Reading through the thread, it appears that the term isn’t new, but it also doesn’t have much weight or importance outside of internet political jargon. Its pretty obscure, actually.
My guess is, Hillary only heard the term in the last couple of days. She’s probably got a little cyber crew of millenials trolling the right wing blogosphere, looking for anything she can hang her hat on. They really missed on this one. Her hat’s on the floor.
Shrillarity is getting her talking points from Media Matters. She doesn’t know jack about alt right or anything at all internet related. For heaven’s sake, the woman couldn’t handle a password and had to have all her computer and email stuff openly accessible. She couldn’t even handle logging onto a computer.
She’s probably got a little cyber crew of millenials trolling the right wing blogosphere.
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Bingo!
It seems like it started about a week or two ago, with the shillary media starting to pick up the alt-right = racist tag and run with it.
We’re talking about H Rotten Clinton, who “short circuits” and has brain interruptions over remembering the most basic technical information.
I seriously doubt, like you - that she’s been aware of alt-right until her handlers (medical assistant?) suggested she take on the alt-right & try to tag them as white supremists & racists. Like any group, there are fringes that may fall into that category - but generally not.
One thing I’ve learned about the alt-right, is that many of them have white pride — they say they’re tired of being beat down for being white, that society penalizes white men above all other categories of ppl. THAT is where the “racist” smears come from, because they dare to speak up & defend themselves.