(April 21, 2019 at 3:19 pm)Sal Wrote: You're literally saying that because an alt-righter breathes air, someone else who also breathes air is also alt-right. This is the so-called slippery slope meme, that people are radicalized because they read and watch "soft" alt-right material. People are able to think for themself, you know.
Tell me, do you think the OK hand sign is an alt-right symbol? Because I have bad news for you; so is the pepe, honkler and pepe's many iterations, the thumbs up emoji, shaking hand emoji, etc.
This kind of thinking is exactly what the alt-right wants. For people to concede ground to them, making them more influential - when they're really not. This is what has happened with "classical liberalism" in this instance. The Mises institute has a more reliable definition for "classical liberalism" than what has been given to by the alt-right or dreamt up by the left.
Or...I'm telling you that the guy is part of the alt right pipeline, espousing an ideology which the majority of americans already accept in one form or another. The irony of your question is that, yes...when the alt right takes some gesture and makes a big thing about it to "troll the libs" - it does become a part of their culture, one of their symbols. That's how symbols work.
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