So I just looked up alt right on youtube to see what the top results would be, and it's mostly bringing up stuff about Richard Spencer and Charlottesville. Obviously I'm not defending those types of people.
Alt right is not one thing. There are many different types of alt right. You have someone like Richard Spencer, who is openly and proudly racist, and then you have the alt-righters that I was thinking of, more of the Steven Crowder, Alex Jones, Gavin McInnes, Ben Shapiro, and Jordan Peterson types. I haven't seen any of these people spew anti-black views, other than when some of them support the drug war. If I saw it, I'd call it out, but I don't see it. Of course, most woke people will equate having issues with BLM or making jokes as making a person just as bad as someone like Richard Spencer, and that's what makes wokeism a religion just like any other.
All alt right means to me is that a person has views that are right wing, but they have some significant differences with establishment republicans. To be alternative to the mainstream right wing doesn't entail that you must be a white separatist or march around chanting that Jews will not replace you, but if being alt right now means that you must go around marching with tiki torches, what do we now call people like Gavin McInnes and Steven Crowder since they apparently can no longer be called alt right? What word should I use for them?
Alt right is not one thing. There are many different types of alt right. You have someone like Richard Spencer, who is openly and proudly racist, and then you have the alt-righters that I was thinking of, more of the Steven Crowder, Alex Jones, Gavin McInnes, Ben Shapiro, and Jordan Peterson types. I haven't seen any of these people spew anti-black views, other than when some of them support the drug war. If I saw it, I'd call it out, but I don't see it. Of course, most woke people will equate having issues with BLM or making jokes as making a person just as bad as someone like Richard Spencer, and that's what makes wokeism a religion just like any other.
All alt right means to me is that a person has views that are right wing, but they have some significant differences with establishment republicans. To be alternative to the mainstream right wing doesn't entail that you must be a white separatist or march around chanting that Jews will not replace you, but if being alt right now means that you must go around marching with tiki torches, what do we now call people like Gavin McInnes and Steven Crowder since they apparently can no longer be called alt right? What word should I use for them?
