ALT-RIGHT AND RELATED SUBJECTS
Compiled by Lucy Maness Warner
August 26, 2016


At the end of this Blog, I have put three related Wikipedia discussions on the New Right for their in-depth information. In between are news articles advancing different viewpoints, as the source of this research. “Alt-Right,” speaks of it as a part of the greater Conservative movement; another concerns a website called Alternative Right; and the last is called “New Right,” an article on New Right groups in a number of different nations and at earlier times. The news articles below cover the Clinton and Trump statements on the Alt-Right political groups.

The political viewpoints all have several things in common, especially a hatred of multi-culturalism. Since 9/11, the fear of radical Islamic groups is leading the pack toward a condition of what seems to me to be hysteria. That’s very dangerous, and the same scapegoats are still being targeted today. Nothing changes, it seems, except that now Islamic refugee groups are also in the line of fire.

Unfortunately for the more populous and more intolerant groups, the US is a supremely multicultural society with a huge population, and these “anti-everybody” people are not going to see a situation in which they are in full control -- unless they do actually, by force, by the power of the vote, or by intrigue insinuate themselves into the power levels of the American government. As ultra-conservatives, they will probably remain a vocal dissenting group against human gentleness, but probably will not be successful in creating a military takeover UNLESS our overly comfortable Middle Class fails to see the danger SOON and votes them into power at all levels. In my opinion that is their plan, and they are too close to succeeding in it for my personal comfort.

At this point, most ultra-conservative thinkers are over 50 and not college educated, but the young ones are too often self-absorbed rather than politically active. The group behind Sanders this year show a trend that does give me hope for the future. The young college graduates are usually more left-leaning, both economically and socially. That, I hope, means that the society will move toward the left more than the right over the next century.

If we do succeed in getting more and more of our citizens into college and trained for reasonably well-paying jobs, that will really help our situation. The fact is that a liberal arts college education tends to produce more liberals than conservatives, a gentler brand of Christianity than what I’m seeing lately, and a voting group who care about ALL PEOPLE rather than merely themselves and other Whites. The thing that keeps popping up among the self-avowed “conservatives” is that strong strain of “MEism.”

Some choose to call that Capitalism. I think it’s just a profound lack of concern for the needy, weaker, more naïve, the socially and religiously “different” individuals, and other forms of prey in our increasingly dangerous society. I include in that group the homeless, the mentally ill, the imprisoned, and other “unattractive” and “unsuccessful” groups. There are people even today who would like to see such people literally exterminated, as in 1939. My hope for the future is for our Bernie followers and other Progressives to unite in a connected and committed group to raise the living wage across the board and produce people who prefer to THINK as well as shoot guns and watch football. Football’s fine, but it won’t solve our society’s problems.

Finally, if there is to be a “race war,” as some of these people seem to be anticipating with a shocking level of glee, I think it will probably be piecemeal and localized at most. There’s a lot of Yahooism going on, but it doesn’t represent the sane and decent people who live scattered out across the country. A bunch of “militiamen” may be able to take over (gasp!) a national park, but that will not succeed in most places, and if White Supremacists do try to go into Black city neighborhoods and start trouble there, I believe they will get some real competition. Riding your horses around dressed in sheets may work in the rural parts of the country, but don’t try that in the Inner City.

Parts of the American South and West could POSSIBLY move toward that direction, but there are lots of moderate, intelligent and decent citizens of both the major parties, all races and religions, as well as the more amorphous group of Independents, who all still prize our democratic goals and ideals over the joys of bloodlust.

Sane and good people actually don’t want the world to degenerate into a new feudalism, but rather to continue toward becoming a full CIVILIZATION, with an acceptable lifestyle for all rather than merely for the wealthy, Christian and White. WE ARE AT A TURNING POINT, and a time of great danger for our society. I’ve never before felt such societal tensions as we have now. I hope I don’t see the end of the America that I know and love, but I actually have a good deal of hope. “God Bless America” is a sentiment that rings true with most of us, I think. That’s why I keep collecting these news articles and talking about issues. I care, and I believe in the national consensus. I also believe in voting to protect us all, by which I mean casting my ballot for the Democrat, even if it isn’t Bernie Sanders. I can’t wait for November.




ALT-RIGHT -- SHE SAYS, HE SAYS


http://www.cbsnews.com/news/elections-2016-hillary-clinton-to-take-on-donald-trump-alt-right-supporters/

Clinton to take on Trump's controversial cheering squad -- the "alt-right"
CBS NEWS
August 25, 2016, 7:03 AM

Video -- CBS News


Hillary Clinton plans to say more about Donald Trump and what she calls “a hate movement.” She’s also blasting a report on her State Department meetings with Clinton Foundation donors. Clinton said her work as secretary of state “was not influenced by any outside forces.”

“There is a lot of smoke, and there is no fire,” Clinton said in a phone call to CNN.

She also said her meetings with humanitarians like Melinda Gates and Elie Wiesel had nothing to do with their donations to her family charity, the Clinton Foundation.

“That is absurd. These are people I was proud to meet with,” Clinton said Wednesday night.

In Atlanta, Georgia, former President Bill Clinton argued the foundation was being targeted unfairly.

“If there’s something wrong with creating jobs and saving lives, I don’t know what it is,” he said.

His wife will try to turn the focus back to Trump Thursday by taking on one of his most controversial cheering squads – the “alt-right,” or the “alternative right.” Active online, the alt-right call Trump “the emperor,” hailing his talk of a deportation force.

“The alt-right is sort of an amorphous nebulous internet world of white ethno-nationalists,” said Daily Beast’s Betsy Woodruff, who has been writing about the alt-right for two years.

But the movement suddenly pierced the public consciousness last week. One media commentator said they come off as “sexist, racist and anti-Semitic.”

The trigger was Trump’s decision to make Breitbart chairman Steve Bannon his new campaign CEO. Under Bannon’s leadership, the conservative website has become what he called “the platform for the alt-right,” highlighting crimes committed by immigrants and criticized for anti-Muslim sentiments.

“Is Donald Trump a member of the alt-right?” Cordes asked.

“They see him as a very admirable leader; they really like him,” Woodruff said. “They see Trump as someone whose policies would be good for whites.”

Clinton’s speech is all about sending a message to wavering Republicans that Trump is not quite one of them. She’s even giving the speech in Reno, Nevada, a city that leans Republican in a battleground state.



http://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-campaign-manager-campaign-not-at-all-a-platform-for-alt-right/

Trump campaign manager: Campaign "not at all" a platform for alt-right
By REENA FLORES CBS NEWS
August 25, 2016, 8:19 AM

Play VIDEO -- Trump gets personal with "bigot" insult against Clinton


Kellyanne Conway, Donald Trump’s campaign manager, is denying that her candidate has any connections to the so-called “alt-right” political philosophy, pushing back on the issue after Hillary Clinton announced Wednesday that she would be focusing her Reno speech on Trump’s ties to the white nationalist movement.

When asked by “CBS This Morning” co-host Anthony Mason on Thursday whether the Trump campaign was a platform for the “alt-right,” a philosophy that his its roots in white identity politics, Conway answered: “No, not at all.”

“We’ve never even discussed it internally,” she added. “It certainly isn’t a part of our strategy meetings. It’s nothing that Mr. Trump says out on the stump.”

Conway also said she was “not that familiar with” the philosophy, though Trump’s new CEO, Breitbart executive Steve Bannon, is notorious for fanning the flames of the movement while running his conservative news site.

Instead, Conway blasted Clinton for her plans to discuss the fringe philosophy in her Nevada speech Thursday.

“I’m just confounded that this is what Secretary Clinton is actually going to tell the American people after she’s so scarce. No press conference in 263 days. Very few interviews,” she said. “Why isn’t she out there, Norah, talking about her vision for next steps after Obamacare... Why don’t we actually know her immigration plan very well?”

“We just feel at the Trump campaign that the voters deserve and expect a conversation on substantive issues that they talk about around kitchen tables and cappuccino counters,” she added..

Clinton has, in the past, given several speeches on policy issues, outlining her proposals on immigration, health care, the economy and energy. Her most recent speech last week in Cleveland highlighted an economic plan focused on investing in manufacturing, clean energy, and infrastructure jobs.

When Conway was asked whether it was substantive for Trump to call Clinton a “bigot” -- a label he attached to the Democratic nominee at a rally in Jackson, Mississippi Wednesday -- she fired back that “people get away with calling him everything in the book.”

“She’s going to call him that today,” Conway said of Clinton. “She’s going to call him worse and everybody’s going to cover it like it’s news.”

The Trump campaign manager also attempted to clarify her candidate’s stance, adding that “what he is saying is her policies and the policies of many in her party...have not helped people of color.”

In recent days, the billionaire business mogul has made a concerted effort towards addressing minority voters in speeches and rallies. Conway told CBS News in another off-camera interview that the campaign is working on scheduling an immigration speech. And on Wednesday, Trump appealed to African Americans in Jackson by promising that “you’re not going to be shot” anymore in black neighborhoods if he were president.

Conway acknowledged in her Thursday interview that Trump lags in minority support, but said the candidate was working hard to address those issues.

Pointing to recent discussions like the one Trump had Saturday with Hispanic community leaders about immigration and economic policies, Conway said: “We need to earn those votes.”



First, some comments about JARED TAYLOR from Wikipedia. Who is he?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Taylor

Jared Taylor
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Samuel Jared Taylor (born September 15, 1951) is an American white nationalist who is the founder and editor of American Renaissance, an online magazine often described as a white supremacist publication. Taylor is also an author and the president of American Renaissance's parent organization, New Century Foundation, through which many of his books have been published. He is a board member and spokesperson of the Council of Conservative Citizens,[1][2] and a former member of the advisory board of The Occidental Quarterly. He is also a former director of the National Policy Institute, a Virginia-based white nationalist think tank.[3]

Taylor, and many of the organizations he is associated with, are often described as promoting racist ideologies by, among others, civil rights groups, news media and academics studying racism in the US.[4][5][6][7][8][9]

Early life[edit]

Taylor was born on September 15, 1951 to Christian missionary parents in Kobe, Japan. He lived in Japan until he was 16 years old and attended Japanese public school up to the age of 12, becoming fluent in Japanese in the process.[10] He graduated from Yale University in 1973 with a BA in philosophy.[11]

Career[edit]

Taylor worked as a news editor at the Washington Post from 1974 to 1975. Following that, he spent three years on a MA in international economics at the Paris Institute of Political Studies, graduating in 1978. He worked as an international lending officer for the Manufacturers Hanover Corporation from 1978 to 1981, and as West Coast editor of PC Magazine from 1983 to 1988.[12] He also worked in West Africa, and has traveled the area extensively.[10] Taylor is fluent in French, Japanese and English and has taught Japanese at Harvard University.[13][14] He also worked as a courtroom translator.[11]

He authored Shadows of the Rising Sun: A Critical View of the Japanese Miracle (1983), in which he wrote that Japan was not an appropriate economic or social model for the United States, and criticized the Japanese for excessive preoccupation with their own uniqueness.

In 1990 he published the first issue of the American Renaissance periodical, and later founded the New Century Foundation to help with the running of American Renaissance.[15]

Taylor first turned to race in Paved With Good Intentions: The Failure of Race Relations in Contemporary America (1992),[16] in which he argued that racism is no longer a convincing excuse for high black rates of crime, poverty, and academic failure. He also edited The Real American Dilemma: Race, Immigration, and the Future of America, (1998).[17] On May 3, 2011, The New Century Foundation released Jared Taylor's sequel to Paved With Good Intentions: The Failure of Race Relations in Contemporary America entitled White Identity: Racial Consciousness in the 21st Century.

Taylor supervised preparation of the New Century Foundation monograph, The Color of Crime (1998, 2005), which observes that blacks and Hispanics commit violent crimes at considerably higher rates than whites, and that whites commit violent crimes at higher rates than Asians.[18] He is the main contributor to a collection of articles from American Renaissance magazine called A Race Against Time: Racial Heresies for the 21st Century, (2003)[19] and editor of a collection of essays by the late Samuel Francis entitled Essential Writings on Race, (2007).[20]

Taylor authored Face to Face with Race (2014), in which he stated that racial differences are real and innate.[21]

Views[edit]

Taylor has been described as a white nationalist, white supremacist and racist by various sources.[22][23][24] Taylor has "strenuously rejected"[10] being called a racist, arguing that he is instead a "racialist who believes in race-realism."[25][26] He has also said he is not a white supremacist, describing himself as a "white advocate,"[27] and contends that his views on nationality and race are "moderate, commonsensical, and fully consistent with the views of most of the great statesmen and presidents of America's past."[10]

Taylor believes that white people have their own racial interests, and that it is intellectually valid for them to protect these interests; he sees it as anomalous that non-Hispanic whites have allowed people of other races to organize themselves politically while not doing so themselves.[28] His journal American Renaissance was founded to provide such a voice for white interests.[29]

Taylor has summarized the basis for his views in the following terms:

Race is an important aspect of individual and group identity. Of all the fault lines that divide society—language, religion, class, ideology—it is the most prominent and divisive. Race and racial conflict are at the heart of the most serious challenges the Western World faces in the 21st century... Attempts to gloss over the significance of race or even to deny its reality only make problems worse.[30]

He has questioned the capacity of blacks to live successfully in a civilized society. In an article on the chaos in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, Taylor wrote "when blacks are left entirely to their own devices, Western Civilization—any kind of civilization—disappears. And in a crisis, civilization disappears overnight."[31] Taylor believes in a general correlation between race and intelligence, where blacks are generally less intelligent than whites, and whites are generally less intelligent than East Asians, as expressed in the controversial book The Bell Curve. Taylor has said in an interview:

I think Asians are objectively superior to Whites by just about any measure that you can come up with in terms of what are the ingredients for a successful society. This doesn't mean that I want America to become Asian. I think every people has a right to be itself, and this becomes clear whether we're talking about Irian Jaya or Tibet, for that matter.[32]

In a speech delivered on May 28, 2005, to the British self-determination group, Sovereignty, Taylor said of his personal feelings to interracial marriages, "I want my grandchildren to look like my grandparents. I don't want them to look like Anwar Sadat or Fu Manchu or Whoopi Goldberg."[33]

Taylor has gone on to say that "people in general if left to themselves will generally sort themselves out by race," and has said that churches, schools, and neighborhoods are examples of this.

On immigration[edit]

Taylor has also given support to Hans-Hermann Hoppe's attempts to persuade libertarians to oppose immigration; he generally approves of Hoppe's work, although he sees the pursuit of a society with no government at all to be "the sort of experiment one might prefer to watch in a foreign country before attempting it oneself."[34]

On Judaism and anti-Semitism[edit]

The SPLC notes that Taylor is unusual among far-right activists in "his lack of anti-Semitism",[35] although at times American Renaissance has welcomed neo-Nazis and Holocaust deniers as contributors and participants.[35] Describing his follower's views, Taylor has said:

Racially conscious whites tend to be suspicious of Jews for two reasons. First, Jews have been prominent in the effort to demonize any sense of white identity. Second, Zionist Jews support an ethnostate for Jews -- Israel -- while they generally promote diversity for America and Europe. This is annoying, but understandable for historical reasons.[36]

On Donald Trump[edit]

Taylor is a supporter of Donald Trump's presidential campaign, and has recorded robocalls to support Trump before the Iowa caucus and New Hampshire primary.[37][38]

Reception[edit]

<i>The Southern Poverty Law Center describes Taylor as "a courtly presenter of ideas that most would describe as crudely white supremacist — a kind of modern-day version of the refined but racist colonialist of old."[35]

Mark Potok and Heidi Beirich, writers in the Intelligence Report (a publication of the Southern Poverty Law Center), has written that "Jared Taylor is the cultivated, cosmopolitan face of white supremacy. He is the guy who is providing the intellectual heft, in effect, to modern-day Klansmen." They have also stated that "American Renaissance has become increasingly important over the years, bringing a measure of intellectualism and seriousness to the typically thug-dominated world of white supremacy."[39]

A 2005 feature in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette described Taylor as "a racist in the guise of expert."[4]

His online magazine, American Renaissance, has been described as a white supremacist publication and a "forum for writers disparaging the abilities of minorities."[40]

Conservative author and former National Review contributor John Derbyshire, while not condoning all of Taylor's work, has said that Taylor is a "polite and good-natured man;" a "dissident" whose opinions "violate tribal taboos."[41]

David Horowitz, the editor of FrontPage Magazine, has said of Taylor that he is "a very intelligent and principled man", and "a very smart and gutsy individualist, but he is also a man who has surrendered to the multicultural miasma that has overtaken this nation and is busily building a movement devoted to white identity and community. We do not share these agendas. What I mean by 'surrendering' is that Taylor has accepted the idea that the multiculturalists have won."[42]



COMMENTARY ON TAYLOR: When intelligent, powerful and well-educated people use their gifts to become predators among humankind, is it justifiable for me to call such people “innately evil?” If we are to have any decency in the world, we have to induce the gentler emotions and concepts into the fore by appropriate education and thought. That is the kind of thinking that the Christian Religion began as – a correcting influence on our natural bestiality. Unfortunately, WEALTH AND POWER have driven the kindliness and gentleness out of Christianity and produced just another argument for WHITE POWER. How discouraging! LMW




https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/aug/26/jared-taylor-alt-right-clinton-trump

'The races are not equal': meet the alt-right leader in Clinton's campaign ad

Jared Taylor, a self-proclaimed ‘race realist’, distanced Trump from the alt-right, the racially divisive fringe movement Clinton denounced in a recent speech

Jason Wilson
@jason_a_w
Friday 26 August 2016 13.25 EDT

Photograph -- Jared Taylor: ‘Races are different. Some races are better at some things than others.’ Photograph: The Washington Post/Getty Images
Related: Live Hillary Clinton denies foundation donors' influence – campaign live


Jared Taylor was prominently featured in a Hillary Clinton campaign ad released ahead of her speech denouncing the “alt-right” in Reno on Thursday and “appreciates” the Democratic presidential nominee for “calling attention to the message I have for America”.

The self-described “race realist” is unrepentant in embracing the label and expounding his views. He founded the alt-right American Renaissance website 25 years ago, which started as a print monthly to emphasize race as society’s most “prominent and divisive” fault line, and that mainstream politics and media tries to “gloss over” the issue.

‘A sense that white identity is under attack’: making sense of the alt-right

Clinton has attacked Trump’s associations with the alt-right, describing it as a “a fringe element that has taken over the Republican party”.

Taylor said her speech was “a typical lefty campaign ploy”, and maintained Trump is not a part of the movement. “Is Hillary Clinton responsible for the views of everyone who supports her?” he asked.

Asked to define what the diffuse alt-right stands for, Taylor said there were “areas of disagreement”, but that “the central element of the alt-right is the position it takes on race.”

That position, until recently, would have been clearly beyond the pale of presidential politics, and rejected by liberals and mainstream conservatives alike. Now, Taylor sees an opportunity to further proselytise his views. He does not think Trump is solely responsible for the alleged growth of the alt-right. But, “it is encouraging because here we have a candidate for president who is saying some things that we have been saying for years”.

Principally, their common ground with Trump is on immigration policy – deportations, the repeal of birthright citizenship and Trump raising the “question of why we need more Muslims in this country”.

Clinton said ‘outside forces’ did not affect policy decisions as secretary of state; Stephen Bannon’s empty Florida home and domestic violence charges revealed

For Taylor, and other members of the alt-right, race is an inescapable biological fact, which has consequences. “The races are not equal and equivalent. If a nation changes demographically, its society will change,” he said.

In her speech, Clinton cited the US Olympic team as an example of strength in diversity. Taylor uses it as an example of the different capacities and abilities of races. He argues that while black people are good athletes, whites and Asians have higher IQs, offering a form of the “scientific racism” that was widely discredited, and denounced by the UN after the second world war.

“Races are different. Some races are better at some things than others”, he said.

Taylor also sees the racial separatism he strives for as a matter of “freedom of association”, and denies that the alt-right is a hate movement, as Clinton has claimed.

“If a white person says, ‘I like being white, and I prefer my associates to be white’, that’s hate? Why?” he said. “It should not be taboo to talk about these things.”

Political scientist George Hawley, who authored a book on the crisis of mainstream conservatism in the face of the challenge of the far right, said that until recently, mainstream conservatives were partly responsible for enforcing whatever taboos existed on this kind of open racial language and thinking.

“The mainstream conservative movement has never wanted any kind of formal relationship with Taylor or his organisation. In fact, an association with American Renaissance could be damaging to a conservative’s career.”

This enmity is mutual. Taylor said: “Mainstream conservatives have completely conceded the question of race, at the cost of their own political fortunes.”

Taylor has been a presence on the racially motivated fringes of the right for more than a quarter of a century, following the founding of his New Century Foundation in 1990, and American Renaissance in 1991. In articles – many written by Taylor – at events and in podcasts, the website stresses white people are discriminated against, black people are inclined to crime and mainstream conservatives who deny these assertions this are culpable and headed for disaster.

According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Taylor’s career has involved lending a “pseudo-academic polish” to racial thought. He presents as urbane: he is a trilingual Yale graduate, and his work has mainly involved producing “research” that backs up his positions on race.

His influence can be seen in the alt-right Twitter accounts that brandish IQ tables and selective crime statistics to bolster their arguments on race.

He has not only adopted the alt-right tag, first coined by white nationalist Richard Spencer, but also their online methods. In addition to the website, he is active on Twitter, and acts as a moderator on alt-right subreddits*1.

Chip Berlet, a veteran researcher of the far right, finds the mainstreaming of Taylor’s views concerning, even if Trump loses the election.

“The problem is not that they will take state power, because they almost never do. The problem is that in the course of this social movement, in action and propaganda, they target scapegoated groups of people who become victims of violence,” said Berlet.

While the Republican presidential nominee has apparently softened his stance on immigration as of this week, Taylor said, “Mr Trump speaks in elliptical phrases that sometimes make it hard to pin him down. At this point all talk about ‘softening’ seems to be speculation. I will wait until he gives that postponed speech on immigration policy.”

Berlet, too, is unconvinced and called it an insincere pivot to recover lost ground. But even if it were, it could not remedy Trump’s actions in helping bring figures like Taylor to prominence.

“He can’t undo the damage he’s done. The antagonisms he’s bred will be longstanding, and will be apparent well beyond the election,” said Berlet.



*1 https://www.google.com/?ion=1&espv=2#q=subreddits%20meaning

“Reddit entries are organized into areas of interest called "subreddits". Historically, the front page was the "main reddit", and other areas were "subreddits". There is now no main subreddit. Instead, there are multiple default subreddits dealing with topics such as books, television, and music.”


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reddit

Reddit
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Reddit (stylized as reddit, /ˈrɛdɪt/)[5] is a social media and social news aggregation, web content rating and discussion website.

Reddit's registered community members can submit content, such as text posts or direct links. Registered users can then vote submissions up or down to organize the posts and determine their position on the site's pages. The submissions with the most positive votes appear on the main page or the top of a category. Content entries are organized by areas of interest called "subreddits". The subreddit topics include news, science, gaming, movies, music, books, fitness, food, and image-sharing, among many others.

As of 2016, Reddit had 542 million monthly visitors (234 million unique users), ranking #11 most visited web-site in US and #25 in the world.[6] Across 2015, Reddit saw 82.54 billion pageviews, 73.15 million submissions, 725.85 million comments, and 6.89 billion upvotes from its users.[7]

Reddit was founded by University of Virginia roommates Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian in 2005. Condé Nast Publications acquired the site in October 2006. Reddit became a direct subsidiary of Condé Nast's parent company, Advance Publications, in September 2011. As of August 2012, Reddit operates as an independent entity, although Advance is still its largest shareholder.[8] Reddit is based in San Francisco, California. In October 2014 Reddit raised $50 million in a funding round led by Sam Altman and including investors Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel, Ron Conway, Snoop Dogg and Jared Leto.[9] Their investment saw the company valued at $500 million.[10][11]


https://www.reddit.com/wiki/faq#wiki_what_does_the_name_.22reddit.22_mean.3F

What does the name "reddit" mean?

“It's (sort of) a play on words -- i.e., "I read it on reddit." Also, there are some unintentional but interesting Latin meanings to the word "reddit". Details here.”

[NOTE: There is no etymology Latin or otherwise worth looking at. Reddit is just modern, exuberant, youthful gibberish of the sort that I tend to hate. This, however, is kind of cute. In other words, I was hoping to find a real word derivation somewhere, but there isn’t, so FI. LMW.]




Alt-Right, Alternative Right, and New Right


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt-right

Alt-right
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


The alt-right is a segment of right-wing ideologies presented as an alternative to mainstream conservatism in the United States.[1] The alt-right has been described as a movement unified by support for Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump,[2][3][4] as well as opposition to multiculturalism and immigration.[5][6]

The alt-right has no official ideology, but various sources have described it as a loosely-defined conservative movement that is associated with white nationalism,[6][7][8] white supremacism,[2][6][9][10] antisemitism,[2][6][11][8] right-wing populism,[12][13] nativism,[14] and the neoreactionary movement.[1][15][16]

The alt-right has been said to be a largely online movement with Internet memes widely used to advance or express its beliefs, often on websites such as 4chan.[2][9][11][17][18]

Etymology

In November 2008, Paul Gottfried addressed the H. L. Mencken Club about what he called "the alternative right".[19][20] In 2009, two more posts at Taki's Magazine, by Patrick J. Ford and Jack Hunter, further discussed the alternative right.[21][22] The term's modern usage, however, is most commonly attributed to white nationalist and self-described "identitarian" Richard B. Spencer, president of the National Policy Institute and founder of Alternative Right.[12][23]

Beliefs

The alt-right lacks an official ideology, with the Associated Press stating that there is "no one way to define its ideology"[24] and it has been described as an "amorphous movement"[25] by the BBC. The alt-right has been said to be composed of elements of white nationalism,[6][7][8] white supremacism[2][6][9][10] and antisemitism.[2][6][11][8] It has also been linked to right-wing populism,[12][13] nativism,[14] and the neoreactionary movement.[1][15][16] An opposition to political correctness has also been described as a trend among the alt-right.[6]

Discussing the origins of Donald Trump's support, Jeet Heer of The New Republic identified the alt-right as having ideological origins among paleoconservatives, particularly with respect to restricting immigration and supporting a more openly nationalistic foreign policy.[26] Newsday columnist Cathy Young also noted the alt-right's strong opposition to both legal and illegal immigration and its hard-line stance on the European migrant crisis.[6] Robert Tracinski of The Federalist stated that the alt-right opposes miscegenation and advocates "hard-core" collectivism as well as tribalism.[27]

Commonalities shared across the otherwise loosely defined alt-right include a disdain for mainstream politics and support for Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.[3][4][12]

Use of memes

The alt-right's use of Internet memes to advance or express its beliefs, often on websites such as 4chan, has been widely reported.[2][9][11][17][18] Adherents of the ideology have, for instance, been credited for originating the term cuckservative, a portmanteau of cuckold and conservative.[1][11][28] Another example is the use of triple parentheses or "echoes" to identify and target Jews online, which originated on the blog The Right Stuff.[2][7][11][29] The prevalence of memes in alt-right circles has led some commentators to question whether the alt-right is a serious movement rather than just an alternative way to express traditionally conservative beliefs.[12][9][11]

Reaction

Although some conservatives have welcomed the alt-right, others on the mainstream right and left have criticized it as racist or hateful,[6][30] particularly given its overt hostility to mainstream conservatism and the Republican Party.[1]

David A. French, writing for National Review, called alt-right proponents "wanna-be fascists" and bemoaned their entry into the national political conversation.[31]

Benjamin Welton, writing for The Weekly Standard, described the group as a "highly heterogeneous force" that refuses to "concede the moral high ground to the left."[1]

Benjamin Wallace-Wells, writing for The New Yorker, described it as a "loosely assembled far-right movement," but said that its differences from the conventional right-wing in American politics was more a matter of style than substance: "One way to understand the alt-right is not as a movement but as a collective experiment in identity, in the same way that many people use anonymity on the Internet to test more extreme versions of themselves."[12]

Professor George Hawley of the University of Alabama suggested that the alt-right may pose a greater threat to progressivism than the mainstream conservative movement.[32]

Commentary

Jared Taylor (pictured) has been mentioned as an intellectual representative of the alt-right.[33]

In National Review, Ian Tuttle wrote, "The Alt-Right has evangelized over the last several months primarily via a racist and antisemitic online presence. But for Allum Bokhari and Milo Yiannopoulos, the Alt-Right consists of fun-loving provocateurs, valiant defenders of Western civilization, daring intellectuals—and a handful of neo-Nazis keen on a Final Solution 2.0, but there are only a few of them, and nobody likes them anyways."[33] Bokhari and Yiannopoulos describe Jared Taylor, founder of American Renaissance, and Richard B. Spencer, founder of Alternative Right, as representative of intellectuals in the alt-right.[33][34] Cathy Young, writing in The Federalist, stated that the website RadixJournal had replaced the Alternative Right website, and describes a RadixJournal article on abortion which proclaimed that the pro-life position is "'dysgenic,' since it encourages breeding by 'the least intelligent and responsible' women."[35]

Cathy Young, writing in Newsday, called the alt-right "a nest of anti-Semitism" inhabited by "white supremacists" who regularly use "repulsive bigotry".[6] Chris Hayes on All In with Chris Hayes described alt-right as a euphemistic term for "essentially modern-day white supremacy."[36] BuzzFeed reporter Rosie Gray described the alt-right as "white supremacy perfectly tailored for our times," saying that it uses "aggressive rhetoric and outright racial and anti-Semitic slurs" and that it has "more in common with European far-right movements than American ones."[37] Yishai Schwartz, writing for Haaretz, described the alt-right as "vitriolically anti-Semitic," saying that "The 'alternative' that the alt-right presents is, in large part, an alternative to acceptance of Jews," and warned that it must be taken seriously as a threat.[16]

According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, Breitbart News has become a popular outlet for alt-right views.[38]

On August 25, 2016, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton devoted a speech to denouncing the alt-right and linking it to the Donald Trump's presidential campaign.[39]


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Welton, Benjamin (2016-02-01). "What, Exactly, is the 'Alternative Right?'". The Weekly Standard. Retrieved 2016-02-05.
^ Ohlheiser, Abby (June 3, 2016). "Anti-Semitic Trump supporters made a giant list of people to target with a racist meme". The Washington Post.
^ Betsy Woodruff. "Rush Limbaugh's Favorite New White-Power Group". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 2016-02-05.
^ Oliver Darcy (2016-01-20). "GOP Strategist Under Fire After Giving This Vulgar Description of Trump's 'Alt-Right' Fans on MSNBC | Video". TheBlaze.com. Retrieved 2016-02-05.
^ Gregory Krieg (August 25, 2016). "Clinton is attacking the 'Alt-Right' -- What is it?". CNN. Retrieved August 25, 2016.
^ Cathy Young (2016-01-25). "Donald Trump's rant against political correctness is comfort food to racists". Newsday. Retrieved 2016-02-05.
^ Yglesias, Matthew (June 6, 2016). "The (((echo))), explained". Vox.
^ Tierney McAfee (August 25, 2016). "What Is the Alt-Right Anyway? A User's Guide". People. Retrieved August 25, 2016.
^ Dylan Matthews (April 18, 2016). "The alt-right is more than warmed-over white supremacy. It's that, but way way weirder.". VOX. Retrieved June 7, 2016.
^ Benjy Sarlin (August 25, 2016). "5 Things to Know About the 'Alt-Right'". NBC News. Retrieved August 25, 2016.
Hess, Amanda (June 10, 2016). "For the Alt-Right, the Message Is in the Punctuation". The New York Times.
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Alternative Right is an Identitarian website created by Richard Spencer and Colin Liddell in ... Kain's contention at True/Slant, that "the far-right-wingers at Alternative Right represent the ugly – and yes racist – underbelly of 'alt' conservatism.

Alternative Right is an Identitarian website created by Richard Spencer and Colin Liddell[1][2] in 2010 and to the later "New Alternative Right" webzine, edited by Liddell and Andy Nowicki, that was created when the first website was shut down in 2013.[3][4] Richard Spencer's Alternative Right was hosted at AlternativeRight.com and funded by NPI America before Spencer shut it down, saying it was too much work to manage.[5]

The site's white nationalist stance has attracted criticism from the Anti-Defamation League[6] and it has been described by The Atlantic of being a "white supremacist" site.[7]

In 2012, Alternative Right published an article entitled "Is Black Genocide Right?"[8] It stated that the black race "has contributed almost nothing to the pool of civilization" and asked "whether Black Genocide is something worth considering"; after drawing widespread criticism, the article was deleted from the site.[9]

In May 2013, Yahoo! News reported that Jason Richwine, then a scholar at the Heritage Foundation and co-author of a controversial study on the costs of amnesty, had published an article and blog at AlternativeRight.com in 2010. The Rachel Maddow Show publicized these findings in a segment of the program on May 9, 2013.[10]

In July 2015, Stephanie Saul of The New York Times interviewed Colin Liddell about the Alternative Right.[11]




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New Right
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For the European New Right, see Nouvelle Droite. For the right-wing movement which includes ideologies that are an alternative to mainstream conservatism, see Alt-right. For the British national-anarchist group of this name, see New Right (UK). For the Georgian liberal conservative party, see New Right (Georgia). For the former Dutch party, see New Right (Netherlands).

New Right is used in several countries as a descriptive term for various policies or groups that are right-wing. It has also been used to describe the emergence of Eastern European parties after the collapse of the Soviet Union and systems using Soviet-style communism.[1]

United States[edit]

Main article: Conservatism in the United States
In the United States, New Right refers to two historically distinct conservative political movements,[12]:624–625 and currently the alt-right movement which includes right-wing ideologies that are an alternative to mainstream American conservatism.[13] These American New Rights are distinct from and opposed to the more moderate tradition of the so-called Rockefeller Republicans. The New Right also differs from the Old Right (1933–1955) on issues concerning foreign policy with neoconservatives being opposed to the non-interventionism of the Old Right.[12]:625

First New Right[edit]

The first New Right (1955–1964) was centered around the libertarians, traditionalists, and anti-communists at William F. Buckley's National Review.[12]:624 Sociologists and journalists had used new right since the 1950s; it was first used as self-identification in 1962 by the student activist group Young Americans for Freedom.[14]

The first New Right embraced "fusionism" (classical liberal economics, traditional social values, and an ardent anti-communism)[12]:338–641 and coalesced through grassroots organizing in the years preceding the 1964 presidential campaign of Barry Goldwater. The Goldwater campaign, though failing to unseat incumbent President Lyndon B. Johnson, galvanized the formation of a new political movement.

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First New Right figures:

William F. Buckley, Jr. – editor of National Review
Frank Meyer – anti-communist libertarian and creator of the "fusionist" political theory
James Burnham – anti-communist political theorist
M. Stanton Evans – journalist and writer of Young Americans for Freedom's Sharon Statement
Barry Goldwater – U.S. Senator from Arizona and Republican U.S. presidential candidate


Second New Right[edit]

The second New Right (1964 to the present) was formed in the wake of the Goldwater campaign and had a more populist tone than the first New Right. The second New Right tended to focus on social issues and national sovereignty (such as the Panama Canal Treaty) and was often linked with the Religious Right.[15] The second New Right formed a policy approach and electoral apparatus that brought Ronald Reagan into the White House in the 1980 presidential election. The New Right was organized in the American Enterprise Institute and The Heritage Foundation to counter the liberal establishment. In elite think tanks and local community organizations alike, new policies, marketing strategies, and electoral strategies were crafted over the succeeding decades to promote strongly conservative policies.[16] It was mostly ignored by scholars until the late 1980s, but the formation of the New Right is now one of the fastest-growing areas of historical research.

Alt-right[edit]

Main article: Alt-right

The alt-right is a right-wing to far right movement of ideologies that are an alternative to mainstream conservatism.[17][18] It has "more in common with European far-right movements than American ones"[13] and is unified by nationalism,[19] opposition to multiculturalism and immigration, rejection of egalitarianism,[13][20] and support for Donald Trump.[13][21][22] The alt-right includes beliefs such as neoreaction, monarchism, nativism, populism, fascism,[17] racialism, identitarianism, white nationalism, white supremacy, and Southern-secessionism.[13] The term was introduced by Richard Spencer's AlternativeRight.com in 2010, gained prominence in 2015 after being identified by critics, and became more popular in 2016 after being mentioned on television.[13][21][23] Proponents are said[by whom?] to use culture jamming and memes to promote their ideas. One leading proponent records parodies of Disney songs (such as I'll Make A Man Out Of You from Mulan) "with their discussions of white supremacy and generally racist and sexist lyrics". Some adherents also refer to themselves as identitarian, and criticize National Review and William F. Buckley for "not openly espousing, among other things, white nationalism, or white identarianism" such as in the video which is titled "The National Review" and is set to the tune of "The Bells of Notre Dame."[24] The alt-right is younger than mainstream conservatism,[13][22][25] and many express anti-Jewish, anti-Semitic and anti-Zionist views.[26]