(01-27-2017, 02:23 PM)taramarie Wrote:(01-27-2017, 08:23 AM)Warren Dew Wrote:I am curious. In what way do you see the alt right not being evil? This would include the likes of the KKK, neo nazis, white supremacists keep in mind. I am very curious as to what you think about that.(01-27-2017, 12:35 AM)X_4AD_84 Wrote:(01-26-2017, 10:31 PM)SomeGuy Wrote:(01-26-2017, 03:28 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote: You are missing the forest for the trees.
Be careful what you wish for people. You might actually get it.
That's nice, I've heard that one before. Did you catch any more bumper stickers today?
No, I am actually curious: Much of your posting in the nearly 4 years (on and off) I've been posting here has been warmongering for the impending battle with the SCO/Neo-Mongol Empire/<Insert political/historical reference here>. You've mentioned that you've been thinking along similar lines since at least 1999/2000 (Y2K). So, in what way would you say your thinking has changed?
I no longer think liberals are evil. I am now exceedingly tolerant vis a vis social concerns / minority rights / etc. I no longer think globalism is all bad (it just needed reform). I no longer associate with Birchers, League of the South, Skousenites, etc, etc. I don't think it would be wise to fire most of the State Department. So many other things.
As far as I can tell, now you think the alt right is evil. That's not being tolerant; it's just redirecting your intolerances to a different group..
The term "alt-right" was fairly nebulous and basically referred to a grab-bag of political ideologies of the right that were loosely organized on the Internet in the 2000s-2010s. Not just various flavors of white supremacists, but monarchists, Paleocons, religious traditionalists, integralists, libertarians and anarcho-capitalists of various stripes, random kids on 4chan, nationalists, a bunch of different Russian bloggers, etc. Basically everyone who was neither a progressive nor a Republican. When Breitbart was talking about making Breitbart a forum for the AltRight, this is what he was referring to.
During and after the 2016 election, this name was rebranded (out of confusion/political purposes to tar populism with the Nazi brush) to mean specifically white supremacists, and nerdy media whore Richard Spencer welcomed the free publicity (in reality, his "rallies" attracted fewer attendees than the DC convention of grown men who like watching My Little Pony, and the KKK has maybe 3000 members in the entire country, small enough to fit in a single high school). But, because of this, people are now convinced there is a massive white supremacist movement in the country, ensconced in the White House, and taking orders from the Fascist Internationale based out of the Kremlin, when in reality there is simply a surge of populism in Western countries due to dissatisfaction with the status quo (some of it tied to immigration, some to deindustrialization, etc.).
But labeling it a new Axis of Evil sounds cooler.
