What is the appeal of the alt-right?

[pecksniff]

It's all about the racism of course, racism is the whole point of the movement. But it occurs to me there might be something more to it than that. You look at old clips of the original German Nazis marching in their smart uniforms, and you think, "There is power!" Who wouldn't want some?

 

[Bud_Spencer]

They're racist, Jew-hating creeps. What is this "appeal" you speak of?

 

[pecksniff]

They're racist, Jew-hating creeps. What is this "appeal" you speak of?

Whatever it is that accounts for their apparent numbers.

See The Alt-Right Playbook: How to Radicalize a Normie.

 

[Rightguide]

It's all about the racism of course, racism is the whole point of the movement. But it occurs to me there might be something more to it than that. You look at old clips of the original German Nazis marching in their smart uniforms, and you think, "There is power!" Who wouldn't want some?

What appeal?

 

[Rightguide]

They're racist, Jew-hating creeps. What is this "appeal" you speak of?

Pecksniff must be feeling an affinity for them.

 

[Bud_Spencer]

Whatever it is that accounts for their apparent numbers.

See The Alt-Right Playbook: How to Radicalize a Normie.

I think there are about two dozen of them. Their national convention was in a back room at Shoney's.

 

[Bud_Spencer]

Pecksniff must be feeling an affinity for them.

That's not as far-fetched as you might think:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ev373c7wSRg

 

[phrodeau]

As Trump showed, it’s about ratings, followers and clicks.

 

[pecksniff]

I think there are about two dozen of them. Their national convention was in a back room at Shoney's.

A lot more than that showed up for the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville.

 

[Bud_Spencer]

A lot more than that showed up for the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville.

And a follow-up "rally" in DC had about six show up.

Let's see how you inflate that throng into a menace2society.

 

[StrictMiss]

Losers get some attention. It's Okay to be ugly. And...

they get to be openly racist and blame everyone but themselves for getting fucked by the Republican establishment.

Cannon fodder. Ugly, stupid cannon fodder.

 

[butters]

thirds

around a third of americans opposed most major changes aimed at equality for all

around a third wanted to retain the 'right' to keep slaves and treat darker skinned people as objects

around a third didn't want women to have the vote

same for opposition to the civil rights movement

the views espoused by the alt-right allow the scum who feel the same way to feel validated in their beliefs and victimised by those who don't share them. they relish that sense of power over something, anything, when a lot of them have had little power over their own lives

 

[CornusKousa]

Whatever it is that accounts for their apparent numbers.

See The Alt-Right Playbook: How to Radicalize a Normie.

So you and your video seem to be making the same assumption....that anyone not a hammer and sickle "progressive" is alt-right and radically right wing.

You people are fucking loons.

 

[Bud_Spencer]

So you and your video seem to be making the same assumption....that anyone not a hammer and sickle "progressive" is alt-right and radically right wing.

You people are fucking loons.

Apparently the video isn't working that well. I did check, and there were a whopping 20 alt-right dipshits at the DC Unite the Right hootenanny.

I can't wait for it to be declared an insurrection.

 

[Rightguide]

Here's R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr stopping by to explain "Kultursmog," and the Myth of White Supremacy. Pecksniff will be pleased to learn the truth about the alleged "Alt-Right."

The Mythological White Supremacist
By R. Emmett Tyrrell
July 29, 2021

Washington — We at The American Spectator call it "Kultursmog," and it is the only kind of smog of which our friends on the left approve. Actually, they not only approve of Kultursmog, but they contribute to it. Kultursmog is that aspect of American culture that is utterly politicized, and it is politicized by the politics of the left. Its leading centers of pollution are Hollywood, California; New York City; Washington, D.C., and, increasingly, Silicon Valley. I had hoped that Silicon Valley, with its brave claims to libertarianism, might have escaped the pollutants of Kultursmog, but I was wrong. The lure of virtue flaunting proved too strong for the tycoons of Silicon Valley. Now they are taking it to outer space. Did you see that Jeff Bezos had hardly gotten his feet back on terra firma when he donated $100 million not to the Red Cross, not to the Little Sisters of the Poor, but to Van Jones, who is himself a leading smokestack of Kultursmog over at CNN.

Kultursmog is everywhere. It is in the books we read, the movies we attend, the songs we sing. It does not permeate our history, which is why the woke folk are so intent on tearing down our history, including statues of Abraham Lincoln, George Washington and even Frederick Douglass. Can Martin Luther King Jr. be next?

One of the left's favorite myths is that America is abundant with white supremacists and practitioners of something called the alt-right. I know. I, too, once thought the alt-right was a roadside direction or an indication a detour was ahead, but apparently it has something to do with the politics of a distinctly extremist variety. Advocates of the alt-right apparently tend to congregate at rural gas stations, usually in the dark of night. That is about all I know about it, but the writers at The New York Times claim to be highly agitated over it.

The rest here:

https://www.creators.com/read/r-emmett-tyrrell/07/21/the-mythological-white-supremacist

 

[CornusKousa]

Apparently the video isn't working that well. I did check, and there were a whopping 20 alt-right dipshits at the DC Unite the Right hootenanny.

I can't wait for it to be declared an insurrection.

LOL.... anyone and anything disagreeing with Democrats is going to be an "insurrection" between the mid terms and the general.


Meanwhile...BLM does another 20 billion in damages and looting, kills 180 people, at least 430 hospitalized with everything from beatings to rapes, is a peaceful protest and DON'T YOU DARE say otherwise or you're a fucking Nazi.

 

[ll74]

It's all about the racism of course, racism is the whole point of the movement. But it occurs to me there might be something more to it than that. You look at old clips of the original German Nazis marching in their smart uniforms, and you think, "There is power!" Who wouldn't want some?

Sssh....we don't call it the "alt right" anymore. We call it the Trumpies.

Don't want people to think they're dipshits...do ya???

 

[pecksniff]

Here's R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr . . .

Not much point in reading further, is there?

 

[Rightguide]

Sssh....we don't call it the "alt right" anymore. We call it the Trumpies.

You do because you're dummies and like to lie a lot.

 

[ll74]

You do because you're dummies and like to lie a lot.

I'm not lying about what I call the alt-right. Trumpies is much more fun anyway

 

[Bud_Spencer]

You do because you're dummies and like to lie a lot.

He's right. Words are empty tools for the Left, and they will use whatever is a hand as a weapon. 15-20 years ago, and it's a cinch we'd all be called "neo-cons" because that was the latest trendy salt lick the Left stampeded to at the time.

 

[pecksniff]

The alt-right:

"Well, tough luck, fags. The alt-right is just a euphemism for Nazism."

—The Daily Stormer, actual Nazi website[1]

"By all means, compare these shitheads to the Nazis. Again and again. I'm with you."

—Mike Godwin of Godwin's Law fame, referring to the Unite the Right rally[2]

The alt-right (short for nazi alternative right) is a patriotically correct term for neo-Nazi far-right movement that opposes tolerance, multiculturalism and social justice (items they file under "Cultural Marxism" and "SJW").

The movement is largely internet-based, made up of frustrated late-blooming teens-to-twenty-somethings, and is itself the merger of traditional white nationalists, neo-Nazis, and neo-Confederates overlapping the neoreactionary movement, Gamergate and the manosphere. The alt-right consensus of the day generally rests at the juncture of those three groups. The term originated with Richard Spencer's white nationalist magazine/blog Alternative Right, which was nicknamed "AltRight".

The alt-right wholeheartedly embraces the overt racism, anti-semitism, misogyny, and homophobia typical of neo-Nazi affectations — in Twitter-paced combination with the shitposting, bullying, doxxing, and trolling of 4chan/8chan culture as a lifestyle. You'll find them on /pol/, The Daily Stormer, My Posting Career, Gab, Voat, The Right Stuff, and (most notably) in every unmoderated comment field on any decent website where wholesome and inclusive news reports may go otherwise unprotested.

The frothing vanguard of manufactured outrage, executive producers and core demographic of fake news-driven social media hysteria, perpetually in search of today's new bar for "edgy", they're also the ones who popularized "cuckservative" as a term of abuse for anyone on the right that they consider not racist enough.

Whether they are primarily neoreactionaries who are into white nationalism, or white nationalists dressing their ideas up with neoreactionary jargon, is probably a distinction without a difference. The term "alt-right" has come more generally to signify "Trump supporters who think swastikas are good". In this context, it's just a hip alias for "white supremacists" — with all the extra PR-savvy granted by its plausible deniability for when the need arises.

The Associated Press recommends:[3]

"Whenever "alt-right" is used in a story, be sure to include a definition: "an offshoot of conservatism mixing racism, white nationalism and populism," or, more simply, "a white nationalist movement." Avoid using the term generically and without definition, however, because it is not well known and the term may exist primarily as a public-relations device to make its supporters’ actual beliefs less clear and more acceptable to a broader audience. In the past we have called such beliefs racist, neo-Nazi or white supremacist."

 

[BoyNextDoor]

It's all about the racism of course, racism is the whole point of the movement. But it occurs to me there might be something more to it than that. You look at old clips of the original German Nazis marching in their smart uniforms, and you think, "There is power!" Who wouldn't want some?

It is not about racism. per se. It is about frightened, puerile adults that need to find a way to belong and be told comforting lies.

Skinhead and other violent subculture recruitment targets "normless" youth populations because of their desire for structure, a subcultural solution to their lack of the usual social or ethical standards, and their need for consistent models of authority and masculinity. They have the biggest thing common - downwardly mobile families economically personally or as a majority in their community.

Same thing for the radical right and that is why the racist types also get pulled in. They all need the same thing - the structure and shelters from their fears they get from authoritarians and the "brotherhood" they feel from the association. They all fear that the America they or their parents have grown up with — or their fantastical image of America — is disappearing. Mostly that image is one that is based on straight white male supremacy.

It would be funny if it weren't so sad how that all talk about individualism and how they hate "commies" because they are collective and not individuals, when that is they specifically externalizing and disassociating the very part of themselves they know is their weakness and drives them into these groups. It is their coping mechanism.

so, What is the appeal of the alt-right? It gives these people a way to place blame for their downwardly mobile economic circumstances on someone else, and a clan or brotherhood to belong to and commiserate with.

I mean if there was ever a target rich environment for recruitment is it is right here on these pages starting with Bud, and RightGuide and the rest of them.

 

[Rightguide]

Not much point in reading further, is there?

I have to admit, you're not up to his intellect. This is an article for grown-ups.

 

[CornusKousa]

The alt-right:

So says LeftistWiki.