News Outlets Rethink Usage of the Term Alt-Right

[EricMaundry]

Source: New York Times

When The Washington Post published a profile last week of Richard B. Spencer, a prominent leader of the so-called alt-right, readers were quick to respond. By Monday, the article had drawn more than 2,600 comments.

Many of them had a similar message. “Please, please stop referring to a white Christian supremacist movement as the ‘alt-right’ — a phrase that sounds like a subgenre of rock music,” one reader wrote.

Another was more pointed: “STOP CALLING THEM ‘ALT-RIGHT.’ THEY ARE RACISTS, WHITE SUPREMICISTS, NAZIS.”

With the election of Donald J. Trump — and his subsequent appointment of Stephen K. Bannon, a former chairman of the right-wing website Breitbart News, as his chief White House strategist — the term alt-right has emerged as a linguistic flash point. Generally deployed by news organizations to describe a far-right, white nationalist movement known for its aggressive online expression, the term has attracted widespread criticism among those, particularly on the left, who say it euphemizes and legitimizes the ideologies of racism, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and white supremacy.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/28/business/media/news-outlets-rethink-usage-of-the-term-alt-right.html?_r=0

[MADem]

1. ONE MORE REC FOR GREATEST PG!!! nt

[Judi Lynn]

2. Good. Thank you. n/t

[Grassy Knoll]

3. I Thought Racism Ended Because Trump Got Elected...

[Raster]

4. alt-Reich...

...so much more honest in the original German.

[JHB]

5. Especially since "alt" is German for "old"

[densan]

6. "Genau"

In German, "Exactly or I agree with you"...

[backscatter712]

7. Never use "alt-right" without using "Nazi" with it.

Alt-right Nazis.
The Nazi alt-right.

Plant that association in people's heads.

[MontanaMama]

8. YES!!!!!!!

Thank you. I've been waiting for this. Howard Dean pulled no punches when referring to Bannon as a Nazi. Strike alt right from our lexicon. Call them as they are...Nazis.

And assholes...we can call them assholes too.

[DK504]

18. Howard Dean

Dean for DNC!!!! He is the guy to stand up to the idiots on the teevee machine.

[Auntie Bush]

20. I'm 100% for Howard Dean.

He can put 100% effort and time into the job that he was definitely good at.

[DonCoquixote]

9. I agree

alt right is an attempt to use the term alt that was associated with alternative music, the new music. These views are OLD, not new at all, and not at all musical.

[alfredo]

10. Just call them White Nationalist.

[Dawson Leery]

11. "Alt Right" is an imperfect term.

Place the word "Nazi" before and it makes sense, "Nazi Alt Right".

[shadowmayor]

12. Time for a list?

Bow tie klan
Alt Reich (I like and use this term)
Racists
White Supremacists
Bigots
Fear mongers

. . .



Trump Supporters

[SDJay]

13. I Just Go With

fucking bigots. Works for me. Succinct. Accurate.

[robbedvoter]

14. NAZI

covers it all. Godwin Law had a good run, but 🍊, killed it

[Nitram]

17. Bigots aren't neccessarily organized, and they don't neccesarily have...

...an ideological agenda.

[kebob]

15. Alt-Wrong!

[Nitram]

16. Great article, excellent point.

[NewJeffCT]

19. If the so-called "alt right" complains

about being labeled Neo-Nazis or White Supremacists, tell them to stop being so sensitive and politically correct.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

22. ha!

[47of74]

23. Works for me

Fuck the alt right, under whatever name you choose to call them.

[Initech]

21. You can't spell "nationalist" without "alt".

Hey that would make a good bumper sticker!

[Mendocino]

24. How about fascist?

Old school, succinct and truthful.

[tavalon]

25. I am glad this is getting legs

I refuse to use that sanitized term.

[muntrv]

26. Call them klan and nazis.