The alt-right is just another word for white supremacy, study finds
By Christopher Ingraham at the Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/08/16/the-alt-right-is-just-another-word-for-white-supremacy-study-finds/?tid=sm_tw&utm_term=.3ea34ccfff15
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The Associated Press warned this week that the media outlets should avoid using the term “alt-right” because “it is meant as a euphemism to disguise racist aims.”
The term was coined several years ago by white supremacist leader Richard Spencer, and now “encompasses a range of people on the extreme right who reject mainstream conservatism in favor of forms of conservatism that embrace implicit or explicit racism or white supremacy,” according to the Anti-Defamation League.
Although members of the “alt-right” insist they're not racist, from a practical standpoint it's been tricky, if not impossible, to find any daylight between the views they espouse and plain old white supremacy. And now, a new working paper from researchers at the University of Arkansas and Northwestern University sharply underscores the extent to which people who identify as “alt-right” harbor prejudicial views toward non-white people.
In the paper, “A Psychological Profile of the Alt-Right,” Patrick Forscher and Nour Kteily attempt to asses the beliefs of the “alt-right” using an extensive online survey. It was conducted via Amazon's Mechanical Turk service, which social science researchers have increasingly used in recent years to explore otherwise difficult-to-answer research questions. They recruited 447 “alt-right” adherents and 382 non-adherents and asked them a battery of questions on topics ranging from race to economics to the proper role of government.
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