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Yeah it’s scary that “alt-right” is becoming doublespeak for freedom and privacy. Makes you wonder if it’s intentional, controlled opposition even, remove all freedom and privacy by vilifying a small group.


Other way around. Alt-right is attempting to co-opt "freedom of speech" the same way they've co-opted "patriot".


> Other way around. Alt-right is attempting to co-opt "freedom of speech" the same way they've co-opted "patriot".

This is it. Also, the main result of these efforts is mainly to stain the term try to co-opt. It only delivers a brief window of enhanced rhetorical effectiveness before everyone else gets wise, and starts treating those who use the term with a lot more skepticism.


I’m not sure I agree that if someone wants freedom of speech it means they are co-opting it. But it does seem like freedom of speech as a whole is being attacked because some people don’t like what a tiny fraction of people are saying.


It's not right-wingers mocking people with "freeze peach!"


What's your point? "Mocking" is literally mimicking to make fun of. So, yes, of course it's not right-wingers mocking themselves with that phrase; it's people mocking the cries right-wingers are making.


Yes, mocking their affinity for free speech.


No, mocking their claim that it's about free speech.


I think you missed their point. Alt-right ceases to mean anything other than “bad people we need to stop”.


Not scared of that at all. I think what you're looking for is a synonym. The "alt-" part of alt-right might be the doublespeak -- paleoconservatism genuinely resists the mainstream attempt to remove white supremacy from conservative platforms. The left's synonym is "deplorables", corresponding to approximately 25% of the American electorate -- not a small group at all. An effort to "remove all freedom and privacy" is hyperbolic, with only a few examples notorious in 20th century history. Are you expecting Parlor to enact a real-name-only policy?


The REAL left disagrees with the word deplorables - that was Hillary’s invention (and a stupid political move).

The real left is more concerned about economic and racial equity and fighting against he corporatocracy.


With that attitude you're already part of the alt-right and you didn't notice.


Or the alt-right is part of the left?

Honestly, not the same thing.


Sure, but the left leaning party that both exercises power and represents the left did use it. The left is responsible for that just as the right gets to own trump.


I think the “alt” part is in response to the current generation of conservatives who don’t really conserve anything because they are neocons.

Of course the left is very happy with the defanged right, so they call any actual conservative “alt”


That’s a good point: neocons separated conservatism from the political right. That wasn’t the consequence of alt-right ideas reaching the seat of power. Perhaps the part of the political right that’s not conservative and generally opposes democracy is kind of the home of the alt-right.




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