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The controversial character who attacks multiculturalism came under fire on Channel 4 news

RIGHT-winger Jack Buckby caused controversy when he told a student campaigner I hope you dont get raped during a live TV debate about Syrian refugees.

The 24-year-old alt-right activist has often hit the headlines during his short career in politics but who is he?

Jack Buckby studied politics before being kicked out of university after protesting againt a Muslim speaker.

He claimed they were going to justify the murder of British soldier Lee Rigby who was killed by two men who converted to Islam.

After going the BNP he was tipped to become a future leading figure within the party during his stint as a member of its youth wing the BNP Crusaders.

But it didn't last long, as the youngster later quit the party over concerns its views had become "racist."

He is now working as a press officer for Liberty GB and stood for election in the European Elections in 2014.

Heinfamously contested the Batley and Spen by-election seat after Jo Cox MP's tragic murder - despiteall major political parties saying they would abstain out of respect.

The activistconsiders himself to be a "paleoconservative and a culturist" who doesn't believe multiculturalism works.

His party Liberty GB wants to ban all immigration to Britain for five years.

Nationalist Richard Spencer coined the term alt-right in 2010.

It stands for people with far-right ideologies whooftenbecome notorious for their views on race, religion and gender.

Alt-right, short for alterntive right, has become a buzz word in mainstream media.

It is a broad, outspoken movementthat attacks multiculturalism, globalisation and immigration.

The Anti-Defamation League defines it as a vague termabout extremists "who reject mainstream conservatism in favor of forms of conservatism that embrace implicit or explicit racism or white supremacy".

Those writing under the umbrella termdiffer on many points but common targets include the establishment, feminism and political correctness.

The group supported President-elect Donald Trump in the US presidential race.

Those associated with the group which has no clear ideology or membership operate mostly through social media.

Buckby appeared on Channel 4 News to debate the alt-right movement with a political activist from the National Union of Students black students' campaign.

Right-wing activist Jack Buckby handeda refugee application form toBarbara Ntumy during a live discussion on Channel 4 News.

He told her to "put her money where her mouth is", adding: "Take one home, take in a Syrian refugee. I hope you dont get raped.

His remark left Ntumy lost for words before she admitted not havingthe "financial means" to invite a refugee into her home.

The news debate, which has now been removed from Channel 4's website, caused an astonished man behind the camera to say on my god during the live broadcast.

Buckbymade the comments after saying that he wanted to deport people who are drain on society.

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Who is Jack Buckby, what is the alt-right and what did the former ... - The Sun

Dear Editor: It is difficult to read a newspaper today without seeing a reference to the alt-right an expression most of us had never heard a year ago. New words are developed all the time; helicopter parent and frenemy are prime examples. Most new words simply make it easier to express ourselves, but there is something much more sinister about the usage of alt-right.

White nationalist Richard Spencer coined the term alt-right in 2010, but it first came into common usage through its use by former Breitbart News chair, Steve Bannon, now White House chief strategist for Donald Trump.

The term alt-right is used to refer to groups that formerly were called white supremacists, neo-Nazis, KKK, or racists. On the evening news we see rallies with people giving the Nazi salute, chanting Sieg Heil and "Hail Trump," and they are referred to as alt-right rather than neo-Nazis.

In some cases the press intentionally uses the expression to sanitize racist behavior, but many times I think the expression is used because it is just too horrifying to fathom that our president could not have been elected without the support of the most extreme racist groups, and that Trump has a white supremacist, Steve Bannon, as his chief strategist.

I dont know whether Trump is a racist, but he did everything possible to woo the racist vote talking about Obama's birth, Mexican rapists, and radical Islamic terrorists.

I am calling on the press to reject the words alt-right; they misrepresent something that is truly evil.

Charles Frisk

Green Bay

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We regret to report that in the year 2017, the idea that people can have sex for other than procreative reasons remains controversial. Our own Sen. Steve Daines supports the effort to defund Planned Parenthood, even though the clinics provide basic health care to millions of women and men.

Legislators can make it more difficult for women to control their reproductive choices, but no law will never quell the astonishing breadth and depth of human sexual expression. Even while puritanical notions of sex and gender persist in mainstream culture, technology has opened up a broad expanse of new ways to communicate about and have sex. Consider the peach emoji. It's such a beloved symbol of booty that users protested when Apple tried to redesign it in mid-2016 to look more like an actual piece of fruit. Apple buckled, and the emoji remains juicily evocative of (pardon our French) a ripe piece of ass.

The peach emoji seemed like a fitting tie-in to this issue's main subject, Chuck Tingle, who uses digital platforms to spread his bizarre (unless you're into that kind of thing) brand of erotica about intergalactic, interspecies gay sex. This issue also delves into other internet subcultures and even the popularity of Bigfoot porn. Come along as we celebrate the weirder side of sexuality.

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When my cue comes, call me, and I will answer.

Bottom, A Midsummer Night's Dream

Before Trump, before the alt-right, there was Gamergate. Born of an online harassment campaign against video game developer Zo Quinn, Gamergate quickly ensnarled the industry in a proxy culture war. By 2015, Breitbart editor and self-proclaimed "supervillain of the internet" Milo Yiannopoulos was heralding the movement as an "online uprising against atrocious journalism and wacky social justice warriors in the world of video games," presaging the battle lines now writ large upon American politics.

One of the movement's targets was the annual Hugo Awards, which honor works of science fiction and fantasy. Some saw the awards as overtaken by literary elitists who preferred diversity of authorship and progressiveness of theme over old-fashioned adventure and inventiona sort of pro-status-quo inversion of Hollywood's #OscarsSoWhite backlash. So GamerGaters decided to game the system. Because Hugo nominees are crowdsourced, a voting bloc known as the "Sad Puppies" was able to hijack the 2015 shortlists in favor of authors who shared their ideology. The next year, 2016, a more extreme "Rabid Puppies" faction waged a scorched-earth campaign, installing 64 of the 81 finalists across all Hugo categories.

The Puppies' biggest coup was a prank in the Shakespearean mold. Think A Midsummer Night's Dream. In that play's most memorable moment, the faerie king tricks his wife, Titania, into sleeping with the laughable Bottom, a lowly actor whose head has been transformed into that of a donkey. The Rabid Puppies played a similar trick. They handed the Hugos an ass to kiss.

The ass they chose was Chuck Tingle, a pseudonymous Billings writer who self-publishes parody erotica e-books featuring sex between monsters and men. One of his stories follows an astronaut who must negotiate between his spontaneous lust for a dinosaur he encounters on the planet Zorbus and his heteronormative anxiety. "Our difference in species surely couldn't classify me as gay, could it?" the narrator says, before succumbing to his desire. The work, Space Raptor Butt Invasion, (available at Amazon.com for $2.99) was planted as a finalist for best short story.

It was as if a pornographic Star Trek spoof had been nominated for an Oscar. Media outlets jumped on the story. The Puppies basked in the success of their "pro-level trolling," as one admirer described it. Rabid Puppies leader Theodore Beale (pen name Vox Day) sarcastically touted Tingle as the "Shakespeare of our time."

More accomplished authors pressured Tingle to bow out of the running, but Tingle had his own ideas. First he penned a new storyhe calls them "Tinglers"about the situation. Title: Slammed in the Butt by my Hugo Award Nomination. A Sad Puppies blogger called it "amusing." Next, Tingle invited Quinn, the Gamergate trolls' original foe, to accept the award in his stead, in the event that he actually won. Then he registered http://www.therabidpuppies.com, using the domain to promote three women authors Vox Day's group had targeted and, for good measure, the Billings Public Library. Tingle capped his counterattack with a 7-minute animated video that poked at the Puppies for being "sad, lonesome men" pushing an "anti-buckaroo agenda."

"Buckaroos," in the Tingleverse, are Tingle followers.

"Only way to fight bad dog blues is with good days ahead," he says in the video, speaking in his idiosyncratic style. "Now is time to prove love is real for all who kiss, like a bud on a unicorn or a bud on a plane or a bud and a handsome meatball."

It should be apparent from the quotations that Chuck Tingle is in no sense a traditional litterateur.

Like Titania waking from her slumber, the Puppies began to realize their misjudgment. "Methought I was enamored of an ass!" Titania says in Shakespeare's play, her spell broken. "Oh, how mine eyes do loathe his visage now!"

Tingle, it turned out, wasn't the strange bedfellow the right-wing trolls thought he'd be. He was something stranger still.

This is the silliest stuff I ever heard.

Hippolyta, A Midsummer Night's Dream

"Who is Chuck Tingle?" That was the question on sci-fi writer Naomi Kritzer's mind as the Hugo episode unfolded. Kritzer was nominated alongside Tingle for her short story "Cat Pictures Please," and she expected that the event would be overshadowed by the same political insurrection that had swallowed the 2015 awards season. Tingle's response to the Puppies, she says, offered respite to her and other sci-fi fans who were growing weary of it all.

"Instead, we spent all summer talking about dinosaur buds and buckaroos and speculating about who Chuck Tingle was. That was a huge improvement," she says.

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How Chuck Tingle turned monster erotica into performance art, trolled the alt-right and made the internet great again. - Missoula Independent

It all started with a column.

On Jan. 30, Rosa Brooks wrote an editorial in Foreign Policy magazine speculating about what would happen if Donald Trump actually went insane. She mused that Trump could be impeached, or that he could be removed by the vice president and the cabinet. "And then at the very end of the column, I said there's something I always assumed was unthinkable in this country, which is the military refusingto obey orders, or even a coup. But for the first [time] in my life, I could imagine a scenario where that actually happens, and that's frightening."

At first, nothing happened. But then a few days after the column came out, she boarded a plane from Washington, DC,to Houston. Everything was quiet when she got on the plane. "But I got off, and I had hundreds and hundreds of new tweets and emails. And I thought, 'What the heck happened?'"

Breitbart News the website pandering to the "alt-right" and white supremacists previously run by Steve Bannon, now Donald Trump's top political adviser had run a story about her column, called "Ex-Obama Official Suggests Military Coup Against Trump."Soon, conspiracy-oriented outlets from InfoWars to white supremacist websites likeDaily Stormer claimed she was threatening the violent overthrow of the USgovernment.

"I swear I wasn't actually planning a coup!" she says.

Still, the hate mail flowed in. She was bombarded with obscene, racistand violent tweets, callsand emails. One email warned, "I AM GOING TO CUT OFF YOUR HEAD ... BITCH." Other messages threatened to shoot her, hang her, deport herand imprison her.

At first, Brooks says she downplayed the threats. "I thought, 'Oh, OK. So you get a bunch of crazy people who have nothing better to do than sit down and send you nasty emails. So what else is new?'"

But then she remembered theshooting at Comet Ping Pong in December.

Comet Ping Pong restaurant was the target of fake news stories saying it was harboringa child sex ring run by Hillary Clinton. "Everybody including myself said, 'Oh that's so silly. Nobody could possibly believe that. It's just goofy," recalls Brooks. But a North Carolina man read the story and stormed the pizzeria with a military-style assault rifle. Brooks says events like that make it harder to dismiss the threats against her as hot air."That kind of incident is sobering. It only takes one crazy person to take silly crazy internet rumors seriously to create a real danger."

Brooks concedes online harassment of journalists is nothing new. Over the years, Brooks says she's received plenty of hate mail. But something feels different now.

With Trump and Bannon in the White House, Brooks says she's no longer confident that journalists are safe from government crackdowns."When you have a president in the White House who feels free to go make personal attacks on federal judges, foreign leaders, etc. ... it does start feeling like all bets are off."

At the end of the day, Brooks says journalists must not be intimidated into silence. "My biggest fear is that people will stop speaking truth."

Brooks, who wrote her own column about the experience, promises to redouble her efforts to ask the hard questions, have uncomfortable conversationsand challenge executive overreach.

"We do have a set of really important Constitutional norms in this country. And we're seeing them challenged from the White House itself in a very public way. And that's scary, and we have to call it scary," Brooks says. "Pushing back against treating this as if it's just normal is really, really important for all of us to do."

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Journalist says she was the target of an 'alt-right' lynch mob | Public ... - PRI

In case you missed it, J.K. Rowling has been absolutely killing it on Twitter.

When the Harry Potter author isnt busy giving her take on Donald Trump or retweeting powerful messages on Holocaust Memorial Day, shes going to toe-to-toe with alt-right trolls.

Case in point: Rowlings response to a user with a Pepe the Frog avatar (the signature alt-right symbol) calling her Mrs. Shitty Writer (burn)

Rowling took the comment in stride, writing: sighs Well, who knows? If I try harder, I might be reincarnated as a lonely virgin hiding behind a cartoon frog.

One user commented back in jest wondering if Rowling had beef with all virgins, to which the author quickly clarified her position.

Unless theyre sublimating their frustration in alt-right politics, I wish every one of them fulfilment and happiness <3, she tweeted.

She then wrote back to another avatar-masked troll, who accused her of hiding behind a fictional dweeb ass child.

Unless youre actually a hooded chihuahua, Im pretty sure I win on the not hiding front. I quite like old whore, though. #Shakespearean, Rowling wrote.

Keep at it, J.K., keep at it.

Thea Glassman is an Associate Editor at the Forward. Reach her at glassman@forward.com or on Twitter at @theakglassman.

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