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The alternative right, or alt-right, is a political movement in both the U.S. and Europe that has achieved increasing popularity with the presidential victory of Donald Trump, his adviser Steven Bannon and the recent debacle over Milo Yiannopolous though both the alt-right and Milo dont claim one another.

Its crucial to understand what the alt-right is, where it came from and what it intends on doing. Here Ill be laying out its philosophical basis, historical background and plans for the future. Though the alt-rights subreddit was taken down over policy issues, its base relocated to The Voat (similar to Reddit), from which Ill be getting a bulk of my information. Also, Richard Spencer, the alt-rights founder, publishes a journal called Radix along with other alt-right blogs.

The alt-rights main tenets are race realism and identitarianism. Race realism is the belief that human beings are divided into races and that those races are biologically unequal. The origins of race realism lie in the justification of Europes colonial dominance over the rest of the world from the late 15th century all the way until even the 20th century. As a means to justify the occupation and enslavement of native peoples, Europeans deemed them as savage and brutish races who couldnt govern themselves and needed to be colonized or enslaved.

Race science began on the premise that Europeans were biologically superior to Africans, Native Americans and Asiatic peoples. A common method of scientific racism is the measuring of human skulls. It was thought that European skulls were more apt for intelligence than the lesser races. Its important to note that Spencer, the alt-rights founder, has a picture from the book Crania Americana, the seminal text of skull measuring, as his Facebook cover photo.

Another aspect of race realism comes from the controversial book The Bell Curve, the premise of which is that intelligence is biological, IQ determines intelligence and that white people biologically have a higher IQ and therefore higher intelligence than other races. However, the major faults are the ideas that theres a set definition of intelligence (there isnt), intelligence is innate and unchanging (no evidence suggests this) and that there are races of human beings whose biology determines their IQ (flat out incorrect). Stephen Jay Goulds The Mismeasure of Man is known as the complete debunking of not only The Bell Curve, but the artificial connection between race and intelligence.

Identitarianism runs parallel to race realism in that it believes all men are NOT created equal and that identities (gender and race) create a natural hierarchy in society the most advanced, of course, being white men. The idea of hierarchy in society was espoused especially by the philosophy of fascism, in which an incredibly strict class structure is adhered to. The slave masters of antebellum had a similar paternalistic outlook in which slavery was seen as a positive good rather than a necessary evil. They believed they were following the laws of nature and keeping to a strict hierarchy in which slaves, wives and children were all deemed property of the male slave master. Identity being a key factor of a successful society white supremacy is explicitly adhered to.

Spencer made this perfectly clear in a speech he gave last November: America was, until this past generation, a white country designed for ourselves and our posterity It is our creation, it is our inheritance and it belongs to us.

Spencer and the rest of the alt-right believe America is culturally degenerating, that is, becoming socially weak. Compare this with Teddy Roosevelt, who believed America had to fight in wars to avoid the weakening of the American Race and its supposed break from masculinity.

Identitarianism and race realism, then, are inherent negatives on society and are based on false presuppositions of white and male superiority whose supposed supremacy came solely from the heinous and genocidal crimes of European colonial conquest on the rest of the planet.

The history of white supremacy can be traced not only through conquest, but the resistance of those fighting back. The Klu Klux Klan, for example, didnt appear until Reconstruction after the Civil War, in which black citizens, for the first time, held positions in government and had genuine political power for the first time in U.S. history. The Klan specifically targeted these officials. Also, going back to Teddys masculinity crisis, the Boy Scouts and many other male inclusive athletic organizations didnt arise until women began demanding rights such as suffrage, etc. In this sense, it is inherently reactionary, meaning it harshly pushed back on any social progress.

What does the alt-right intend on creating? According to Richard Spencer, it seeks to create an ethno-state, which he believes Donald Trump is helping become reality. An ethno-state, according to Richard Spencers own National Policy Institute, is the White mans only practical step forward. It is the belief that a country should be artificially created to preserve and uphold a specific race.

Spencer and the alt-right believe that the rise of a non-white population become the majority in America is a crisis that must be stopped via the creation and enforcing of an ethno-state, which inherently would involve ethnic cleansing. Ill let the alt-rights Colin Liddell speak for himself in his essay Is Black Genocide Right?

However, for too long now, when we consider questions of race, especially questions concerning the Black race, we have been framing things in completely the wrong way, Liddell wrote. Instead of asking how we can make reparations for slavery, colonialism, and Apartheid or how we can equalize academic scores and incomes, we should instead be asking questions like, Does human civilization actually need the Black race? Is Black genocide right? and, if it is, What would be the best and easiest way to dispose of them? This was published on the alt-rights official website.

The alternative right should not be deemed as such, but as what they are: Neo-Nazis. This movement in America is nothing new and has shown its face under different names throughout history, whether under a white sheet or otherwise. A dialogue should not be reached with the alt-right. They should be suppressed and stopped. Their views inherently entail the genocide of minorities, and, therefore, their existence is predicated on the threat of said genocide. Thus, the action that should be taken is not a dialogue, but an utter halt to their movement.

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The alt-right: America's neo-Nazi movement - The Vermilion

This is so hard to explain without triggering peoples instincts to run to the center and find a place of emotional comfort. For years, Progressives have been warning of the emerging threat of Fascism in America. Most of us are well aware of the look of exasperation on the faces of liberals when we sound this alarm; we are met with a polite roll of the eyes and an internal thought process that assigns our concerns under the heading hyperbolic speech.

Liberals, entrenched in a system that values our democratic system, find themselves unable to seriously consider a viewpoint that inevitably leads to the conclusion that the establishment is ill equipped to prevent the emergence of fascism within our boarders. Liberal thinkers cling to the idea that a capitalist country such as ours is immune to the emergence of hate as a central motivator of our government.

Of course, students of history know well that rampant unrestrained capitalism is fertile soil for germinating the seeds of hate and oppression. For years, Americans have witnessed major attacks on our nation by white nationalists and written them off as lone wolf attacks instead of analyzing the ideological motivations of the attackers. This process has allowed a false sense of security among those on the left that leaves the masses believing that if we just keep giving symbolic support to the ideas of Equality and Social Justice everything will work out in the end.

Suddenly, with the election of 2016 people are waking up, seeking avenues to stop the madness that infects our national leadership. Millions are turning to liberal establishment organizations seeking a path to resistance. Unfortunately, this path only embraces the very establishment that manifested this mess in the first place. Democrats, for example, are very clear about the impermeable link between democratic policies and capitalism.

Suddenly people are starting to embrace concepts that have been loudly touted by progressives and antichrists for years. Sadly, the establishment left has begun to appropriate the language and concepts of revolutionary thought, and water it down to make it palatable to the masses. They do this to build momentum for restoring the neoliberal order that got us into this mess in the first place, not from a place of seeking profound change that will shift the focus of our nation towards a more ethical system of governance.

If people are alarmed at the emergence of the so called alt-right (also known as white supremacists) it is well past time to listen to the Progressives and Anarchists who predicted this happening in the first place. What liberals defined as hyperbole has manifested as fact, its time liberals joined the resistance rather than calling for a return to some mythical neo liberal nation that lead to this situation in the first place.

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A rightwing network of British bloggers and social media activists has emerged as an increasingly influential voice for white nationalists and for those who oppose multiculturalism. The network is also credited with helping propel Donald Trump to the presidency, a new report has claimed.

In its annual audit of the far right, Hope not Hate, the UKs largest anti-racism and anti-extremism movement, said that although conventional far right groups such as the English Defence League continue to fracture, new forces have surfaced that can reach a vast international audience and bolster support for the alt-right, which is defined as the far right with a fringe white nationalist element that opposes multiculturalism and defends western values.

Analysis of the global far right network during 2016 a year that witnessed Brexit and a marked populist resurgence throughout Europe and the US identified 28 far right groups active in the UK but also named a cohort of Britons that it said were instrumental in propagating alt-right views and masterminding attacks on liberal democracy.

It was a year where a new far right threat became more evident, one that played out largely on social media and to an international audience, the report states. It is a threat that has been at the heart of the global fake news phenomenon and one that can engage and mobilise far greater numbers of people across Europe and north America.

An example of these activities is provided by London-based Paul Watson, described as editor, staff writer for the conspiracy website InfoWars whose most popular article on Friday morning was headlined: Trump destroys leftist judges. Watson, who has 483,000 Twitter followers and 764,872 subscribers on YouTube, is named as a central disseminator of the conspiracy theory concerning Hillary Clinton having debilitating health issues in the runup to the US election, including the Is Hillary Dying? hoax.

During a series of unashamedly conspiratorial videos that were viewed millions of times, Watson, originally from Sheffield, suggested Clinton might have had syphilis, brain damage and Parkinsons disease as well as alleging she was a drug abuser. Watsons conspiracy theories were also taken up by Fox News, the right-leaning US broadcaster.

Another Briton said to have had an influential intervention in the US elections is 52-year-old Jim Dowson, a Scottish Calvinist who founded the far right, anti-Muslim party Britain First. Dowson, from a hub in Hungary, set up a network of US-focused websites and Facebook groups with the intention of promoting Trump and denigrating his rival during the US election.

Dowsons websites include Patriot News Agency whose postings have been viewed and shared tens of thousands of times in the US and whose articles on Friday include a critique of a new Netflix series which it accused of stoking anti-white racism. An investigation by the New York Times in December claimed that although a sizeable volume of US election fake news emanated from central and Eastern Europe, Dowsons operation was the only obviously politically inspired intervention.

Among the increasingly internationalised far right movement, Dowson is considered adept at building an online fanbase, managing to attract 1.4 million Facebook followers to Britain First. Dowson himself has described his strategy as spreading devastating anti-Clinton, pro-Trump memes and sound bites into sections of the population too disillusioned with politics to have taken any notice of conventional campaigning.

According to Hope not Hates report, Dowson spent much of 2016 building an international network of far right parties, militia groups and religious extremists. His anti-immigrant group Knights Templar International opened a branch in Budapest, Hungary, where former BNP leader Nick Griffin was witnessed as a frequent visitor along with known far right faces from Sweden and the US.

Hope not hate expects Dowsons influence to grow this year as he fosters relationships with Russia and far-right agitators in Europe and the US. A recent Dowson alliance involves Aleksandr Dugin, a facist with alleged links to the Kremlin and who is understood to be helping Dowson construct a new office in the Serb capital Belgrade that will promote far right news sites entirely in Cyrillic script.

Nick Lowles, chief executive of Hope Not Hate, said: The fact that a young man sitting in a small flat in south London can create headlines in the US or a British extremist can use the Hungarian capital as a base to influence politics in central, eastern and southern Europe makes monitoring and countering these groups very difficult.

Another Briton named as a highly effective voice for the far right, even though he has attempted to distance himself from the movement, is Milo Yiannopoulos, technology editor of Breitbart News, the US website which claimed to have 45 million unique readers in the weeks up to and during the aftermath of Trumps election.

The former executive chairman of Breitbart News, Steve Bannon, is now Trumps chief strategist, a man promoted to the National Security Council and who Time magazine referred to last week as possibly the second most powerful man in the world. In a speech to a conference at the Vatican in 2014, Bannon made it a political objective to undermine liberal democracy in Western Europe through the advancement of nationalist movements.

Yiannopoulos, banned from Twitter in July for inciting or engaging in the targeted abuse or harassment of others, reportedly recently signed a 200,000 book deal with Simon & Schuster. The 33-year-old from Kent, recently defended by Trump as a symbol of free speech after demonstrators violently protested against his planned speech at the University of California, Berkeley, has more than 525,000 fans on YouTube.

Other key British figures include vlogger Colin Robertson, who produces white supremacist YouTube videos from his parents home in West Lothian, Scotland. Despite such humble surroundings, Robertson was invited to speak at the notorious far right rally in Washington DC last November that was organised by nationalist thinktank the National Policy Institute (NPI), and where crowds chanted Hail Trump and made Nazi salutes.

The 34-year-old also spoke at an inaugural meeting last year of the rightwing Seattle Forum, a branch of a UK network which, according to Hope not Hate, is expanding rapidly. The London Forum held five meetings last year, the latest in September, with speakers including Holocaust denier David Irving and US far right writer F Roger Devlin who contributes to the white nationalist journal Occidental Quarterly. Other Britons who addressed the NPI event in Washington included Matthew Tait, a former British National Party organiser who organised a series of alt-right socials in Holborn, London, at the end of last year.

Another development was the governments decision to proscribe the neo-nazi group National Action as a terrorist organisation. Supporters of the group celebrated the murder of the Labour MP Jo Cox who was killed last June by rightwing extremist Thomas Mair, 53. The authorities are understood to have intelligence that some of its senior activists were trying to encourage younger recruits to conduct acts of terrorism and were required to place antisemitic stickers on Jewish buildings and neighbourhoods as part of their initiation.

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People say left-wingers are touchy. But it only took a 30-second teaser for Netflixs new show Dear White People to get alt-right viewers to cancel their subscriptions.

And judging from some misreadings of the clip, many didnt even give it the full 30 seconds.

Were not just talking about easily-swayed Twitter sheep. The knee-jerking extended to the more cultured spokesmen of the movement with 100k+ followers.

Considering the alt-right are winning the culture wars at the moment their man is in the White House and liberal America is licking its wounds why are they so thin-skinned?

One-time Buzzfeed writer Tim Treadstone, aka @BakedAlaska claimed that the anti-white show promotes white genocide, and created the #NoNetflix boycott hashtag, which has been trending for two days.

But he has since claimed that it is Dear White People director Justin Simien who is shutting down debate:

Really? Theres a difference in loudness between simply not watching a show, even blocking one person on Twitter, and ditching a whole network.

As well as throwing the baby out with the bathwater, this is the definition of shutting down debate.

Which is odd, considering alt-right criticisms of liberals center on their oversensitivity and propensity to take things out of context. Youve got your eager-for-a-fight SJWs; fragile snowflakes who cant stand the heat, people who cant take a joke. More often than not, just sore losers.

But whats worse than a sore loser? A sore winner.

If people on the alt-right had stayed for the full 30 seconds of the Dear White People teaser, they might have seen that it presents a critique.

Going even further back, you might discover that the 2014 movie on which the show is based critiques people of all leanings. It lampoons privileged racism, and those who think it no longer exists but also takes on overzealous activists and people who are lukewarm about standing up for what they believe.

At the very start, one character calls in to the main character Samantha Whites radio show and asks whether it would be okay if he had one called Dear Black People. The question is debated. Everyone gets it from all sides, and this changes their outlook.

It is a film about the act of debate, self-criticism and re-evaluation. But it seems in our era of anti-intellectualism, any attempt to educate oneself or someone else is frowned upon.

The alt-right position themselves as provocateurs, but dont know how to respond to criticism.

Their political representative, President Trump, doesnt believe in climate change and so has cut funding to research into establishing whether it is a thing or not. His press secretary Sean Spicer told a room full of journalists to stop criticising his administration the day after the inauguration.

The truth is, the alt-right attracts the thin-skinned.

I mean, you have to be quick to take offence in order to wilfully misread black lives matter as black lives matter more; to think that voicing how its not okay to shoot a black person on sight is itself a racially motivated attack, or, in the case of Tomi Lahren who hates whiners as bad as systematic lynchings by the KKK.

In the case of Dear White People, the argument is this:that outlining the ways in which people have been racist in the past and in the present is itself racist against racists.

Do you follow? No? Thats because its bollocks.

The alt-right have always been thin-skinned but we just hadnt seen it. Not too long ago they were outliers with nothing to lose. They didnt have to justify themselves because nobody paid them enough heed to challenge them. Now they are a dominant political voice, but havent developed the diplomacy that comes with having to satisfy everyones gripes.

Dear White People director Justin Simien responded to the backlash in a Facebook post (which he later deleted): I feel strangely encouraged. To see the sheer threat that people feel over a date announcement video featuring a woman of color (politely) asking not to be mocked makes it so clear why I made this show.

Now there has been a backlash to the backlash. Some outlets have begun endorsing the show. The heat has lead to people who might not have seen the original film looking it up on Netflix.

It even inspired someone to coin the phrase broflake to needlealt-right guys who are nonetheless hypersensitive. In the end, the jokes on them.

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