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I was born in Mississippi, my relatives still live there. I don't like the racism that still exists there. My side is for the people who all have rights, no matter what color or religion. What is your side.
Ok, please tell me the definition of the "alt left".
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I'll give you examples: Antifa, BLM, Occupy Wallstreet, socialist, communist, anarchist, CAIR. And media like Huffpost.
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It means the extreme left-as in violently shutting down free speech, rioting, killing cops, calling for Washington and Jefferson to be removed etc. Stop being obtuse.
Actually, not. Closer to the reverse.
Although after Trump misused the term AltLeft the other day who KNOWS what it will now come to mean.
And since Hannity also isn't the brightest bulb on the planet it's possible that he, too, actually coined a new but essentially meaningless term without realizing that the word had actually been around for a while albeit in obscure usage.
There really IS an altleft.com website that I promise you is all sunshine and roses compared to the altright.com site.
The first (and thus "real") AltLeft refers to those who are pro-white and anti-pc but who can't quite stomach all the AltRight views. You know, left of AltRight. Get it? Too, it can include liberals who reject SJWs. Another term is AltLite. The are organizationally "real" enough to have been invited but very sensibly declined to participate in the Unite the Right rally.
Keeping this straight? Invited to participate on the side of the Nazi/KKK protestors, NOT the Antifa.
But like I said, now? The moniker may well be co-opted even though it's confusing the heck out of reporters who never had heard of the AltLeft before it came out of Trump's mouth.
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Yah. The BBC is well spoken, in nice public school dulcet tones. Nonetheless, the UK in general is still kinda miffed about US intervention in WWI & WWII. It's an on-again, off-again kind of relationship, & currently they're having to work their way through the Brexit. It's a tough row to hoe, & they're understandably cranky.
Washington & Jefferson were (in the BBC's society's eyes) @ least members in good standing of their colonial elites, & Jefferson would have been an excellent esthete & polymath even in jolly old England. Lincoln now, was of dark complexion, a man of the earth, & certainly not a member of any elite, other than being a self-made man. That in & of itself may be enough to gain British opprobrium - they reluctantly backed the Union, but quietly. It didn't help that UK had outlawed slavery & trafficking in slaves themselves in the 1840s, as I recall.
Anyway, we can cut the British cousins some slack, they've had a rough go of it here lately, & their carping from the sidelines on this topic does us no harm.
AltRight is not a made up term. It is a functioning organization with specific goals, the most recent of which was to try to use the Unite the Right march to move from the dark recesses of the web into the streets.
The meaning of AltLeft had been a bit more nebulous since it doesn't have the organizational functionality of the AltRight.
But the term "AltLeft" as used by Trump WAS made up although I suppose he meant the counter-protestors which unlike the Unite the Right marchers (who were pretty uniformly Nazi-KKK types per their online organizational outreaches) were quite varied in background and certainly did not consist of a single group.
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Although after Trump misused the term AltLeft the other day who KNOWS what it will now come to mean.
And since Hannity also isn't the brightest bulb on the planet it's possible that he, too, actually coined a new but essentially meaningless term without realizing that the word had actually been around for a while albeit in obscure usage.
There really IS an altleft.com website that I promise you is all sunshine and roses compared to the altright.com site.
The first (and thus "real") AltLeft refers to those who are pro-white and anti-pc but who can't quite stomach all the AltRight views. You know, left of AltRight. Get it? Too, it can include liberals who reject SJWs. Another term is AltLite. The are organizationally "real" enough to have been invited but very sensibly declined to participate in the Unite the Right rally.
Keeping this straight? Invited to participate on the side of the Nazi/KKK protestors, NOT the Antifa.
But like I said, now? The moniker may well be co-opted even though it's confusing the heck out of reporters who never had heard of the AltLeft before it came out of Trump's mouth.
What ? I defined the alt-left (part of the Democrat party). I don't need anyone to define it for me: Antifa, BLM, Antifa, BLM, Occupy Wallstreet, Bernie socialist, communist, anarchist, CAIR. And media like Huffpost. What your describing sounds like traditional liberalism.
AltRight is not a made up term. It is a functioning organization with specific goals, the most recent of which was to try to use the Unite the Right march to move from the dark recesses of the web into the streets.
The meaning of AltLeft had been a bit more nebulous since it doesn't have the organizational functionality of the AltRight.
But the term "AltLeft" as used by Trump WAS made up although I suppose he meant the counter-protestors which unlike the Unite the Right marchers (who were pretty uniformly Nazi-KKK types per their online organizational outreaches) were quite varied in background and certainly did not consist of a single group.
Dubious, not credible. You are just repeating the Democrat narrative: All protesters against monument removals were 'Nazis'.
Funny how the right still tries to diminish the left with terms like "communist" and elects a guy who admires Putin, arguably the person who is most effectively promoting communism in the modern world.
I know a lot of right-wingers who absolutely hate Wall Street. Their ability to jump on the bandwagon of shaming Occupy 'Wall Street' (two words), while hating on corporate America is just another example of sad compartmentalism.
I see no problem with being anti-fascist. Should we be "pro-fascist" and celebrate Mussolini's B-day?
Do conservative "black lives" not matter?
Just sounds like a lot of labeling based on poor understanding of the issues and partisan lockstep mentality.
Would anyone like to start a movement to rename the "alt" button?
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& they may still be upset about Edward VIII & W. Simpson
? I defined the alt-left (part of the Democrat party). I don't need anyone to define it for me: Antifa, BLM, Antifa, BLM, Occupy Wallstreet, Bernie socialist, communist, anarchist, CAIR. And media like Huffpost. What your describing sounds like traditional liberalism.
