The Alt-Right

[Chris]

It's not his politics. Khan acknowledges the biological utility of the race concept and he is quoted by "white nationalists". Worse still, his comments about IQ are most troubling.

OK, the left is against those aspects of science. It's like the dude got fired from Google for writing a manifesto on biological differences between the sexes.

[Mister D]

OK, the left is against those aspects of science. It's like the dude got fired from Google for writing a manifesto on biological differences between the sexes.

Well, I suppose it's not just his views. He also speaks to people the left doesn't like. Perhaps that is his greatest sin. The funny thing is I used to eyeball his blog Gene Expression from time to time when I used to debate "race" on these forums. Khan doesn't like white nationalists.

[Chris]

Well, I suppose it's not just his views. He also speaks to people the left doesn't like. Perhaps that is his greatest sin. The funny thing is I used to eyeball his blog Gene Expression from time to time when I used to debate "race" on these forums. Khan doesn't like white nationalists.

He's just a target. Like many of us are when we're called racists and Nazis because we blame both the alt-right and the alt-left for Charlottesville, Boston, etc.

It doesn't have to make sense if it rallies the troops.

[Green Arrow]

We live in the age of Orwell's "Newspeak." Words are regularly twisted and redefined until they are utterly meaningless. And it is not unique to one side.

[Mister D]

We live in the age of Orwell's "Newspeak." Words are regularly twisted and redefined until they are utterly meaningless. And it is not unique to one side.

True but I think it's an older phenomenon. Fascism, for example, became meaningless long before I was born.

[Mark III]

People have twisted the original meaning of the "alt-right" so much that any discussion of it is meaningless, yet here I am attempting a discussion of it.

About a year and a half ago, I read this this and found that I readily agreed with the alt-right. It is a long read and probably no one will read it.

Now I think anyone on here would probably consider me as leaning right, but not extremely so. So, if I can agree with the original meaning of "alt-right", then most anyone else should be able to (except for leftist types).

I cringe nowadays when I read or hear about the "alt-right", as what the alt-right means today is not what it meant before President Trump was elected.

If the link I provided is not an accurate description of the alt-right, someone please define it more accurately.

The person who created the term (about his movement) "alt-right" is Richard Spencer , a white nationalist leader.

[Mister D]

He's just a target. Like many of us are when we're called racists and Nazis because we blame both the alt-right and the alt-left for Charlottesville, Boston, etc.

It doesn't have to make sense if it rallies the troops.

Yeah, it's kind of like that. Khan says A but some white nationalists also say A so the logical connection between Khan and white nationalism is thus established. It seems to me that unless you denounce everything white nationalists say or do you;re one of them.

[Mark III]

Isn't Richard Spencer the one who is credited with creating the mantle "Alt Right"?

Don't make too much sense or your friends here will ignore you.

[Captain Obvious]

We live in the age of Orwell's "Newspeak." Words are regularly twisted and redefined until they are utterly meaningless. And it is not unique to one side.

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Both ends of the spectrum also are great at parroting dog whistle memes.

Intellectual laziness.

[resister]

Don't make too much sense or your friends here will ignore you.

You both said that, will either one of you post a verified link or is it just a CNN talking point?