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“”The alt-right is a loser's poor fantasy of what a radical revolution looks like. I should know.

—from former neo-Nazi Jacob Bacharach

“”The Alt-Right is a racial movement and if you've heard otherwise then you've heard wrong.

—mod of /r/AltRight, LetThereBeWhite

The alt-right (abbreviated AR and an antonym for "all right") or new right is a far-right political movement that opposes multiculturalism and social justice movements (or what they call "Cultural Marxists" and "SJWs"). The movement is made up largely by young Internet-dwellers; it is itself the merger of traditional white nationalists, neo-Nazis, and right-wing internet groups (such as the neoreactionary movement and right-leaning Gamergaters). The alt-right consensus generally rests at the juncture of those three groups. The alt-right is also united by its support for 2016 U.S. Republican President-elect Donald Trump. The term originated with Richard Spencer's white nationalist magazine/blog Alternative Right, nicknamed "AltRight".

The alt-right wholeheartedly embrace the overt racism, misogyny, neo-Nazi affectations, bullying and trolling of chan culture as a lifestyle. You'll find them on /pol/, /r/The_Donald, My Posting Career or The Right Stuff; they make up a sizable fraction of the more radical and uncouth sections of Gamergate. They're also the ones who popularized "cuckservative" as a term of abuse for those on the right who are deemed not racist enough.

Whether they are primarily neoreactionaries who are into white nationalism or white nationalists dressing their ideas up with neoreactionary jargon is probably a distinction without a difference. The term "alt-right" has come to be more generally be used for Trump supporters who think swastikas are good; in this context, it's just a hip name for white supremacists.

Origins

“”The alt-right began with a speech the conservative writer Paul Gottfried gave in 2008, after the Republican Party’s electoral wipeout. [...] But it was Donald Trump's presidential campaign that brought the movement into the mainstream".

—The Washington Post

Who exactly brought the movement to the mainstream? Richard Spencer, who is best described thusly:

Richard Spencer uses chopsticks to deftly pluck slivers of togarashi-crusted ahi from a rectangular plate. He is sitting in the Continental-style lounge of the Firebrand Hotel, near his home in the upscale resort town of Whitefish, Montana, discussing a subject not typically broached in polite company. "Race is something between a breed and an actual species," he says, likening the differences between whites and people of color to those between golden retrievers and basset hounds. "It's that powerful." We are well into our third round of Arrogant Frog, a merlot that Spencer chose because its name reminds him of Pepe, the cartoon frog commandeered as a mascot by the "alt-right" movement that has been thrust from the shadows by Donald Trump's presidential campaign. Spencer says Pepe could also be seen as the reincarnation of an ancient Egyptian frog deity, Kek: "He is basically using the alt-right to unleash chaos and change the world," he says, looking slightly annoyed when I crack a smile. "You might say, 'Wow,' but this is literally how religions arise."

The correct response to Spencer and to the alt-right is "wow, that's some fucking cringey racialist bullshit".

Trump fandom

The Alt Right: fascists on the inside, fans of societal progress on the outside.

“”If you don’t like the Religious Right, just wait till you see the Post-Religious Right.

—Ross Douthat

The full spectrum from neoreaction through to the alt-right came out solidly for Donald Trump as 2016 Presidential nominee. In an interview with MSNBC, Republican strategist Rick Wilson characterised Trump supporters as an online movement of anti-Semites and "childless single men who masturbate to anime," noting the "Hitler iconography in their Twitter icons and names." Elements of the alt-right have also been sympathetic to Nigel Farage, Vladimir Putin and Brexit—although some white nationalists call for a European superstate built along ethnic lines, not unlike Oswald Mosley's "Europe a Nation" policy.

Steve Bannon, the new CEO of the Trump campaign, is also tied in with the alt-right and anti-"Establishment" populism; he was the former executive chairman of Breitbart News LLC and "turned Breitbart into Trump Pravda for his own personal gain", according to former Breitbart employee Ben Shapiro. Under his leadership, Breitbart embraced "the white supremacist alt-right", and the website "[became] the alt-right go-to website", according to Shapiro.

Evolution, Social Darwinism, and racism

“”The alt-right is just a euphemism for Nazism.

—The Daily Stormer

“”"I am not a Sith. I am a 'Force realist.'" #AltRightStarWars

—Patton Oswalt

There is a deep gulf between the alt-right and mainstream religious conservatives in the USA. The latter either reject evolution entirely, or else acknowledge it but insist that evolutionary science cannot be used a source for moral and ethical values; only religion can (i. e., the nonoverlapping magisteria thesis). Either way, they also affirm some type of "human exceptionalism"; that man is not simply just another animal.

In contrast, the alt-right not only universally accept Darwinian evolution, but also biological determinism, social Darwinism, and sometimes eugenics as well, which they see as logically following from it. As all the "human biodiversity" talk implies, they aren't always human exceptionalists and many do see man (or at least certain races of man) as just another animal. Much like Lord Tennyson, they see nature as "red in tooth and claw" and human nature as no different. Steve Sailer, a precursor to the alt-right, used the term "evolutionary conservative" to describe himself and how his views differed from those of other conservatives.

This schism has led to those on both sides of the divide taking very different positions on issues such as abortion (religious conservatives are strongly opposed, while the alt-right are not: John Tanton, another precursor of the movement, even founded a Planned Parenthood chapter!), bioethics, immigration, economics, and of course the teaching of evolution. Other differences include the attitude toward history. Mainstream conservatives these days have no beef with the civil rights movement of the 1960s (although today's LGBT rights movement is quite another story), but among alt-rightists, neo-segregationist rhetoric is commonplace. Creationists also dislike the alt-right's social Darwinism.

See also

For those of you in the mood, RationalWiki has a fun article about Alt-right.

• Daily Stormer: A Neo-Nazi news rag that claims to be the web's #1 alt-right site.
• Milo Yiannopoulos: Breitbart.com executive editor and Donald Trump fanboy who functions as something of an apologist and spokesperson for the alt-right movement.
• Triple parentheses: The alt-right promoted this antisemitic meme, even Jewish journalists such as Yiannopoulos
• Vox Day: Pen name of the infamous Theodore Beale, crank saint of the Alt-right and originator of the Alt-right list of Festivus grievances.
• The Cuck-o-tron 3000! An all-purpose generator of valuable alt-right discourse.

External links

• I’m not Sith, I’m Alt-Jedi, clarifies Darth Vader
• Clinton mentioned the alt-right, and they went berserk
• Alternative Right (Southern Poverty Law Center)
• Vox explainer on the alt-right
• How they describe themselves, as per Reddit. DON'T BELIEVE THE MSM SHILLS!
• Cyanide and Happiness explains: Neo-Nazi Simulator 2016
• Reddit:

• /r/AltRight
• /r/theNewRight

• Are Jews White? The Atlantic on the Alt-Right's love/hate of Jews