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The '''alt-right''' is a ] movement of ideologies that are an alternative to ].<ref>{{cite web|title=White Supremacists Relish "Cuckservative" Controversy|url=http://blog.adl.org/extremism/white-supremacists-relish-cuckservative-controversy|date=2015-08-11}}</ref> It has "more in common with European far-right movements than American ones"<ref name="buzzfeed1">{{cite web|url=http://www.buzzfeed.com/rosiegray/how-2015-fueled-the-rise-of-the-freewheeling-white-nationali |title=How 2015 Fueled The Rise Of The Freewheeling, White Nationalist Alt Right Movement - BuzzFeed News |work=Buzzfeed |date=2015-07-07 |accessdate=2016-02-05|author=Gray, Rosie}}</ref> and is unified by nationalism,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://theweek.com/articles/599577/how-obscure-adviser-pat-buchanan-predicted-wild-trump-campaign-1996|title=How an obscure adviser to Pat Buchanan predicted the wild Trump campaign in 1996|author=Michael Brendan Dougherty|work=The Week|date=2016-01-19}}</ref> support for ],<ref name="buzzfeed1"/><ref name=Beast>{{cite web|author=Betsy Woodruff |url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/12/03/rush-limbaugh-s-favorite-new-white-power-group.html |title=Rush Limbaugh's Favorite New White-Power Group |publisher=The Daily Beast |date= |accessdate=2016-02-05}}</ref><ref name="thecornellreview1">{{cite web|author=The Cornell Review |url=http://www.thecornellreview.org/stewart-the-alt-right-and-why-you-cant-stump-the-trump/ |title=STEWART &#124; The 'Alt-Right' and Why You Can't Stump the Trump |work=Thecornellreview.org |date=2015-11-12 |accessdate=2016-02-05}}</ref> ] and ], and ].<ref name="buzzfeed1" /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2015/10/31/when-satanism-met-the-internet/|title=When Satanism Met The Internet|date=2015-10-31|work=Breitbart|author=Stevens, Greg}}</ref> The alt-right includes beliefs such as ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], and ].<ref name="buzzfeed1"/><ref name="weeklystandard1"/> The term was introduced by ]'s ] in 2010, gained prominence in 2015 after being identified by critics, and became more popular in 2016 after being mentioned on television.<ref name="buzzfeed1"/><ref name=Beast>{{cite web|author=Betsy Woodruff |url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/12/03/rush-limbaugh-s-favorite-new-white-power-group.html |title=Rush Limbaugh's Favorite New White-Power Group |publisher=The Daily Beast |date= |accessdate=2016-02-05}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Jan. 20, 2016 2:41am Oliver Darcy |url=http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2016/01/20/gop-strategist-under-fire-after-giving-this-vulgar-description-of-trumps-alt-right-fans-on-msnbc/ |title=GOP Strategist Under Fire After Giving This Vulgar Description of Trump's 'Alt-Right' Fans on MSNBC &#124; Video |publisher=TheBlaze.com |date=2016-01-20 |accessdate=2016-02-05}}</ref> The alt-right is younger than mainstream conservatism.<ref name="buzzfeed1"/><ref name=Beast/><ref name="thecornellreview1">{{cite web|author=The Cornell Review |url=http://www.thecornellreview.org/stewart-the-alt-right-and-why-you-cant-stump-the-trump/ |title=STEWART &#124; The 'Alt-Right' and Why You Can't Stump the Trump |work=Thecornellreview.org |date=2015-11-12 |accessdate=2016-02-05}}</ref> The '''alt-right''' is "a term used by white suprema­cists to refer to rene­gade con­ser­v­a­tives who have adopted white suprema­cist view­points and have essen­tially removed them­selves from main­stream conservatism".<ref>{{cite web|title=White Supremacists Relish "Cuckservative" Controversy|url=http://blog.adl.org/extremism/white-supremacists-relish-cuckservative-controversy|date=2015-08-11}}</ref> It has "more in common with European far-right movements than American ones"<ref name="buzzfeed1">{{cite web|url=http://www.buzzfeed.com/rosiegray/how-2015-fueled-the-rise-of-the-freewheeling-white-nationali |title=How 2015 Fueled The Rise Of The Freewheeling, White Nationalist Alt Right Movement - BuzzFeed News |work=Buzzfeed |date=2015-07-07 |accessdate=2016-02-05|author=Gray, Rosie}}</ref> and is unified by nationalism,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://theweek.com/articles/599577/how-obscure-adviser-pat-buchanan-predicted-wild-trump-campaign-1996|title=How an obscure adviser to Pat Buchanan predicted the wild Trump campaign in 1996|author=Michael Brendan Dougherty|work=The Week|date=2016-01-19}}</ref> support for ],<ref name="buzzfeed1"/><ref name=Beast>{{cite web|author=Betsy Woodruff |url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/12/03/rush-limbaugh-s-favorite-new-white-power-group.html |title=Rush Limbaugh's Favorite New White-Power Group |publisher=The Daily Beast |date= |accessdate=2016-02-05}}</ref><ref name="thecornellreview1">{{cite web|author=The Cornell Review |url=http://www.thecornellreview.org/stewart-the-alt-right-and-why-you-cant-stump-the-trump/ |title=STEWART &#124; The 'Alt-Right' and Why You Can't Stump the Trump |work=Thecornellreview.org |date=2015-11-12 |accessdate=2016-02-05}}</ref> ] and ], and ].<ref name="buzzfeed1" /><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2015/10/31/when-satanism-met-the-internet/|title=When Satanism Met The Internet|date=2015-10-31|work=Breitbart|author=Stevens, Greg}}</ref> The alt-right includes beliefs such as ], ], ], ], ], ], ], ], and ].<ref name="buzzfeed1"/><ref name="weeklystandard1"/> The term was introduced by ]'s ] in 2010, gained prominence in 2015 after being identified by critics, and became more popular in 2016 after being mentioned on television.<ref name="buzzfeed1"/><ref name=Beast>{{cite web|author=Betsy Woodruff |url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/12/03/rush-limbaugh-s-favorite-new-white-power-group.html |title=Rush Limbaugh's Favorite New White-Power Group |publisher=The Daily Beast |date= |accessdate=2016-02-05}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=Jan. 20, 2016 2:41am Oliver Darcy |url=http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2016/01/20/gop-strategist-under-fire-after-giving-this-vulgar-description-of-trumps-alt-right-fans-on-msnbc/ |title=GOP Strategist Under Fire After Giving This Vulgar Description of Trump's 'Alt-Right' Fans on MSNBC &#124; Video |publisher=TheBlaze.com |date=2016-01-20 |accessdate=2016-02-05}}</ref> The alt-right is younger than mainstream conservatism.<ref name="buzzfeed1"/><ref name=Beast/><ref name="thecornellreview1">{{cite web|author=The Cornell Review |url=http://www.thecornellreview.org/stewart-the-alt-right-and-why-you-cant-stump-the-trump/ |title=STEWART &#124; The 'Alt-Right' and Why You Can't Stump the Trump |work=Thecornellreview.org |date=2015-11-12 |accessdate=2016-02-05}}</ref>


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The alt-right is "a term used by white suprema­cists to refer to rene­gade con­ser­v­a­tives who have adopted white suprema­cist view­points and have essen­tially removed them­selves from main­stream conservatism". It has "more in common with European far-right movements than American ones" and is unified by nationalism, support for Donald Trump, opposition to multiculturalism and immigration, and rejection of egalitarianism. The alt-right includes beliefs such as neoreaction, monarchism, nativism, populism, racialism, identitarianism, white nationalism, white supremacy, and American secessionism. The term was introduced by Richard Spencer's AlternativeRight.com in 2010, gained prominence in 2015 after being identified by critics, and became more popular in 2016 after being mentioned on television. The alt-right is younger than mainstream conservatism.

Origin

The term "alternative right" or "alt-right" was used sporadically in 2008 and 2009 before becoming more frequent after self-described "identitarian" Richard B. Spencer founded AlternativeRight.com in 2010, a journal described by neoconservative Tim Mak as "sexist and racist", and by the Southern Poverty Law Center as far right and racially focused.

Definition

Some in the alt-right describe it as a big tent collection of belief systems which encompasses neoreaction, eugenics, reactionism, racialism, white nationalism, traditionalism, identitarianism, and archeofuturism. Commonalities shared across the otherwise loosely defined alt-right include anti-Jewish and anti-Zionist views, disdain for mainstream politics, and strong support for Donald Trump. This support is largely based on the heavy value the alt-right places on strength and authority. Adherents view mainstream conservatives with ridicule and have also been credited for originating and using the term "cuckservative", a neologistic epithet described by some as racist. In addition, sources like Newsday and the Cornell Review note the alt-right's strong opposition to both legal and illegal immigration and their hardline stance on the European migrant crisis. In addition, the alt-right has a strong focus on identity. Members of the alt-right use social media and the internet to organize and share their beliefs, particularly on the /pol/ of image boards such as 4chan and 8chan. The alt-right rejects terms like racist and bigot as meaningless and displays a contempt for political correctness.

Reaction

In 2010 Greg Johnson, then-editor of The Occidental Quarterly, said that Spencer's concept of the "AltRight" was about bringing together a wide variety of intellectual perspectives that are outside the purview of the American conservative movement.

In a 2015 article in Buzzfeed, reporter Rosie Gray describes the alt-right as "white supremacy perfectly tailored for our times", and notes that it uses "aggressive rhetoric and outright racial and anti-Semitic slurs". Gray also notes that the alt-right is largely based online, and both supports Donald Trump's candidacy while benefiting from his coattails. Gray quotes a prominent alt-right figure, 52-year-old vlogger Paul Ramsey, as saying that the alt-right are not neo-Nazis, although often some hold similar beliefs, such as Holocaust denial, which they also identify as historical revisionism. Proponents are said to use culture jamming and memes to promote their ideas. Some adherents also refer to themselves as identitarian, and criticize National Review and William F. Buckley for not openly supporting white nationalism or similar ideologies.

The alt-right has also been praised by some in the mainstream right, who see it as injecting youth and energy into the American right-wing. For example, Benjamin Welton of The Weekly Standard praises the alt-right as a "highly heterogeneous force" that refuses to "concede the moral high ground to the left". Although some conservatives have welcomed the alt-right, others on the mainstream right and left have attacked the movement as racist or hateful, particularly given the alt-right's overt hostility towards mainstream conservatism and the Republican party in general. National Review, for example, attacked the alt-right as "wanna-be fascists ... tweeting from their mom's basement" and bemoaned their entry into the national political conversation. Another National Review writer, Jay Nordlinger, attacked the alt-right for their use of gallows humor, their apparent social Darwinism, their perceived artistic homoeroticism, and accused them of embracing Nietzscheanism in place of Christian values.

Michael Dougherty writing in The Week describes the alt-right as radical working class whites dismayed by globalization and the contempt of "permanent members of the political class". However, Rick Wilson, an opponent of Donald Trump, rejected this distinction, calling the alt-right "crazy ... childless single men who masturbate to anime", and who have "plenty of Hitler iconography in their Twitter icons". Similarly, Cathy Young writing in Newsday called the alt-right "a nest of anti-Semitism" inhabited by "white supremacists" who regularly use "repulsive bigotry".

See also

References

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  2. ^ Gray, Rosie (2015-07-07). "How 2015 Fueled The Rise Of The Freewheeling, White Nationalist Alt Right Movement - BuzzFeed News". Buzzfeed. Retrieved 2016-02-05.
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  4. ^ Betsy Woodruff. "Rush Limbaugh's Favorite New White-Power Group". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 2016-02-05.
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