mediamattersforamerica: The so-called “alt-right” are neo-Nazis by any other name,

mediamattersforamerica:

The so-called “alt-right” are neo-Nazis by any other name, and that’s how the media should address them.

[Screenshots of a series of tweets by Andray D. (twitter user AndrayDomise) on 18 November 2016, as follows:

So I’ve noticed journalists are struggling with what to call the neo-Nazi/alt-right/white nationalist movement. Allow me to offer some help.

The actual factual term is “neo-Nazi.” If you trace the roots of the movement to their origin, you end up at Stormfront and other hate sites

Stormfront, White Aryan Resistance, other popular sites are the content origin of white nationalist stories & rhetoric for the past decade

The content from these sites end [sic] up disseminated via 4chan, Reddit, other content aggregators. Eventually repackaged in “alt-right” sites

When Steve Bannon took over Breitbart after the death of Andrew Breitbart himself, the site began a tilt towards white nationalism…

Now this part is important. People generally have an image of neo-Nazis as hypermasculine boors with muscles, tattoos, and bald heads.

Yiannopoulos and his merry band cut against that image. Many are soft-spoken, well-dressed, and highly educated. Which makes them dangerous.

Because they’re often charming enough to get even the leftest of left-wing publications to describe them this way:

[Screenshot of a headline from October 27th: Meet The Dapper White Nationalist Who Wins Even if Trump Loses]

They’re not stupid people. In fact, they’re very highly educated. And they call themselves the “alt-right” for a reason.

And they know people are trained to reflexively hate anything with the word “Nazi” in it. We’ve had almost a century of social conditioning.

So they use the phrase “alt-right,” which not only sounds innocuous, but sounds like counterculture to establishment Republican elitism

So when you call them “alt-right,”, you’re engaging them on terms they’ve set, and spreading the false perception of “alternative views.”]