What is the alt-right?

[metatron]

The Alt-Reich is an unedifying collection of racists, wierdos, trolls, the intentionally offensive, and edgelords trapped in an endless loop of helicopter and pepe memes.
Their few attempts to move outside of the internet have been met with derision and have been lumped in with the actual freaking neo-nazis. Any ideological platform they may have scavenged from pepe memes goes out the window in the eyes of the masses when seen marching next to people with the hakenkreuz or SS runes. on their flags.

I wouldn't be content about this.
The "wierdos, trolls, the intentionally offensive" are more often than not natural Democrats and Liberals, but, well... i suppose the term is "disgruntled".
You have to reintegrate them not drive them further towards the enemy.

 

[Lexicus]

natural Democrats and Liberals,

No they're not. They're natural Republicans and Libertarians.

You have to reintegrate them not drive them further towards the enemy.

They are the enemy. "Reintegrating" them (not that they were ever 'integrated' in the first place; my guess is these people largely come from conservative or apolitical households) would mean throwing nonwhite and non-male members of the Democratic coalition under the bus.

 

[Senethro]

Deprogramming nazis and helping those who want out of that life is a pretty worthy cause.

But integrating anti-integrationists who want to stay racist/homophobe/whatever isn’t acceptable.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

The way I see it, deprogramming can only be done if the nazis want to change or if we infringe their rights. I don't think the first way is plausible and I don't support the second way.

 

[Lexicus]

I don't think the first way is plausible and I don't support the second way.

I confess that under some circumstances I support the second way.

 

[Ryika]

You won't get the hardcore extremists, but you have to offer those at the fringe of the extremist movement a way to leave, otherwise you're just giving up on people for no reason whatsoever. A lot of those are just... simple people with personal problems who got caught up in a bad environment.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Well thankfully in most cases, the nazis are only tied to their movement through the internet and the occasional rally at confederate statues. It's not like they can't leave already.

 

[Berzerker]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-jr-pennsylvania-chester-county-a8085091.html

the puncher should have said his victim was a neo-nazi

 

[Hygro]

I wouldn't be content about this.
The "wierdos, trolls, the intentionally offensive" are more often than not natural Democrats and Liberals, but, well... i suppose the term is "disgruntled".
You have to reintegrate them not drive them further towards the enemy.

I suppose if you count buzzfeed et al trolls and the mainstream consisting of disgruntled weirdos.