"I'm a Jew, and I'm a Member of the Alt-Right."

[kpete]

Sad deluded Jew says he's a member of anti-Semitic alt-right. The alt-right begs to differ.

https://twitter.com/Yair_Rosenberg/status/769712158175363072


https://twitter.com/Yair_Rosenberg/status/769716825068298240
http://forward.com/scribe/348466/im-a-jew-and-im-a-member-of-the-alt-right/

[Loki Liesmith]

1. Stupid knows no ethnicity

[salin]

2. vile.

[Iggo]

3. Oh, honey, no. You're not.

[2naSalit]

4. Perhaps a troll? ...nt

[oberliner]

5. He runs a website called "The Jewish Right"

Though he only started it recently, so maybe.

[2naSalit]

7. Thanks

I had no idea from whence this one came. I don't have a lot of "off time" until October or November depending on funding. Mostly I'm pounding the pavement or dirt roads out in the wilderness.

[oberliner]

8. Think he is a conservative who wanted to generate hits with his article

I think he is a genuine right-winger who knew he'd get attention for his article and website with a piece like this.

[2naSalit]

10. Truly

a rovian move (adopted and professionalized by drumpf)... spew outrageous bile for attention and getting it.

[MADem]

6. Reminds me of Dave Chappelle's blind klansman! nt

[Old Union Guy]

9. "alt-right" isn't an organization with an official doctrine ...

... it's a catch all self description for right wing fringies who aren't religious right types.

So sure there can be a Jewish one along with the various Nazis, "race realists", monarchists, and assorted other whackos.

[tenderfoot]

11. It could be a sock for Eric Cantor

eom

[DirkGently]

12. Could be trolling them.

Sure seems to have brought out a frantic flurry of explaining, which never goes well for this type of "philosophy."

[ismnotwasm]

13. Might be a kid looking for individiation

God I hope not. If he hasn't experienced how deep anti-semitism actually runs, this is going to hurt horribly.

[Igel]

14. People don't like uncertainty and diversity.

Alt-right is diverse in viewpoints because it's a grab-bag of views set up by others. Some have appropriated the name for themselves, but that doesn't define the group ... Just that part of the group.

Some sections want to define it in terms exclusive to themselves, like some progressives like to rule out some self-described progressives on the grounds of ideological imperfection. Again, it's a diverse group, however some may want to narrow the definition to include just some groups while expecting us to include all groups in that narrow definition.

You can be Jewish and be alt-right: paleocon, nativist, very conservative but not anti-semitic. You can be less conservative and Jew-hating. What you can't do is redefine alt-right to be just one of those but still claim that all groups that are included in the alt-right bucket fit that newly narrow definition.

[Gothmog]

15. The alt right people are scary

[Warren DeMontague]

16. I think a lot of the 4chan trolls and others doing this "for the lulz" are going to be surprised

when they discover that a lot of their twitter pals aren't just saying this crap to get a rise out of "social justice warriors", they actually BELIEVE this Nazi shit.