Its Pointless To Try To Reason With The Alt-Right

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by Angelina Chapin at the Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/its-pointless-to-try-and-reason-with-the-alt-right_us_586d4218e4b0eb58648ba313

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In the group’s alternative universe, a white genocide is imminent, because other ethnicities have inched their way toward equality. Alt-righters believe immigrants threaten white dominance, Jews control the world through the global financial system and Black Lives Matter protesters are terrorists.

You can’t talk about racism with a group that actually believes the white race is under threat and that the fatal police shootings of black men are part of a “sinister plot” to oppress cops. There is no reasoning with those who deny the ongoing effects of colonialism and slavery.

The alt-right’s stance on gender equality is also based on a rejection of historical fact. The movement is full of men’s rights activists (MRAs) who believe men have always been the more oppressed gender. That’s right. They think women ― who couldn’t vote, own property or credit cards, get a divorce or work outside the home ― were privileged compared to men, who had to earn money and fight in wars.

It’s impossible to discuss women’s rights, misogyny or sexual violence with a group that denies how the economic and political systems created by men treat women as second-class citizens. There’s no reasoning with anyone who thinks the goal of feminism is to persecute the male species.




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1. Key word: reason. Reason would stipulate cognitive rational thought

Alt-right is impulsive and irrational. Their IQs are low, they live in a news bubble of their own creation, and they act out violently when confronted. This is much like the dog that bites the hand that feeds it, except most dogs can have a complete reversal in personality and become loving companions.

[uppityperson]

2. Don't legitimize "alt-right", call them what they are. RW bigots

[applegrove]

3. The white genocide is the birth rate for white people (it is the

same for any woman who has access to a job and some security). Why the Alt Right attack white women. They want them barefoot and pregnant and in the kitchen. Since men will follow women everywhere, the Alt Right have to try and lower the self esteem of women to get them back under control.

You will come across some who don't want lives to be saved in Africa too. I read one nut say that africans would be allowed to have sex but not children. They are making plans way into the future where rich white people live forever and thus, the population has to decrease (if people live to 130 that adds two whole generations of humans to the population...there is not enough room for that.....so it is all about who gets the medical care to keep them alive when the science gets there). Not everybody can live forever obviously. I say it should go to humans who have done something amazing with their lives, like Maya Angelou, not to the richest like the Koch brothers. Think if it went to the richest only then there would be two generations more of rich white people alive to vote republican in elections.

[Initech]

5. I was watching Mad Max Fury Road the other day.

Great movie, but that I can't help but picture that seen where they show Immortan Joe's compound in the beginning of the movie, and all those women are chained up and making babies and breast milk, that is how the alt right views women and minorities, and anyone else who's not a rich white man.

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4. They are small, scared people

Their greatest fear is that they will be treated like they treated others if they slip from their privileged position. And they're well aware of how badly they treated everyone else. As Frank Herbert observed, "Fear is the mind-killer." That means they aren't subject to reason; but they must be opposed always and everywhere. They'll get over their fear or they'll destroy themselves. If they choose the latter course, sadly, they will take some others with them.