What is the difference between Alt R and white supremacists?

[AmandaRuth]

Answer: nothing

No, really this is a honest question, and looking for a reply from someone who is rational.

I am only emotional on the subject. Is there a difference?

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. They are all nazis

[meow2u3]

2. Alt-right is just an attempt to legitimize genocidal white supremacy

So is "white nationalism."

So it's time to quit the euphemisms. Let's call those violent bigots out as the evil terrorists they are.

[AmandaRuth]

3. Agree with both of you

It seems like semantics to rationalize hate. Thanks, much appreciated

[neeksgeek]

4. They're just trying to rebrand. Call them NAZIs.

The jackboot fits well.

[Grassy Knoll]

5. MAGA Red Hat vs A Fine Starched Pointy Hood...

...Other Than That..

[easttexaslefty]

6. Not one single thing

[Thomas Hurt]

7. alt-right is rebranded fascists/white supremacists

just the tea baggers were just rebranded far right nutjobs...

There are many of them and some overlap but you get the idea...

sovereigns/constitutionalists
KKK/nativists/white supremacists/neo-confederates/neo-nazis
Dominionists and Reconstructionists
Randian hyper individualist afficiandos
Birchers
Patriot Movement
Militia groupies
Tax protesters and scam artists
Army of God
Aryan Brotherhood
Christian Identity
Minutemen

The KKK is the oldest conservative/reactionary, white, christian terrorist organization in the US.

[saidsimplesimon]

26. Thank you Thomas

It's a long list of haters. We have truth, facts and love on our side. Sounds simple, eh?

[VOX]

8. None. They are one and the same.

[AlexSFCA]

9. alt right is by definition white supremacy movement

but it also implies a strategy of converting GOP into far (alt) right party. Bannon has a lot to do with consolidating these dark forces. Trump would have never ever won the election without the alt right support. Rep.king of iowa is a good example of the movement. Alt right has gone mainstream in WH, the ideology is widely imposed by trump, bannon, miller, sessions, pence, etc.
Folks in power like to have token blacks or jews that help them to argue they are not racist (Carson, Kushner).

[Oneironaut]

10. The "alt-right" is the "cool" form of Nazism (a.k.a rebranding). They want to rope in teenagers and

young adults, but don't want to call themselves "Nazis." That way, they're better able to reach and poison the minds of an audience they weren't before.

[Me.]

11. Tan Pants & A White Polo Shirt?

[Hoyt]

12. No difference. Both are Deplorables.

[geek tragedy]

13. Same difference as between poo and shit nt

[GulfCoast66]

14. A college degree? nt

[Johnny2X2X]

15. Republicans

They've taken over the Republican Party, the decent Republicans left are clueless or they'd have left the party.

[Hieronymus]

16. I say no difference.

[Iggo]

17. The spelling. (n/t)

[renegade000]

18. Nothing of substance.

Alt-right is just more "post-modern" white supremacy, so if anything it's even more obnoxious while being equally evil.

[Takket]

19. The spelling

[Wounded Bear]

20. About like the difference between...(graphic comment warning ;) )

getting your throat cut and your head chopped off.

[Blue_true]

21. Difference.

The first try to disguise their hate, the second does not.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

22. None. And I really wish people would stop using that "cutesy" alt-right bullshit term. They

are white supremacists. Or Neo Nazi republicans.

[loyalsister]

23. Alt. right is a rebranding effort

Now that they were in close proximity in public, the more they and white nationalists use those names they become more closely connected to active white supremacists.

[librechik]

24. Everybody knows what a Nazi is. Nobody knows WTF Alt-R is. An MP3 player?

Easy to hide your Nazi activities if you don't arouse the Nazi haters.

Yeah, they're despicable cowards playing with toys.

[Nevernose]

25. Beyond the racism, MAYBE it was an effort

To categorize the younger people who would have been called Tea Partiers if they were a few years older. But instead of ridiculous hats, they've got Internet memes and online trolling. They pride themselves on being Shit Lords.

And some of them, the ones I've gotten to know in real life, mostly just like to stir shit up, cause chaos, and upset people. For at least SOME of these people, the trolling just got out of hand and moved into real life.

Most of them are run of the mill fascists and racists, though.

[unblock]

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