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The fall of the alt right is one of the left's greatest victories, what can we learn from it ? (politicalresearch.org)

submitted 1 day ago by IloveyouMF@lemmy.world to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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So the fall of the alt right is more important then it seems, it was the defeat of organized White identity politic that we have not seen before or sense. Yes the right wing has re surged under Trump with new found patronage from powerful people but organized Whiteness has been thoroughly defeated. The new wave of the right is very racially agnostic with many of its big names being POC. If you watch Jreg he coined this "multi racial fascism"

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[–] madlian@lemmy.cafe 19 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Since when did the alt-right go anywhere?

[–] gdog05@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

They went to the top of the government.

[–] ElectricWaterfall@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I guess you could say the alt right is just mainstream republican politics now.

[–] BussyGyatt@feddit.org 8 points 1 day ago

so, the rise of the alt-right then?

[+] IloveyouMF@lemmy.world -7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The alt rights main goal was more power or at least better unity and institutional positions for white people. how has the position of white people gotten better since 2017

[–] Tomassci@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

how has the position of white people gotten better since 2017

Here's the thing, it hasn't. Because that's not how this works. Racist laws don't help white people that are still stealt from, they just harm the minorities more. They look like they improve the standing of whites, but that's merely because they've degrading others rights at a faster rate than whites'.

[–] IloveyouMF@lemmy.world 1 points 5 minutes ago

I am sorry what ? This is so wrong it's insulting to victims of racism, let's say that Black people are not allowed to own houses, that would make houses cheaper for White people as there is less competition for buyers, let's say that Black people aren't allowed to be idk sys admins, that means whie sys admisn have less competition and can demand higher wages.

[–] WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

Everyone in any position of influence in the federal government that isn't white is being labeled a DEI hire and fired. Words related to the discussion of any issue not purtaining to white people have been labeled 'woke' and banned by government censors. The civil rights division of the Department of Justice no longer prevents discrimination against minorities. Instead the civil rights lawyers are being deployed with the goal of destroying minority groups in any manner possible.

[–] IloveyouMF@lemmy.world -4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Where is Richard Spencer now ?

The alt right is organized White identitarianism. That was their main policy innovation.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Are you stupid?

[–] IloveyouMF@lemmy.world -3 points 1 day ago

How am I wrong ?

[–] JGrffn@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

At some point I'm going to start believing that we're clashing with another dimension where this shit actually happened because what the fuck are you on about. In what version of earth was the alt right movement defeated??? Lmaoo