Quote: (11-23-2016 11:36 PM)All or Nothing Wrote:
Alt-right is just a term that is being increasingly associated with its creator, Richard Spencer, who is a white nationalist. Might be time to just drop the usage of the term alt-right and disassociate yourself from it since the Stormfront crowd are so desperate to own it.
Conservative counterculture will go on, but the phrase "alt-right" will just die. Why fall on your sword to preserve a phrase created by some weird dude that no one meaningful wants to be associated with?
Because you aren't what you call yourself. You're what other people call you. And other people are calling us "alt-right". Like it or not, we're associated with these losers and there's no easy way to fix that.
To make matters worse, Breitbart's already called itself "The premiere platform for the alt-right." Once you've said something like that you can't un-say it. I don't know for sure, but I would imagine Cernovich, Watson, and others have made similar statements.