Presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump have both elevated the “alt-right” term in recent speeches and media interviews. In the last 24 hours, the hashtag #AltRightMeans has been trending heavily on Twitter (and there was much glee in the “alt-right” community).
If you’re not familiar with the term “alt-right,” Issie Lapowski breaks it down in an excellent piece for Wired online:
This once-fringe movement is now standing center stage. In her speech [Thursday], Clinton called Trump’s decision to hire alt-right champion Steve Bannon, formerly of Breitbart News, a “landmark achievement for this group.”…
…To be clear, there is only one answer to the hashtag #AltRightMeans. It means white supremacy, researchers say, plain and simple.
“Race is at the foundation of everything to the alt-righters,” says Mark Potok, a senior fellow at the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks the alt-right movement as a hate group. “They have this idea that white people and white civilization is under assault by the forces of political correctness, by social justice and so on.”
The term “alt-right” is merely a rebranding of an ideology with deep, dark historic roots, says Jessie Daniels, a professor of sociology at Hunter College and author of the book Cyber Racism. In fact, you could say it’s a “dog whistle” for white supremacy. “People who are in the United States, mostly white people, are uncomfortable saying white supremacy,” Daniels says. “They’re more comfortable saying alt-right” [Pols emphasis]
If you are someone who is “uncomfortable saying white supremacy,” then you should get just as unaccustomed to using the term “alt-right.”
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WWRJD?
Coloradans in general and Democrats should embrace Colorado's Klan past and make sure everyone knows its political evolution and its continued existence as a mostly Republican phenomenon within today's Colorado.
I think the Klan was bigger in my home state of Indiana during the 1920s than it was in Colorado.
The Klan was pretty much entirely in charge of Colorado state gov as well as gov at local levels in the twenties. Would not be surprised if Indiana was as bad or worse.
Including to treasurer Walker Stapleton, great- grandson of Ben Stapleton, Klansman and 5 term Denver Mayor.