No, they are not terrorists. "Terrorist" does not mean "people who cause harm."
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Replying to @egavactip @VicBergerIV and
Terrorism is using violence to push a political agenda or ideology, Charlottesville is proof enough that the alt right is a weaker version of Al Qaeda, both trying to do harm to Americans.
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Replying to @ARScott5875 @VicBergerIV and
The alt right, in the few years of its existence, has less of a track record of violence than every other segment of the white supremacist movement.
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Replying to @egavactip @VicBergerIV and
The Alt right is a rebranding of older white supremacist groups, same ideology, just a new image to attract new suppoters.
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Replying to @ARScott5875 @VicBergerIV and
No, it is not. It is a newish segment of the white supremacist movement with its own unique origins, subcultural make-up and activities. Please don't presume to lecture to me about white supremacy, something I've studied for over 20 years.
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Replying to @egavactip @ARScott5875 and
This is a nearly-meaningless distinction when they affiliate with, overlap with, and organize with established groups like Vanguard, the KKK, and the NSM.
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski @ARScott5875 and
Vanguard America was not established, it is a new group. As for the others, if there are no distinctions between them, then why did you mention Klan and NSM separately? The fact is that there are a number of different types of white supremacists and distinctions matter.
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Replying to @egavactip @ARScott5875 and
I didn't say it wasn't new, I said it was established, which it absolutely was. I don't dispute that different groups exist. I dispute that nitpicking that different groups exist has any meaningful outcome-based impact.
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Replying to @EmilyGorcenski @ARScott5875 and
Suggesting that it is nitpicking is like telling a physician that the differences between two different types of cancer is nitpicking. The fact that different white supremacist movements exist is quite important, actually, both in terms of their appeal as well as targets.
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Replying to @egavactip @ARScott5875 and
As a target of all of them, it doesn't make much difference to me.
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When James Fields attacked, I didn't, for instance, think, "wow he's with Vanguard, so they're probably a bit less misogynist than Spencer's alt right." I thought, "he just ran over a bunch of my friends."
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