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You literally just left out the previous sentence in the quote here where I say I’m against white supremacy and neo-Nazism. Note “as a” meaning the fun, meme producing people who are falsely labeled racist by pretend journalists like you.

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Noah Shachtman

@NoahShachtman

Jul 20, 2018

This is hilarious. Here's Rubin in 2016: “the alt-right as a shitposting, fun, call out the bullshit, mock-the-power thing is amazing... you know where the funny stuff is coming? It’s coming out of the alt-right." twitter.com/21logician/sta

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they're using this smear tactic against me too. Took something I wrote about Alt Right, before Hillary made Richard Spencer famous and turned the term into a white supremacist bugbear.

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Confessions of a Concerned Citizen

By Ron Bassilian I suppose my name has gotten out a bit ahead of me. In the past few months I’ve gone from casual observer of Culver City politics, to concerned citizen, to specter of the "Alt Right"...

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"I defined [Alt Right] to mean anyone who was fed up with leftist orthodoxy and was dropping off that bandwagon. My only crime was that Hillary had the bigger platform to define it as the white supremacist smear it is today."

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Ron Bassilian

@Ron4California

Jul 20, 2018

I just debated an actual Alt Righter. He sounds exactly like the #DSA minus the transgender politics. I don’t know why these guys don’t join the Democrats.