Steve Bannon says he made a platform for the alt right.
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that platform says alt right's main constituency is white men who want to prioritize the issues of white men
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When someone wants to prioritize the issues of one group over all others we call them a nationalist.
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...for that group. Ergo, Bannon created a platform for white nationalists.
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Bannon thinks that white nationalists need a bigger voice, a bigger platform.
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To refer to white nationalists by their most famous and notorious sect, the Nazi party, is ordinary rhetoric
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so while perhaps she should have written Bannon is a nazi-sympathizer
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How is Bannon a sympathizer with the National Socialist Democrat German Worker's Party?
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Replying to @RachelXDonavan
I mean read my argument but basically Nazi party = white (Aryan) nationalist party...
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Bannon is ideologically sympathetic to alt-right, which is, by his own website's admission, largely white nationalists.
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Replying to @csilverandgold @RachelXDonavan
(this is because
#PresidentBannon is a Western cultural nationalist. Not exactly the same as yt nationalist but close)1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes -
Replying to @csilverandgold @RachelXDonavan
and I would say to use the word "nazi" as a shorthand for all white nationalists is a pretty normal rhetorical move.
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