Tom Dupré is no longer a leader of GI. He left precisely because of the neo-nazi background of some other the other leaders that has recently come to light.
That’s the “internal” definition of the alt right, I think the publics is broader, and includes stuff like Peterson or any non mainstream take on similar issues. I actually think that’s a more useful definition as a social phenomenon than a few thousand neo-Nazis
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I prefer the tighter definition otherwise it dissolves into an amorphous mist.
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I think it’s interesting and relevant because it’s amorphous - it’s the first decentralised, Internet-era political event. It absolutely does include the WN element but they are a small part, who inflate their own relevance (for obvious reasons)...
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... many are “ambivalent” to racism or support ideas of racial inequality without agreeing with racial political organisation, and then many others adopt essentially anti-racialist “stop talking about this” / anti-identity politics stances. The unifier isn’t race...
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... it’s opposition to a progressive / liberal mainstream, and their “inquisition” method of enforcing it. Which is why it’s odd the hard left sees the alt-right as its main enemy and not liberalism. Divide and rule
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The new fascists are not just in the right. Most are on the liberal left.
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