New York Times: Ever conscious of the importance of marketing, Mr. Damigo, 30, pointed out that Identity Evropa’s website “looks completely mainstreamed.” And it does, featuring men in business suits who also happen to be sporting the Hitler Youth-style haircut.
But for all the fresh approaches — the slick marketing, the internet savviness — the message remains the same. It is one of separation, of supremacy, of a refusal to recognize the equal worth of others who do not have the same skin tone or share the same religion.
The ascension of the alt-right has lifted some familiar names from the muck of the past, including David Duke, the white nationalist, Holocaust denier and former Louisiana state representative whose national profile has been resurrected.
When a reporter telephoned him recently to discuss the alt-right movement, Mr. Duke wasted little time with a question of his own: “Are you Jewish?”
* I thought the article was reasonably fair; the headline atrocious, implying that the entire alt-right is basically Nazi, just undergoing a makeover designed to deceive.
* How many Jews does it take to write a short piece about the Alt-Right in The NYT. The answer is three ( plus an Irish-American ).
* I have yet to see a MSM characterization of the so-called Alt-Right that rings true to me. The same goes for MSM summaries of Pizzagate or “Fake News”. To really describe these things accurately would require having been tracking them for weeks and months and possibly years.
Sulzberger at the NYT may have written his “letter to the readers” immediately after the election vowing to do a better job journalistically, but they are still running articles as straight “news” that read like Op-Ed page punditry.
* Remove all the editorializing language plus the terms “Neo-Nazi” and “White Supremacist” and the article is essentially an endorsement. It also has handy little tags that curious people can grab and pull: “red-pilled”, “Jewish Question”, “White Supremacy vs White Nationalism.”
* Brad Griffin a.k.a. Hunter Wallace responds:
Here’s the truth: the Alt-Right movement emerged in the mid-2000s, it started as a collection of people who hated George W. Bush and were strongly alienated from mainstream conservatism in their formative years, it is overwhelmingly comprised of White males who are Gen X’ers or Millennials with reactionary politics, most come from middle class households, have college degrees and tend to be more secular in their religious beliefs, it grew out of online anonymous messageboard culture (forums, blogs, social media), and the vast majority of these people have never been affiliated with any Neo-Nazi organization, Klan group, or skinhead gang.
The Alt-Right are White males (and a smaller proportion of White females) who grew up in the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s. They are Gen X’ers and Millennials who you can find on almost every college campus in the United States who rejected and rebelled against multiculturalism and political correctness. These are the people who when exposed to doctrinaire multiculturalism took the opposite fork in the road. They resented being demonized and told to be ashamed of their heritage. Whereas the most extreme left-leaning Millennials became SJWs, the most extreme right-leaning Millennials drifted toward the Alt-Right.
What do I know? I’ve only been interacting with these people on a daily basis for 15 years now online and offline.
* “Alt-right” has become a convenient term to tar everyone who sees the corrosive effects of balkanizing multiculturalism and unrestricted immigration as White Nationalists or neo-Nazis. Funny thing is, a lot of those advocating for a white American ethno-state point to Israel as an example of what they want to achieve, wall, legally-discriminated ethnic categories, and all.
