Twitter Is Having A Field Day Mocking “Alt-Right” Racist Trump Fans (TWEETS)
The words “alt-right” have been at the forefront of American politics since the rise of Donald Trump to the Republican nomination. They have been his most ardent supporters, gleefully embracing Trump’s barely concealed racial dogwhistles and ethnonationalist propaganda to the point where they are largely dictating the narrative of Trump’s campaign for him in a flood of hateful online venom.
The alt-right is described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as “big-tent ideology that blends the ideas of neo-reactionaries (NRx-ers), who advocate a return to an antiquated, pseudo-libertarian government that supports “traditional western civilization”; “archeofuturists,” those who advocate for a return to “traditional values” without jettisoning the advances of society and technology; human biodiversity adherents (HBDers) and “race realists,” people who generally adhere to “scientific racism”; and other extreme-right ideologies. Alt-Right adherents stridently reject egalitarianism and universalism.”
But what does all of that mean in practice? Twitter decided to debate what the alt-right actually entails, which resulted in some brutally accurate allegations from liberals that were countered with astonishing racism from the proud alt-right, which merely proved the point of the liberals in the first place.
I don’t know what #AltRightMeans– are those the ones who hate me b/c I’m a Jew, b/c I’m a woman or b/c I believe a hot dog is a sandwich
— (((maura quint))) (@behindyourback) August 25, 2016
#AltRightMeans you wish you were born in Nazi Germany so you could be openly racist or as they call it “not politically correct”
— ܢܘܪܢ (@levantina_) August 25, 2016
#AltRightMeans scapegoating the government, poor people or minorities for bigotry, financial difficulties or lack of opportunity in life
— ♻️ Christopher Zullo (@ChrisJZullo) August 25, 2016
#AltRightMeans Nazi. Really, that’s all it is. I could make jokes about anime body pillows but that’d just bury the lede that they’re Nazis.
— Zeddonymous (@ZeddRebel) August 25, 2016
#AltRightMeans accusing the left of being PC crybabies then having a meltdown for two days over an interracial couple in an Old Navy ad.
— D (@Delo_Taylor) August 25, 2016
#AltRightMeans being the ideological progeny of every fascist movement ever but thinking people who hate you because of it are fascists.
— #BlackAugust (@BlackAutonomist) August 25, 2016
#AltRightMeans projecting all of your attributes; parasitism, laziness, and assorted sociopathic anti-social behaviors on other peoples.
— #BlackAugust (@BlackAutonomist) August 25, 2016
#AltRightMeans We must secure the existence for our waifus and a future for white Ghostbusters.
— Matt Christman (@cushbomb) August 25, 2016
#AltRightMeans “I’m a white supremacist who doesn’t have the fortitude to call myself a white supremacist”
— Black Power…Bottom (@angryblackhoemo) August 25, 2016
Basically it’s “youngish fascist who enjoys video games, doesn’t enjoy exercise and resents and despises women,” right? #AltRightMeans
— Abi Wilkinson (@AbiWilks) August 25, 2016
#AltRightMeans tweeting about how Hitler might have been on to something from behind a Pepe the Frog avatar.
— Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan) August 25, 2016
…and those who took the hashtag seriously but end up merely proving the points of those relentlessly mocking them:
#AltRightMeans not having your sons and daughters locked in chains in their classroom because they are white pic.twitter.com/WVIk0iBIbX
— Mr Bones (@mrb_rides_again) August 25, 2016
#AltRightMeans Islam will no longer colonize our lands, rape our women, and wage Jihad in our streets. pic.twitter.com/Qdh2wZqK6F
— EscapeVelocity (@EscapeVelo) August 25, 2016
#AltRight #AltRightMeans National Socialism pic.twitter.com/bKpv9Aj3uf
— Napoléon A. Lysander (@gottvult) August 25, 2016
#altrightmeans seeing whites as a group, everyone else does. Everyone takes their own side. It’s time to take ours. pic.twitter.com/hu72R5xMIy
— Fionn O’Fearghail (@WhitePrivy) August 25, 2016
#AltRightMeans acknowledging America is part of the Anglosphere and preserving it as such rather than giving US away pic.twitter.com/6BDUtrwvXP
— ☩Lᴇ Cʀᴏɪsé Tᴜᴇᴍᴀᴜʀᴇs (@MrJohnQZombie) August 25, 2016
#AltRightMeans you recognize that all civilizations pillaged and conquered, and don’t feel shame because your ancestors were better at it.
— Walt Bismarck (@WaltBismarck) August 25, 2016
#AltRightMeans no Muslim savages are welcome in the West‼️ pic.twitter.com/edorRsAbZ6
— Cristina Laila (@cristinalaila1) August 25, 2016
#altrightmeans recognizing that the beauty of the European woman must be preserved. pic.twitter.com/nHAczG97V6
— Reinhard Wolff (@whitewolfgeist) August 25, 2016
#AltRightMeans whites deserve homelands of their own just as much as every other race.
— Backpfeifengesicht (@smdhtbqhfam) August 25, 2016
Opinion columnist and former editor-in-chief of Occupy Democrats. He graduated from Bennington College with a Bachelor's degree in history and political science. He now focuses on advancing the cause of social justice and equality in America.