FrogReaver
As long as i get to be the frog
Why? It exists, it's a term used by that group to describe themselves, and we all know what it means. I'm not saying anybody who grumbles about feminism is a card-carrying member, but I think it's fair to ascribe certain tactics and arguments to the alt-right.
But if you have another shorthand term to describe "nationalistic with white supremacist and paternalistic tendencies, dressed up for polite company and with a quasi-intellectual basis" I'd be happy to try it out.
Steven Pinker recently got into trouble for saying at a conference:
He was talking about how the arguments of the alt-right seem more intellectual and less overtly racist (e.g. "meritocracy") than the blatant white supremacist stuff, and it is appealing and seductive to people fed up with political correctness. Or maybe who saw 'lesser qualified' students of color get into the college they got rejected from and are bitter and angry and receptive to messages that validate their anger.
(The reason he got into trouble is that Richard Spencer and his ilk cherry-picked the phrases "political correctness has done an enormous amount of harm" and "the often highly literate, highly intelligent people who gravitate to the alt-right" and spread it across the Internet.)
When you would rather be dismissive by calling or insinuating certain viewpoints are ALT RIGHT and thus necessarily racist etc without actually addressing the merits of the viewpoint on it's own then we can't have a discussion on this. When you would rather defend bringing ALT RIGHT into this than apologizing and addressing my viewpoint that triggered these dismissive trigger words then you've made it clear you don't want to have a discussion on it. I'll bow out now.
