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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"alt-left" is a right wing slur
It was coined by the alt-right as a means to legitimize themselves. Every time you use it to attack those on the left, you are legitimizing the right.
Here's an article from when it was coined explaining the right wing origins:
"The term isn't brand new, but it has just now gradually worked its way into the mainstream. It started with alt-right websites like World Net Daily and has graduated to the airwaves of Fox News and Sean Hannity, who has been using it for a couple of weeks now. And Trump, who has distanced himself from the alt-right term, may have played a major role in pushing it into the conservative lexicon.
Nobody even knows what [alt-right] is, Trump told CNN's Anderson Cooper in August when asked about Bannon's comments tying Breitbart to the alt-right. This is a term that was just given that frankly, there's no alt-right or alt-left. All I'm embracing is common sense.
Previously, the term had appeared intermittently on sites like WND and CNS News and even in a syndicated column in Canadian newspapers hitting the media's coverage of Trump. But Trump's mention seemed to bring it to the attention of more mainstream conservatives.
The same night Trump used it, Lou Dobbs dropped a reference on his Fox Business Network show. A couple days later, the Washington Times' Kerry Riddell appeared on Fox News's Media Buzz and took issue with the media trying to label Trump's supporters as bigoted and racist: If they're going to do that, do it with her or do it with her alt-left supporters.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/12/01/meet-the-alt-left-the-gops-response-to-its-alt-right-problem/?utm_term=.5261efeba6b7

Gothmog
(158,176 posts)Hannity made up this term https://www.cbsnews.com/news/what-is-the-alt-left-trump-was-talking-about/
So who uses the term "alt-left"?
It grew out of the conservative media. In particular, Fox News host Sean Hannity, an outspoken supporter of Mr. Trump, frequently references the alt-left on Twitter.
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In a November appearance on Hannity's show, former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci said the alt-left think Trump voters "are misogynists and misanthropes and negative people."
rock
(13,218 posts)They are attempting to make the Left look bad by applying a variant of their description to us, hoping that the foul stench will rub off. Think about it and savor.
haele
(13,883 posts)And made up "Alt-Left" because they knew that at heart, they were Nazis and wanted to project that evil on anyone who would stand against them, no matter if the person opposing them was a conservative or liberal.
How..."Millennial"...or rather, pretend-Hipster-Millennial.
My 5-year-old Granddaughter has more discernment than they do.
Haele
Nitram
(24,938 posts)as "alt-right." "Alt-right" was coined to prettify nazi ideology. The right is very good at coining terms that resonate with the base, and sow suspicion among moderates.
G_j
(40,466 posts)HERE.
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leftstreet
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Expecting Rain
(811 posts)That they exist, or that we ignore them at our peril?
Or that the term pre-dates Hannity?
All these things are demonstrably true.
Lordquinton
(7,886 posts)Or stop using a right wing slur.
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Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)and is likely a troll solely interested in sowing division and shit-stirring.
Lordquinton
(7,886 posts)Sad times when the left are attacked more than the right here.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)some of the actors are playing multiple roles, I think
Lordquinton
(7,886 posts)Just underlines the need for us to call it out when we see it.
Major Nikon
(36,917 posts)Warren DeMontague
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