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Igel

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14. People don't like uncertainty and diversity.
Sun Aug 28, 2016, 12:57 PM
Aug 2016

Alt-right is diverse in viewpoints because it's a grab-bag of views set up by others. Some have appropriated the name for themselves, but that doesn't define the group ... Just that part of the group.

Some sections want to define it in terms exclusive to themselves, like some progressives like to rule out some self-described progressives on the grounds of ideological imperfection. Again, it's a diverse group, however some may want to narrow the definition to include just some groups while expecting us to include all groups in that narrow definition.

You can be Jewish and be alt-right: paleocon, nativist, very conservative but not anti-semitic. You can be less conservative and Jew-hating. What you can't do is redefine alt-right to be just one of those but still claim that all groups that are included in the alt-right bucket fit that newly narrow definition.

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