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Foamfollower

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Tue Aug 15, 2017, 05:16 PM Aug 2017

Trump just redefined Alt Left and I now find myself a part of the Alt Left. [View all]

It's a little disturbing, but I find myself now a member of the Alt Left because the following are now Alt Left

Black
Hispanic
Asian
LGBTQ
Anti-Fascist
Anti-Nazi
Hate Hitler.
Hate Mussolini
Hate Illinois Nazis
Believe people are people and nobody is "sub-human"
Believe in equal justice for all.

Based on the president's remarks, if Hitler is the ultimate marker for Alt-Right, that makes Gandhi the ultimate marker for the Alt-Left.

Okay now, discomfort gone. I am now "Alt-Left" and proud because that puts me in the good company of the Greatest Generation, Gandhi, and Martin Luther King Jr.

I can accept that with pride.

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