The term alt-left started on racist websites in Nov 2016 for false equivalency

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106. Propping up hierarchy takes a lot of double talk

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and that is what this is, a political ethos predicated on the notion that a chosen few are superior to the many. The only slurs that matter are toward them. They can call others whatever terms they want because they are superior. The events in VA have to be made about them because no one else matters.

I glanced up and saw where you were having that discussion. After seeing him continually insist that the party needs to abandon support of equal rights for women to "win," I have nothing further to discuss with him. He has also insisted women and people of color in leadership positions hurt hurt the Democratic "brand" because they turn off the voters he thinks the party should reach. Who is put off by equal rights and seeing women and people of color in leadership positions? Bigots. That's who.

So we go from being told we need to accommodate bigots to seeing a horrific outburst of Nazism in VA. And while the rest of the country is trying to discuss racism and the White House's sanction of it, they decide the focus must be not on fascist racism or hate crimes but them, even though Trump's comment was not directed at them in anyway. While there may be a number of explanations for why people refuse to think of anyone but themselves, none of them can be attributed to leftism, which at its essence is about equality, not the privilege of the few.