Alt-Right
Overview
The alternative right, more commonly referred to as the alt-right, is a political movement that emerged in the twenty-first century as a response to growing dissatisfaction with mainstream conservatism, multiculturalism, neoliberal foreign policy, and certain social justice movements such as Black Lives Matter and feminism. The alt-right has neither established nor organized itself as an official political party with a documented list of members. The movement has widely been associated with fascism, racism, antisemitism, Islamophobia, misogyny, and nativism. Many self-professed members of the alt-right object to this characterization, though critics of the movement assert that the tendency of many of its members to employ Nazi symbols, hate speech, rape humor, and pseudoscientific racist claims provide strong support for such associations....
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