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RE: If you are calling yourself Alt-Right you might want to be careful... I debated and then was given some info
Also there is only one person for whom you can decide what is important or not. Yourself. ;)
I'm sure there were good Nazis too but so what? Words matter. The origin of the term and what MOST people believe it to mean does matter. Words are how we communicate with one another and it's generally good to have a reasonably common definition of them. The term 'alt-right' by all accounts was coined by a white nationalist who had a meeting after Trumps victory where Nazi propaganda was repeated and Nazi salutes were given (the term was coined some years ago but it's the same guy). I'm not sure why anybody who does not support those actions would use that term to define themselves. It would be like me calling myself a Nazi and arguing that all Nazi's don't support taking over Europe and Jewish genocide. It may technically be true but that is what the group is known for. There may well be "good" alt-right people but then they must not know the origin of the word and what the philosophy was of those who originated it.
I guess I'm just not understanding why it is a term people would want to use for themselves.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt-right