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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
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.
And words are hijacked frequently so they no longer mean what they originally meant. It kind of drives me crazy. What MOST people do or do not believe may matter to you. I could care less. I do care about the origins of the word and what it was intended to mean.
Though MOST people can be swayed with effort that a word means something else, and then the old meaning seems to vanish. I am not a fan of that and have actually written a series of blog posts on it before. You might like them. They are from months ago.
I agree! But in the case of 'alt-right', I don't think the word was hijacked by White Nationalists. They are the ones credited with coming up with it and they are the ones I can first recall using it.