Alt-right

The alt-right is a right-wing political movement originating in the United States.[1] There are many different type of people in the alt-right. They include white nationalists, antifeminists, manospherians, conservatives, Christians, nationalists and men's rights activists.[2] The group is said to have influenced the 2016 United States presidential election in favor of the winning candidate Donald Trump.[3] The term "Alt-right" is said to have been coined by Richard B. Spencer, who is a political writer and the current president of the nationalist think-tank National Policy Institute.[4]

The alt-right originated on 4chan and other fringe corners of the Internet, such as Know Your Meme and Encyclopedia Dramatica. It emerged during the aftermath of the 2012 episode about Fobos-Grunt on the English Wikipedia and Gamergate in 2014.[5]

As the years pass since Trump's victory in 2016, the alt-right began to splinter, and its split accelerated following the 2017 Charlottesville incident, with those on the Internet saying they don't like Trump anymore.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Mr. Spencer, however you describe him, calls himself a part of the “alt-right” — a new term for an informal and ill-defined collection of internet-based radicals." Caldwell, Christopher Caldwell (December 2, 2016) "What the Alt-Right Really Means" The New York Times
  2. ↑ News, A. B. C. "New documentary on the 'alt-right' sheds light on the movement's alleged roots". ABC News. Retrieved 2020-12-04. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  3. ↑ O'Grady, Jeremy (October 1, 2016). "The rise of the alt-right". The Week. Archived from the original on January 26, 2017. Retrieved April 19, 2017.
  4. ↑ "About". National Policy Institute. 2017-03-30. Archived from the original on 2018-03-28. Retrieved 2018-03-26.
  5. ↑ Lees, Matt (1 December 2016). "What Gamergate should have taught us about the 'alt-right'". Retrieved 2020-01-07.
  6. ↑ Owen, Tess (9 July 2019). "The Alt-Right's Love Affair with Trump Is Over. Here's Why". Retrieved 2020-01-07.
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