What will happen to the alt-left during Biden? (user search)
       |           

Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
Did you miss your activation email?
June 04, 2024, 02:51:58 PM
News: Election Simulator 2.0 Released. Senate/Gubernatorial maps, proportional electoral votes, and more - Read more

  Talk Elections
  General Politics
  Political Geography & Demographics (Moderators: muon2, 100% pro-life no matter what)
  What will happen to the alt-left during Biden? (search mode)
Pages: [1]
Author Topic: What will happen to the alt-left during Biden?  (Read 865 times)
Nyvin
Junior Chimp
*****
Posts: 7,697
United States


« on: January 17, 2021, 04:25:30 PM »

"Alt-Left" isn't a term.   The only reason "Alt-Right" is a term is because that's what the right wing groups that hated the GOP establishment started calling themselves.

For the left it's usually just "progressives"
Logged
Nyvin
Junior Chimp
*****
Posts: 7,697
United States


« Reply #1 on: January 17, 2021, 07:28:58 PM »

"Alt-Left" isn't a term.   The only reason "Alt-Right" is a term is because that's what the right wing groups that hated the GOP establishment started calling themselves.

For the left it's usually just "progressives"
Mmm, no. "Alt-left" was an established term before Trump came along, used to refer to the subsets of the left that peddled "anti-war rhetoric" that was literally just war crimes denial and support for dictators, coined by those on the left who DIDN'T ascribe to such conspiracy theories. The right tried to co-opt the term to hit the entirety of the left over the head with, but that doesn't mean that there isn't an actually existing "alt-left".

As for what these people will do? They'll continue to peddle racist conspiracy theories about brown people protesting for democracy being a CIA psyop, like they have for decades already. Unfortunately, these people aren't going away.

Not true.   Alt Left just started up as a counter to people who thought "alt right" was some kind of insult left wing people made up, even though it never was.   No one ever referred to themselves as "alt left" because the left wing in this country was always marginalized anyway except in the last 4-6 years maybe.

Hence there couldn't be an "alt left" because there really wasn't any "mainstream" or "establishment" left.
Logged
Pages: [1]  
Jump to:  


Login with username, password and session length

Terms of Service - DMCA Agent and Policy - Privacy Policy and Cookies

Powered by SMF 1.1.21 | SMF © 2015, Simple Machines

Page created in 0.022 seconds with 11 queries.