TOBY SHAPSHAK: Call it what it is: racist bullying
New phrases shouldn’t hide the sickness of the hatred and intolerance on display in Charlottesville
One has to wonder why "alt-right" is used to describe what are really fascist, racist, and anti-Semitic neo-Nazis. In this age of new phrases for social media, Web 2.0 and other ways of describing innovations, we have stopped calling a spade a spade. The Internet has enabled a vast network of usefulness and unprecedented communication and access to information. It has also given society’s bottom-feeders and fascist scum a platform to spew hate and intolerance. Thankfully, Internet service providers and other online services are refusing to host such hatred. The phrase "alt-right" was reportedly coined by US white nationalist Richard Spencer. What we saw in Charlottesville is rooted in ignorance and fear, misguided anti-immigrant rage, and shameful anti-Semitism. The far-right crowd chanted "Jews will not replace us" and the Nazi slogan "blood and soil". Pretending it’s some kind of new online movement by calling it "alt-right" hides the ugly face of it. It’s a form of bullying, hidd...
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