The coded language of the alt-right is helping to power its rise

[blueseas]

By Steven Petrow Columnist, Civilities April 10


I’ve always said that I appreciate all my readers, both those who agree with me and those who don’t. But lately I’ve been puzzled by the new slurs directed at me by some of the latter. Many I didn’t even understand, so I did some digging.

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But here’s the nasty undercurrent: These new words are intrinsic to the alt-right’s rise, according to Lakoff. He connects this to the Nazis and the coded language (prime example: “the master race”) that eventually allowed them to topple governmental institutions. “The strategy is to control discourse,” Lakoff points out. “One way you do that is preemptive name calling . . . based on a moral hierarchy.”
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Snowflake. This is no compliment, even if you like to think that you’re one of a kind. At best, it’s a derisive term for someone considered entitled, which to those using it includes people of color, LGBT folks, students — even Meryl Streep for her pro-kindness stance at the Golden Globes. Sarah McBride of the Human Rights Campaign told me that it’s often used against LGBT people in reference “to pronoun usage, particularly nonbinary pronoun use, and the efforts on college campuses to be more aware and affirming of people’s pronouns.” Used in a sentence, via Urban Dictionary: “Hey snowflake, Trump won, deal with it.” With one word you’re dismissed as weak, feminine, juvenile — a loser.

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[Sculpin Beauregard]

1. We need to start calling them the Alt-Wrong

Or the Alt-Facts crowd.

[dhill926]

2. I tend toward the more prosaic...

fucking assholes....

[Sculpin Beauregard]

3. I could live with that, too.

[weydowner]

4. Blame the Media. part 73

Alt-Right does sound innocuous and modern and new-technological - no wonder it has no bad connotations yet; strange that it was totally unknown before Donald started dragging strange ideas and strange individuals from under a stone. Same thing with most of these new 2016-7 expressions.
And of course the media just LOVES novelty. If it referred to them unfavourably, then this foolish bandwagon wouldn't even have got started and the bands of deplorables would have nothing to call themselves.

These people have always existed; now that the Second World War is not part of the picture but has faded to history, the sheer badness and nastiness of that period has faded even for old people. Even in Donald's America, there should be a way for the good to triumph and the evil to be punished, unfortunately, like the gentle rain, everybody gets wet.
Pity the Immoral people stole the umbrellas.

[blueseas]

5. Hello and Welcome

Thanks for your insight.

[Odoreida]

6. It's not really "coded language" because ...

... because the RW are no longer making any attempt to hide their meaning.

For example, inventing new terms of abuse ("snowflake&quot isn't code. It's in your face aggression.

Really they are now completely out in the open about being hateful.