This "Alt Right" meme has me furious

[randr]

They are white washing the right wing extremists who have risen their ugly heads.
Trump followers are not even in the "right" camp.
They are fascist, racist, homophobic, misogynistic, and a host of other accurate descriptions; they are not "Alt" anything.
Demand accuracy in reporting. Do not make up a new term for what we need to describe accurately.

[boston bean]

1. They use the name the white nationalist created. It is unbelievable.

They just don't want to call it what it is. Racism/Bigotry.. all those words.. PROPAGANDA

Anyone living today should no longer wonder why many people of Germany went with Hitler. Go ahead and accuse me of breaking Godwins Law, I don't give a crap. it's the fucking truth, we are on the same path.

[emulatorloo]

2. That's what they call themselves.

Reporters didn't create the term

[randr]

3. Reporters have adopted the term

In doing so they are misleading us.

[lake loon]

4. Indeed

They are legitimizing the whole rancid "movement." It's like calling the Ku Klux Klan simply, "the klan," as if it were some roving band of Scotsmen looking for the haggis.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

6. Good. In doing so they're shedding light on it.

[Pathwalker]

5. Maybe the media is also "Alt-Right". Why else would they

want them to be so acceptable? Andrea, Chuck, and most of CNN treated them as if they were all so very reasonable, couldn't see anything wrong with their views - that's not coincidence after coincidence after coincidence, and on and on.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

7. The media loves the term so it can distance them from their Republican BFFs.

[Hekate]

8. The KKK and allies changed their own name to be more socially acceptable. They shouldn't be allowed

...to get away with it.

We can call them "the so-called alt-right," and "what has always been known as White Nationalists, including the Aryan Nation and the KKK, now calling themselves the alt-right," but in a sound-bite and Twitter world, those are all long phrases and may be difficult to get across.

I still think it is greatly worthwhile to use those descriptive terms and to insist on it in the media.

Kind of like my insistence on interrupting the flagellation of Hillary and the DNC by pointing out that she WON by a million votes and counting, so what we need to do is get rid of the Electoral College.