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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: Ralph Wiggum on December 13, 2016, 08:42:06 AM
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DECEMBER 12, 2016
Most Americans haven’t heard of the ‘alt-right’
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/12/12/most-americans-havent-heard-of-the-alt-right/?utm_content=buffer5a1c7&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer&ex_cid=SigDig
News of the political movement known as the alt-right has sparked considerable debate in recent weeks, with President-elect Donald Trump drawing criticism for naming a senior adviser who is associated with it and media outlets wrestling with how to define and refer to it. Most Americans, however, haven’t heard of the movement at all.
A majority (54%) of U.S. adults say they have heard “nothing at all†about the “alt-right†movement and another 28% have heard only “a little†about it, according to a new Pew Research Center survey. Just 17% say they have heard “a lot†about the movement.
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This bogeyman-creation-and-demonization tactic is not new. Create a label for an undefined amorphous or non-existent group/movement and demonize the label. In the 200Xs it was "neocons" (a bogeyman so undefinable that I still don't know whether I am one). The CHILL tried it with her Basket of Deplorables comment and it backfired horribly (from her POV, of course). In the case of this 201Xs bogeyman, Libs & Progs were doubly taken by surprise - by Trump's popularity and by Trump being elected President - and tried to go much too swiftly from inventing the bogeyman to full-on demonization.
The Basket of Deplorables fiasco illustrates one way of turning this tactic against itself. Many normal people recognized the comment's ugliness, redefined it into what it was ("Deplorable" = Won't vote for Hillary) and rammed it down her throat by owning the pejorative. The CHILL is so arrogantly out of touch with normal people that she probably though her comment brilliant; there were probably more than a handful of Hillary Campaign workers who cringed the moment the words left The CHILL's mouth, because they knew it could be a lose-the-election-grade super-gaffe.
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The Basket of Deplorables fiasco illustrates one way of turning this tactic against itself. Many normal people recognized the comment's ugliness, redefined it into what it was ("Deplorable" = Won't vote for Hillary) and rammed it down her throat by owning the pejorative. The CHILL is so arrogantly out of touch with normal people that she probably though her comment brilliant
That is exactly what Bannon did that fateful morning on the radio show. He took the meme and owned it.
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I still do not get the "Alt-Right". :confused:
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DECEMBER 12, 2016
Most Americans haven’t heard of the ‘alt-right’
http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/12/12/most-americans-havent-heard-of-the-alt-right/?utm_content=buffer5a1c7&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer&ex_cid=SigDig
These wack-jobs will keep manufacturing sh#$@ until something sticks. Right now, it looks like the "fake news" one has made it to second gear at least. Most of them are falling short and not getting traction. the whole *-aphobic thing has finally run it's course and everyone just laughs now so it's on to something else.
But don't fret, they absolutely will not stop trying, and "Trump" will keep getting elected.