Argumentative Essay On Alt-Right

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Today, a recent quickly rising hate organization has appeared, adding to history and necessary controversy. According to SPLC, "The Alternative Right, commonly known as the Alt-Right, is a set of far-right ideologies, groups and individuals whose core belief is that “white identity” is under attack by multicultural forces using “political correctness” and “social justice” to undermine white people and “their” civilization."(splcenter.org). Referring back to that they show motives and behaviors of believing they are the best. They are afraid of not being the biggest and the best and refuse not to be. According to Oliver Willis, a researcher at Media Matters for America and a political blogger since 2000, states "in many ways the “alt-right” is a rebranding of classic white nationalism for the 21st century. They largely use social media and online memes to spread …show more content…

According to Luke O ' Brien, a journalist who went to a white nationalist ethnostate and witnessed a convention firsthand, 38-year-old Richard Spencer is the originator of the phrase “alternative right” and the movement’s debonair frontman (O ' Brien, highline.huffington.com). The alt-right believes that what they do is justified and acceptable. They have even gone as far as to use and popularize the degrading term "cuckservative". Deriving from conservatives they view as weak and cuckold- "a man who lets his wife have sex with a member of a minority group" (Shapiro, 41). They also openly proclaim themselves as 1488ers. They appreciate the 14 word slogan “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children”) and what the eighth letter of the alphabet represented when repeated (“Heil Hitler”) (http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/alt-right/). They clearly have no shame in showing and representing what they believe in, no matter how straightforward or offensive it may be to