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| Some have traced the recognition of the alt-lite, as a distinct entity from the alt-right, to what is seen as the consolidation of the alt-right as a white nationalist movement. In a speech given to a meeting of white nationalists in November 2016, ] (who is often credited with creating or popularizing the term "alt-right") quoted Nazi propaganda and declared "Hail Trump, hail our people, hail victory!" while members of the audience responded to this by giving ].<ref name=latimes/><ref>{{cite news|author=Staff|title='Hail Trump!': Richard Spencer Speech Excerpts|date=November 21, 2016|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o6-bi3jlxk|newspaper=]|accessdate=October 30, 2017}}</ref> | Some have traced the recognition of the alt-lite, as a distinct entity from the alt-right, to what is seen as the consolidation of the alt-right as a white nationalist movement. In a speech given to a meeting of white nationalists in November 2016, ] (who is often credited with creating or popularizing the term "alt-right") quoted Nazi propaganda and declared "Hail Trump, hail our people, hail victory!" while members of the audience responded to this by giving ].<ref name=latimes/><ref>{{cite news|author=Staff|title='Hail Trump!': Richard Spencer Speech Excerpts|date=November 21, 2016|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o6-bi3jlxk|newspaper=]|accessdate=October 30, 2017}}</ref> | ||
| Subsequent to this, various figures who had been linked to the alt-right distanced themselves from Spencer's remarks and suggested that two factions had emerged from the alt-right.<ref name=newsweek>{{cite web|last=Ziv|first=Stav|url=http://www.newsweek.com/alt-right-or-alt-lite-new-guide-adl-classifies-right-wing-activists-639158|title='Alt-right' or 'alt-lite'? New guide from ADL classifies right-wing activists|date=July 19, 2017|work=Newsweek|accessdate=July 20, 2017}}</ref><ref name=ADL>{{cite web|author=Staff|url=https://www.adl.org/news/press-releases/key-leaders-alt-right-vs-alt-lite|title=From Alt-Right to Alt-Right: Naming the Hate|publisher=Anti-Defamation League|date=July 18, 2017|accessdate=July 18, 2017}}</ref><ref name=latimes |
Subsequent to this, various figures who had been linked to the alt-right distanced themselves from Spencer's remarks and suggested that two factions had emerged from the alt-right.<ref name=newsweek>{{cite web|last=Ziv|first=Stav|url=http://www.newsweek.com/alt-right-or-alt-lite-new-guide-adl-classifies-right-wing-activists-639158|title='Alt-right' or 'alt-lite'? New guide from ADL classifies right-wing activists|date=July 19, 2017|work=Newsweek|accessdate=July 20, 2017}}</ref><ref name=reuters/><ref name=ADL>{{cite web|author=Staff|url=https://www.adl.org/news/press-releases/key-leaders-alt-right-vs-alt-lite|title=From Alt-Right to Alt-Right: Naming the Hate|publisher=Anti-Defamation League|date=July 18, 2017|accessdate=July 18, 2017}}</ref><ref name=latimes/> This was the result of a "rift" within the wider alt-right movement between those favoring white nationalism and explicit racism on the one hand and more moderate forces on the other. Some members of the latter group at first adopted the term "]" to describe themselves, with ] saying of the division that "he lines are drawn and the fracture is more or less complete".<ref name=reuters>{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-deploraball-idUSKBN14I1Y4|newspaper=]|last=Kearney|first=Laila|title=Trump fans' 'Deploraball' party shows rift in alt-right movement|date=December 29, 2016|accessdate=December 29, 2016}}</ref> The term "alt-lite" is thought by the Anti-Defamation League to have been created by members of the alt-right to distinguish themselves from right-wing groups and ideologies who reject ] and ].<ref name=ADL/> | ||
| The division between alt-right and alt-lite received further media attention in June 2017, when the two factions found themselves divided over the issue of Spencer's attendance at a "Free Speech" rally in Washington, D.C.<ref name=haaretz1>{{cite news|url=http://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-1.797372|title=The Jewish Provocateur Caught in the Turf War as the 'Alt-right' Battles the 'Alt-light'|newspaper=]|last=Krupkin|first=Taly|date=June 23, 2017|accessdate=July 23, 2017}}</ref> Certain individuals protested Spencer's involvement by organizing a competing rally on the same day, with Spencer referring to such individuals as "alt-lite" and saying that "the movement needs a good purge".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/alt-right-and-alt-lite-conservatives-plan-dueling-conservative-rallies-sunday-in-dc/2017/06/22/242d8de2-56bd-11e7-9fb4-fa6b3df7bb8a_story.html|newspaper=]|title='Alt-right' and 'alt-lite'? Conservatives plan dueling conservative rallies Sunday in D.C.|last=Moyer|first=Justin|date=June 23, 2017}}</ref> | The division between alt-right and alt-lite received further media attention in June 2017, when the two factions found themselves divided over the issue of Spencer's attendance at a "Free Speech" rally in Washington, D.C.<ref name=haaretz1>{{cite news|url=http://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-1.797372|title=The Jewish Provocateur Caught in the Turf War as the 'Alt-right' Battles the 'Alt-light'|newspaper=]|last=Krupkin|first=Taly|date=June 23, 2017|accessdate=July 23, 2017}}</ref> Certain individuals protested Spencer's involvement by organizing a competing rally on the same day, with Spencer referring to such individuals as "alt-lite" and saying that "the movement needs a good purge".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/alt-right-and-alt-lite-conservatives-plan-dueling-conservative-rallies-sunday-in-dc/2017/06/22/242d8de2-56bd-11e7-9fb4-fa6b3df7bb8a_story.html|newspaper=]|title='Alt-right' and 'alt-lite'? Conservatives plan dueling conservative rallies Sunday in D.C.|last=Moyer|first=Justin|date=June 23, 2017}}</ref> | ||
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The "alt-lite", also known as the "alt-light" and the "new right", is a loosely-defined political movement consisting of various politically-oriented groups, activists and commentators with right-wing views, who to varying degrees oppose mainstream conservatism. The alt-lite is frequently contrasted with and compared to the political alt-right, with which it shares some features. According to Oren Segal of the Anti-Defamation League, the alt-lite "operates in the orbit of the alt right". Others have described it as an offshoot of the alt-right, but the alt-lite remains distinct from the alt-right in that it claims to reject identity politics—including the white nationalism and racialism of the alt-right—though they share other key features and beliefs.
History
Some have traced the recognition of the alt-lite, as a distinct entity from the alt-right, to what is seen as the consolidation of the alt-right as a white nationalist movement. In a speech given to a meeting of white nationalists in November 2016, Richard B. Spencer (who is often credited with creating or popularizing the term "alt-right") quoted Nazi propaganda and declared "Hail Trump, hail our people, hail victory!" while members of the audience responded to this by giving Hitler salutes.
Subsequent to this, various figures who had been linked to the alt-right distanced themselves from Spencer's remarks and suggested that two factions had emerged from the alt-right. This was the result of a "rift" within the wider alt-right movement between those favoring white nationalism and explicit racism on the one hand and more moderate forces on the other. Some members of the latter group at first adopted the term "New Right" to describe themselves, with Mike Cernovich saying of the division that "he lines are drawn and the fracture is more or less complete". The term "alt-lite" is thought by the Anti-Defamation League to have been created by members of the alt-right to distinguish themselves from right-wing groups and ideologies who reject white supremacy and white nationalism.
The division between alt-right and alt-lite received further media attention in June 2017, when the two factions found themselves divided over the issue of Spencer's attendance at a "Free Speech" rally in Washington, D.C. Certain individuals protested Spencer's involvement by organizing a competing rally on the same day, with Spencer referring to such individuals as "alt-lite" and saying that "the movement needs a good purge".
Beliefs
The alt-lite has been characterized by support for civic nationalism as opposed to the ethnic nationalism of the alt-right and corresponding opposition to globalism. Other common features include broad support for President Donald Trump, and criticism of and/or opposition to political correctness, Islam, feminism, welfare, the legal profession, big government, lobbyists, donors, special interests, government corruption, anti-rightist and/or pro-establishment fake news, and illegal immigration. The movement is also seen as engaging in conspiracy theories, including the propagation of the Pizzagate conspiracy theory. It has been described as a "misogynistic" and "xenophobic" movement by the Anti-Defamation League.
Alt-right figures have accordingly described Breitbart News as "alt-lite" due to the lack of an explicitly racial element in the form of nationalism which it gives a platform to as well as the fact that it is pro-Israel.
Wired has referred to the alt-lite as "the alt-right's relatively mild-mannered sibling".
Alt-lite beliefs are influenced by the attitude of postmodernism in which skepticism and irony reject grand narratives and ideologies of realism and social progress while struggling to retain the freedom of expression, experimentation, radicalism and disregard towards conventional expectations.
Individuals associated with the alt-lite include Mike Cernovich, Gavin McInnes, Jack Posobiec and Laura Loomer.
See also
References
- ^ Marantz, Andrew (June 6, 2017). "The alt-right branding war has torn the movement in two". The New Yorker. Retrieved June 6, 2017.
- ^ Ziv, Stav (July 19, 2017). "'Alt-right' or 'alt-lite'? New guide from ADL classifies right-wing activists". Newsweek. Retrieved July 20, 2017.
- ^ Staff (July 18, 2017). "From Alt-Right to Alt-Right: Naming the Hate". Anti-Defamation League. Retrieved July 18, 2017.
- Keegan Hankes. "With Questions of Ideological 'Purity Tests,' the Alt-Right Stumbles". Southern Poverty Law Center.
- ^ Pearce, Matt (November 29, 2016). "The 'alt-right' splinters as supporters and critics agree it was white supremacy all along". Los Angeles Times. ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved May 9, 2017.
- Staff (November 21, 2016). "'Hail Trump!': Richard Spencer Speech Excerpts". The Atlantic. Retrieved October 30, 2017.
- ^ Kearney, Laila (December 29, 2016). "Trump fans' 'Deploraball' party shows rift in alt-right movement". Reuters. Retrieved December 29, 2016.
- Krupkin, Taly (June 23, 2017). "The Jewish Provocateur Caught in the Turf War as the 'Alt-right' Battles the 'Alt-light'". Haaretz. Retrieved July 23, 2017.
- Moyer, Justin (June 23, 2017). "'Alt-right' and 'alt-lite'? Conservatives plan dueling conservative rallies Sunday in D.C." The Washington Post.
- Wilson, James Q. (2018). American Government: Institutions and Policies. Cengage Learning. p. 269.
- Staff (September 7, 2016). "Pepe and the stormtroopers". The Economist. Retrieved May 18, 2017.
- Ellis, Emma Grey (May 10, 2017). "The Alt-Right's Newest Ploy? Trolling With False Symbols". Wired. Retrieved May 18, 2017.
- Brooker, Peter (2018) . Modernity, Postmodernism, The New Modern. Longman Group Limited.
- Krupkin, Taly (July 20, 2017). "'Alt-lite' Trump Supporters Blast ADL Over Inclusion on 'Hate List'". Haaretz. Retrieved July 20, 2017.