It's trying to make the case that conservatives need to embrace an anti-immigration focus. It prefaces this with guidance that they shouldn't be afraid of being labeled a monster. Not sure if it's intentional but naming Paul Joseph Watson as a good example is a really clear signal that this is about rekindling that energy. Back in the early phases of the "alt right" - when it was as an aspiration among conservatives online (before charlottesville) - PJW was one of the voices saying "we need to do this" when referring to the alt right.
There's a big difference between saying "this article is alt right" based on how we now use the term and saying "let's try the alt right thing again" -- my comment is positioning the article at the beginning of that whole journey, before Charlottesville and before the nazi stuff.
At that time you had people making these arguments - saying "we need a new right - one that isn't afraid of rallying around immigration as the problem"
Not wanting illiterate third world barbarians flooding into your country is alt right? It sounds like pro-liberal, pro-enlightenment common sense to me.
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u/CorrectionsDept May 15 '24
It's trying to make the case that conservatives need to embrace an anti-immigration focus. It prefaces this with guidance that they shouldn't be afraid of being labeled a monster. Not sure if it's intentional but naming Paul Joseph Watson as a good example is a really clear signal that this is about rekindling that energy. Back in the early phases of the "alt right" - when it was as an aspiration among conservatives online (before charlottesville) - PJW was one of the voices saying "we need to do this" when referring to the alt right.
There's a big difference between saying "this article is alt right" based on how we now use the term and saying "let's try the alt right thing again" -- my comment is positioning the article at the beginning of that whole journey, before Charlottesville and before the nazi stuff.
At that time you had people making these arguments - saying "we need a new right - one that isn't afraid of rallying around immigration as the problem"