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Re:YouTubers Will Enter Politics by namdnay on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @04:24AM (#18281686)
I think it's fair to say that Benjamin is somewhere in the alt-right nebula: Anti-feminism, UKIP, 4chan, anti-"political correctness"... If it quacks like a duck
Re:YouTubers Will Enter Politics by taborj on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @10:02AM (#18283440)
> anti-"political correctness"

News flash, the vast majority of Americans are anti-"political correctness."

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/large-majo...

Re:YouTubers Will Enter Politics by ionised on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @10:19AM (#18283561)
The vast majority of Americans lean right with their politicians so that's not exactly surprising.
Re:YouTubers Will Enter Politics by funkythings on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @06:23PM (#18288023)
The democrats won the popular vote in 2016. Not sure what you're talking about
Re:YouTubers Will Enter Politics by ionised on Wednesday October 24, 2018 @05:25AM (#18290888)
What makes you think the US Democratic Party is left-leaning?

They are positively conservative by global standards.

Re:YouTubers Will Enter Politics by exo762 on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @04:36AM (#18281742)
Alt-right is defined by its identity politics. Anti-feminism is not anti-women's-rights. Stuff you are listing (minus UKIP) is shared by everyone to the right of the progressives. Including liberals.
Re:YouTubers Will Enter Politics by collyw on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @06:32AM (#18282210)
Today I learned that I am alt-right for disliking identity politics.
Re:YouTubers Will Enter Politics by mercer on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @07:09AM (#18282345)
I'd say what is typical of the alt-right is not that they dislike 'identity politics' (the discourse as a whole, so including right and left), but rather that they actively take a stand and engage in being anti-'identity politics'.

I know tons of people who mostly just steer clear of identity politics altogether, both left and right. But it's only the alt-right people I know, along with a chunk of the left, who seem to really invest in the whole discussion.

Re:YouTubers Will Enter Politics by collyw on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @09:57AM (#18283374)
Your description doesn't match with Wikipedias in the slightest. I think you should update it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt-right

(The description mentions Richard Spencer promoting the term, someone who Sargon has debated against - him and his position).

Re:YouTubers Will Enter Politics by funkythings on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @04:56AM (#18281820)
alt-right is right wing identity politics.

Sargon is anti identity politics and a classic, free speech pro-capitalist liberal. I'm not sure where you take your information from

Re:YouTubers Will Enter Politics by collyw on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @10:12AM (#18283505)
People really should check the Wikipedia before downvoting comments like this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt-right

Re:YouTubers Will Enter Politics by belorn on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @12:08PM (#18284615)
The alt-right is a loosely connected and somewhat ill-defined - (summery).

The Associated Press advises its journalists to not use the term without providing an internal definition, due to its vagueness. They described the "alt-right" label as "currently embraced by some white supremacists and white nationalists" that "may exist primarily as a public-relations device to make its supporters' actual beliefs less clear and more acceptable to a broader audience". - Etymology and scope

Both funkythings and namdnay comment above assert statements to what alt-right is and who belongs to it that the wikipedia article do not. Labeling anti-"political correctness" as alt-right is not supported. Journalist Mike Wendling says that alt-right share the view of anti-"political correctness" with chan culture, but that is as far as the wikipedia article is willing to go.

Re:YouTubers Will Enter Politics by funkythings on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @03:57PM (#18286870)
It literally says in the article they are identitarians. Therefore my statement about identity politics is correct
Re:YouTubers Will Enter Politics by UncleMeat on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @09:46AM (#18283310)
Why then is so much of his YouTube channel complaining about feminists?
Re:YouTubers Will Enter Politics by cremno on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @05:58AM (#18282079)
People just have to look at the politicians and parties he's supporting. For example in the last French presidential election he opposed the pro-capitalist liberal (redundant as liberals are by definition pro-capitalism). I wonder what's his opinion on the Brazil one. A moderate social democrat vs. fascist belonging to a party called the "Social Liberal Party"?

He's not even a good source of information as his 3 hours long videos consist of Wikipedia articles he glanced through and repeating extreme right-wing conspiracies (Cultural Marxism, the terrorist attack at the Unite the Right rally).

(Also the only decent anti-idpol people are Marxists.)

Re:YouTubers Will Enter Politics by andrenth on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @06:36AM (#18282224)
“A moderated social democrat” who defends Venezuelan and Cuban dictators and who is running (admittedly!) as a puppet for a convicted corrupt politician who he plans to put out of jail. And the other guy is the fascist?

You are either misinformed about the situation in Brazil or being deliberately misleading.

Re:YouTubers Will Enter Politics by funkythings on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @09:15AM (#18283067)
cultural marxism is an extreme right wing view?

The term "liberal" has changed in the minds of people, my friend. Liberals are now synonymous with left wingers, who are NOT pro-capitalist.

Re:YouTubers Will Enter Politics by poilcn on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @04:51PM (#18287366)
The US is not the whole world. In Europe, liberalism is synonym to «market liberalism».