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Re:Spotify is removing Neil Young’s music after falling out ... by jjgreen on Thursday January 27, 2022 @05:14AM (#30098534)
According to Wikipedia [1], the term was coined by American white nationalist Richard B. Spencer and shortened to "alt-right" and popularised by far-right participants of /pol/, the politics board of web forum 4chan.

So more a label that they slapped on themselves.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt-right

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Re:Spotify is removing Neil Young’s music after falling out ... by refurb on Thursday January 27, 2022 @05:23AM (#30098610)
That Wikipedia article seems like a stretch?

A white nationalist launched a webzine called “The Alternative Right”.

Then “His term was shortened to "alt-right" and popularised by far-right participants of /pol/, the politics board of web forum 4chan.”

So other people used the term alt-right and somehow it’s linked to a webzine?

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Re:Spotify is removing Neil Young’s music after falling out ... by jjgreen on Thursday January 27, 2022 @05:32AM (#30098691)
You could always correct that article then.
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Re:Spotify is removing Neil Young’s music after falling out ... by refurb on Thursday January 27, 2022 @06:17AM (#30099070)
I could, but I like my sanity!

But anyways, thanks for the link, I wasn't aware that at least wikipedia makes that connection. I've alway heard "alt-right" used as "a vague collection of far right people that fall outside the Republican Party". So they could include white supremacists, but aren't exclusively white supremacists.

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