{"id":18125,"date":"2016-11-23T04:33:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T04:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18125"},"modified":"2016-11-23T04:33:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-23T04:33:00","slug":"alt-right-becomes-euphemism-for-something-ugly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18125","title":{"rendered":"‘Alt-right’ becomes euphemism for something ugly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I hate euphemisms, words meant to clean up ugly images, intentions and motivations.<\/p>\n

“Alt-right” has emerged as the euphemism du jour<\/em> of the moment. It describes haters on the far right.<\/p>\n

We hear the term used most prominently from liberal-leaning commentators, pundits, journalists … whoever. They use it when they reference, say, Donald J. Trump’s new chief political strategist, Steven Bannon, former editor of Breitbart News, a far-right propaganda vessel.<\/p>\n

“Alt-right” movements have popped up all over the country. They are cheering Trump’s election as president of the United States.<\/p>\n

We need to shy away from this “alt-right” nonsense. These groups promote an ugly America. They want to roll back the tide of history.<\/p>\n

“White nationalist” is another make-nice word that means “white supremacist.” No need to define what the white supremacist seeks to do. We all know.<\/p>\n

This use of verbiage to give these groups some semblance of legitimacy is a relatively new phenomenon. Let’s recall, for a moment, the 1960s.<\/p>\n

The nation was roiling with protests from groups one could have said at the time comprised the “alt-left.” We didn’t get that. The “alt-left” described groups such as the Weathermen, or the Students for a Democratic Society. They acted violently to protest government policies in prosecuting the Vietnam War or at home.<\/p>\n

Those lefty groups were a destructive force that contributed little to the nation’s political discourse.<\/p>\n

Today’s righty groups — which we now call the “alt-right” — are just as destructive.<\/p>\n\n

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I hate euphemisms, words meant to clean up ugly images, intentions and motivations. “Alt-right” has emerged as the euphemism du jour of the moment. It describes haters on the far right. We hear the term used most prominently from liberal-leaning commentators, pundits, journalists … whoever. They use it when they reference, say, Donald J. Trump’s … Continue reading ‘Alt-right’ becomes euphemism for something ugly<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18127,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18125\/revisions\/18127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}