Is there an alt-left?
Is there an alt-left?
Mason Garcia
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Hunter Baker
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Aaron Russell
youtube.com
here's your alternative left
Josiah Baker
fpbp
Gabriel Ward
Trigglypuff ate it.
Michael Murphy
Depends on how you define an alt-left. I can see it taken 3 ways:
One way is to see the "alt-" part as noting extremism. In this way, the "regressives" who advocate safe spaces, privilege checking, "cis" labels, the concept of micro-agressions, etc. would be the alt-left, because they are an extreme, authoritarian group.
In another way you could see the "alt-left" as being the people standing up against the bullshit going on in the left. Liberals standing up against regressive restrictions on free speech (like what I described above), who are socially libertarian, but for socialist/social democratic economic support programs, would be that alt-left.
The third group would be leftist ideologies that are out of the mainstream, like deep ecology/primitivism, anarcho-syndicalism/mutualism/libertarian socialism, social democracy/democratic socialism, communism, etc.
The reason all these comparisons are fair is that the alt-right is to the right what each of those things represents - the alt-right is essentially today's version of right wing nationalism, which is extreme, alternative, and critical of current conservative trends.
Chase Hill
what am I looking at here?
My dick wants to respond to the face but the arms have thrown me.
Ryder Carter
No, there isn't.
Colton Sanders
>Is there an alt-left?
Yes, it's called the "alt-right".
Stop falling for the fucking meme that the SJW left created. The so called alt right is full of liberals, classical liberals and libertarians who are just sick of the nuts who have taken over the left label.
You're letting them have an easy goal by calling yourself alt-right or thinking that this populist resurgence against the establishments and the kooks falls along classical political borders.
Austin Green
>The third group would be leftist ideologies that are out of the mainstream, like deep ecology/primitivism, anarcho-syndicalism/mutualism/libertarian socialism, social democracy/democratic socialism, communism, etc.
This is probably the best answer. The whole idea of being "alt" is that your ideas are outside the mainstream and generally not accepted by the average bloke on the street. The alt-left may not be as large as the alt-right, but it's definitely there.