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by vixen99 3425 days ago
What assumption laden, lazy use of words. You throw them around as smears and pretend they have specific meaning rather than the emotive symbols they are.

Nigel Farage who convinced a majority of Brits to exit the EU is generally regarded as being altright. Do we therefore conclude that this British majority went along with someone who supports a 'rewarming of Nazism'. This is vile garbage.

Identifying targets precisely and offering arguments is preferable to sloppy innuendo.

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Though you have many insults, it seems that the heart of your argument is:

"Nigel Farage is altright. Altright can't be white nationalism because then Farage would be white nationalist."

However the alt right is not defined by Nigel Farage, rather if Nigel Farage wraps himself in that term than he is defined by it rather than defining it, as it predates him.

Reading anything about the alt-right will show that my estimation of it as white nationalism is correct. Look at

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/five-myths-about-the...

Which points to alternativeright.com

This idea that "this idea is bad, and my politician accepts this idea, therefore this idea can't be bad" is classic backwards thinking. Your insults may reveal that this has hit a sore spot for you. We need to be able to talk about these things rationally, and not emotionally.