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ThinkProgress will no longer describe racists as 'alt-right'
ThinkProgress will no longer describe racists as 'alt-right'
You can learn everything you need to know about the "alt-right" by looking at the man who popularized its name. Credit goes to Richard Spencer, head of the white supremacist National Policy Institute (NPI), and one of the country's leading contemporary advocates of ideological racism.
Spencer and Bannon are of course free to describe themselves however they’d like, but journalists are not obliged to uncritically accept their framing. A reporter’s job is to describe the world as it is, with clarity and accuracy. Use of the term “alt-right,” by concealing overt racism, makes that job harder.
With that in mind, ThinkProgress will no longer treat “alt-right” as an accurate descriptor of either a movement or its members. We will only use the name when quoting others. When appending our own description to men like Spencer and groups like NPI, we will use terms we consider more accurate, such as “white nationalist” or “white supremacist.”
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The point here is not to call people names, but simply to describe them as they are. We won’t do racists’ public relations work for them. Nor should other news outlets.




I like it.
Bravo!
Meanwhile, that picture they chose of Duke. It reminds me of DaVinci's scribbles. You know those famous caricatures DaVinci drew? He was toying with a commonly held idea that as a face ages, it becomes a more exaggerated representation of the person's character. He is looking a little like a caricature of himself, these days.
I have to agree. I take out the pictures of Trump, who has long been a caricature of himself, in previews!
It's pretty hard - impossible to think of the alt-right guys as something else than white supremacists or even Nazis after seeing this video : https://youtu.be/1o6-bi3jlxk
If you follow the "the media" tags here, you'll find quite the discussion (or at least a good collection of links) about the media's attempt to describe white supremacists as what they are. 😉
Thanks, I will look into it. 👍
How can I follow the media tags. Nothing happens, when I click on them. What am I doing wrong?
The first three posts that come up are always "About This Blog," "About This Blog Part II" and "A Guide To My Tags" because those three posts are "pinned" to the top of the community. If you scroll down, you'll see all of the posts that have been tagged "the media."
If that doesn't solve the problem, let me know because it's probably a bug that I'll want to report! 😁
(Also, I don't think I've seen you post here before? Welcome!)
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"We won’t do racists’ public relations work for them."
Hear, hear. It would be nice if others followed their lead.