They all wear suits and ties, address the waiter as “sir” and identify as the “alt right”, the much-discussed nouvelle vague of racism. Milo casts the alt right as principally a trolling enterprise, dedicated to attacking liberal shibboleths for the “lulz”– there’s precious little actual bigotry. Also: “Diversity equals white genocide.” The alt right loves to evoke genocide while harbouring Holocaust deniers. Like all conspiracy theorists they see the hidden hand that guides all things, but for the alt right that hand is Jewish. Because behind the trolling veneer, the alt right is more traditional than alt.

Source: The Guardian October 09, 2016 08:03 UTC