The Alt-Right, what is it, who is it, and where did it come from? Unfortunately, for a lot of commentators who get a whole lot of air time wringing their hands about the Alt-Right and what it is- this is actually a pretty easy question to answer- if that is, you ask someone who’s been involved with it since its beginning.
Understanding the Alt-Right is important for anyone who believes that free speech is a mechanism critical to the health of our constitutional republic. During their formative period, the Alt-Right adopted a winning strategy to fight off the enemies of free speech- a kind of ideological Excalibur.
To understand their powerful pro-free-speech skills, you have to understand the movement that the Alt-Right grew out of, an online movement called Gamergate. Gamergate (GG) was an amorphous collection of video game fans whose hobby was coming under fire by politically correct authoritarians invading the gaming press.
These PC authoritarians were low-level academics who wanted to become journalists but couldn’t find work other than writing reviews for video games. These are people who don’t necessarily even like video games- and certainly hate a major portion of the video game marketing demographic- straight men, and teenage boys. These angry liberal studies majors are called the Social Justice Warriors (SJW).
As per their wont, the SJWs began accusing ‘gamers’ of being… you guessed it: racist, sexist, misogynist, transphobic, homophobic, ableist… and a few made up on the fly. They said games have to change, and that gamers must leave the hobby. But unlike every other sector of society now conquered by political correctness, the gamers fought back.
Before long a scandal emerged where SJW game journalists were caught trading sex for positive reviews, taking bribes for good reviews, and writing about games they hadn’t played. Thus, Gamergate was born- and gamers took up the banner to protect their hobby from the moralizing, name-calling extreme left. It was an online battle that ended with many offending game journals losing their sponsors and sinking into bankruptcy.
GG had won. But how did they do it? This is an important question, and the answer takes us into the birth of the Alt-Right. They won by doing something that the vanquished foes of the hard left never did- they refused to apologize when SJWs called them bigots. They parodied the accusations of bigotry until the SJWs became so apoplectically insane with rage that the whole world saw them for the vicious cultural vandals they are. Again and again, the SJWs would make violent threats, call for violence, and attack the livelihoods of their opponents until it was clear for all to see who the real villains were.
Consider the case of Matt Taylor, an astrophysicist who achieved greatness by landing a robotic probe on an asteroid. He set a milestone in space exploration with his skill and expertise, but he did it while wearing a shirt with pictures of sexy ladies on it. The feminists lost their minds. Taylor apologized. He cried on camera. And they ate him alive. By his example, the gamers learned to never apologize, that the left never forgives, never forgets, and never lets up when they smell blood. They only destroy, and apologies only signal weakness to an SJW.
The essence of the Alt-Right is standing up for free speech unapologetically, and their movement has been typified by a strange cartoon frog named Pepe. Pepe is an ugly and smug looking cartoon frog used to mock the accusations of SJWs. Call an Alt-Righter a Nazi and you will be presented with an image of Pepe wearing an SS uniform. Call him a sexist and you will receive an image of Pepe in a ‘wife-beater’ shirt.
When you heard the phrase, “Can’t stump the Trump,” during the election it was a reference to our now president-elect using this very GG tactic of not apologizing, and sticking to his guns. Trump knows that apologizing to leftists can only do harm- that’s why he, by default, is Alt-Right- and that’s why the Alt-Right loves him. The Donald even famously embraced the Alt-Right by posting this image on his twitter feed.
Naturally, the Anti-Defamation League and other legacy SJW organizations have listed Pepe- and by extension the Alt-Right- as a hate symbol. But what they don’t understand is that this inchoate frog only shows them what is in their own minds. When they look at the Alt-Right and see the evil they are looking for- they are seeing themselves in a mirror- and that is the characteristic that defines the Alt-Right.
~ American Liberty Report
