Quote:I can tell you where this "alt-right" thing comes from.  It's a throwback to the infancy of the internet when rather than message boards like this one existed, it was "newsgroups".  At that particular time (mostly in the early 90's) much of the "internet" was all text based.  It's a different source of information other than the state sponsored  MSM.

 

In today's terms, it's websites like Breitbart as well as the Huffing-and-puffing post, Drudge, and other news related websites.  Back in the day, certain topics or certain groups were always preceded with "alt" as part of the web address.

 

Believe it or not, I have a White Nationalist facebook friend, a guy I knew well in my youth.  He's always the first to like posts about my son, has a smile and a friendly greeting for me when we randomly meet about town.  He shares links to sites all the time on his page, and it's so incongruous with the human being he is in person.

 

Breitbart and Drudge aren't the "alt-right".  I'd post some links to actual "alt-right" sites, but I don't think that's appropriate.  Needless to say, there's a large segment of the US population that has a fear of the "others" that are ruining the American dream, and there is a huge forum for them online.  A lot of it is tin foil hat stuff, but as with most beliefs that stick, there's usually a kernel of truth to what they're peddling.

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