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Unpacking "alt-"

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Carl Beijer
Sep 29, 2016
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I’ve been fascinated by the recent popularization of the prefix “alt-” as an ideological descriptor in American political discourse. Anyone who pays much attention to popular politics online knows that it’s been around for quite some time (at least since 2008) in the formulation “alt-right”, which generally just referred to white capitalist ethnonationa…

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