Here's What 'Alt-Right' Really Means According to #AltRightMeans

By Courtney Enlow | Social Media | August 25, 2016 |

By Courtney Enlow | Social Media | August 25, 2016 |

The alt-right is in the news today, thanks to the utterly abhorrent doxxing of Leslie Jones and the fact that Donald Trump is somehow still even a remote possibility for pusher of the button that destroys us all, as highlighted in a speech today from Hillary Clinton. But what is the alt-right? Twitter has the answers.

Here’s what it means according to those who identify as such:

#AltRightMeans WE LOVE OUR COUNTRY!!!! 🇺🇸

— Makada (@_Makada_) August 25, 2016

#AltRightMeans Never let criminals get away with ther crimes #Benghazi pic.twitter.com/DyED14L0OV

— John Davis (@TheFoundingSon) August 25, 2016

#AltRightMeans that we will not surrender our country to the false song of globalism. pic.twitter.com/pzs4ySobWw

— KGB Agent Elizabeth (@MissLizzyNJ) August 25, 2016

#AltRightMeans white people unashamed of who they are and the country they were born in pic.twitter.com/TAbVr0hnMt

— Vendetta Vidame (@Vendetta92429) August 25, 2016

(By the way, that’s a Hitler quote, not a Taylor Swift quote. I’m assuming Vendetta doesn’t know that.)

And here’s what it means to those who have a slightly different opinion on the matter (which is very much my own opinion on the matter):

#AltRightMeans pothead who is racist

— nuanced opinion guy (@charles_kinbote) August 25, 2016

#AltRightMeans the slip on your hood is showing

— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) August 25, 2016

#altrightmeans trying to pretend hatred counts as a political leaning

— Spencer (@Thesixler) August 25, 2016

White supremacy but for special snowflakes #AltRightMeans

— Kaili Joy Gray (@KailiJoy) August 25, 2016

I don't know what #AltRightMeans- are those the ones who hate me b/c I'm a Jew, b/c I'm a woman or b/c I believe a hot dog is a sandwich

— (((maura quint))) (@behindyourback) August 25, 2016

Watch @JoyAnnReid explain what #AltRightMeans on @TamronMSNBC: https://t.co/JCC2IgMoPJ #AMJoy

— AM Joy w/Joy Reid (@amjoyshow) August 25, 2016

Here’s what it actually means: