Alt-Right didn’t work for the progressives, back to the tried and true White Supremacy phrase.
Via NBC News:
A group opposing what it called normalization of white nationalism under the term “alt-right” has created a Google Chrome extension that changes the phrase to “white supremacy.”
The phrase “alt right” or “alternative right” came to the fore during the presidential election, and Donald Trump’s chief strategist Steven Bannon has said he wanted the news site he once managed, Breitbart.com, to be “a platform for the alt-right.”
“This gentle sounding name is the rebranding of White Supremacy and White Nationalism, and its normalization must be stopped,” the group “Stop Normalizing” says on its website.
Trump has said he condemns and disavows the alt-right. Critics have accused Trump of using language on the campaign trail seen as a dog-whistle to white supremacists. The official newspaper of the Ku Klux Klan endorsed Trump, and former KKK grand wizard David Duke has said he supported some of the GOP nominee’s stated policies. Trump and his campaign have disavowed the support of both.
Trump’s transition team said in a statement last week that the president-elect “has continued to denounce racism of any kind.”
The Chrome extension has been downloaded more than 2,100 times as of Tuesday afternoon from Chrome’s web store. The extension was announced Nov. 18. An associated Twitter account has been correcting headlines of online news articles that use the term.