Alt-Right? More Like Alte Kakers
Have fun trolling immigrants with your grandma, cucks.
Like a lot of Liberal elites, I’ve spent the last ten days familiarizing myself with the so-called “alt-right” movement, which supposedly helped deliver Trump’s victory and will take up permanent residence in the White House in the figure of Breitbart’s Steve Bannon. According to Bannon himself, Breitbart is “the platform for the alt-right,” and the “alt-right,” per Breitbart’s widely-cited mash note, is this new, smart collection of reactionary ideologies that are mostly probably kidding about their embrace of Nazi and fascist themes, except for that one group, which is most definitely not kidding.
Yesterday, William Gibson observed that this sleek “alt-right” re-branding of white supremacism should be resisted by its opponents, who risk helping them into the mainstream.
Meanwhile, a former colleague notes that the term subtly resonates with the German “Altreich,” or “Old Empire” — a resemblance probably not lost on the Lügenpresse crowd.
Shocked and concerned by this re-emergence of Nazi youth taking place under my nose, I did a little demographic digging and it seems like the “alt” in “alt-right” does stand for “old” — old as in your grandpa, despite Breitbart’s zippy, youthful gloss.
The word “young” appears 11 times in their primer. Nevertheless, here are Breitbart’s age and gender demographics, according to Facebook Audience Insights.
Man, are they old. 73% of the men are over 45, as are 76% of the women. And so many women! This surprised me, and I’m sure would also surprise the “young renegades” of the “manosphere” — to find out all this time they’ve been fighting feminism, not with a pack of virile alpha males, but with mamaw.
At first I thought these numbers could not be right. This is not the image we’ve being given of this “movement” at all. So I checked with Alexa, where the site actually under-indexes with males, over-indexes with women, and doesn’t over-index with an age bracket until you hit 45.
This is definitely mamaw country. Perhaps Breitbart should try going after Good Housekeeping instead of Fox News, whose audience looks like Taylor Swift’s by comparison:
What’s going on here? There are a few possibilities.
- There is a youthful “alt-right” movement like the one Breitbart describes, but they don’t go to Breitbart, or they do in such small numbers that they don’t register. (Then one would have to wonder why Bannon would want to claim a group that he did not actually attract.)
- There is no substantial youth movement, but Breitbart finds it useful to promote whatever they can find of it so that the alte kakers who read Breitbart feel like they are part of something vital, rather than just being angry old farts.
While it won’t bring the election back, this is comforting — like remembering that the majority of voters did not vote for Donald Trump. Far from being a youthful groundswell, this Trump constituency — at least — is the same alt story. Enraged senior citizens, yelling at immigrants to get off their lawn.
