I think I disagree Gunny. I would say most are conscious about their racialism.
Maybe most of the Alt-Right adherents on
RonPaulForums are conscious of it, but you forget, I have thousands and thousands of Republican friends and acquaintances from my political background, and may have some perspective on this. Of the roughly 3000 fedbook friends I have who ended up voting for Trump, maybe 2000 of those identify (at least loosely) with the current Alt-Right movement, and out of those 2000 maybe roughly 5 are stuvk on race.
So while your analysis may hold up
on these forums, outside of this place I am seeing a very different story.
Sure, but with Ron, it was outrageously false. With the alt-right, its true.
Well, the vast vast majority of the people
I know who are fond of this "Alt-Right" movement, are not themselves nor do they have anything to do with racists.
You do as you feel led, of course, but mark my words, just like the left's unsubstantiated cries of racism ended up bolstering the right to victory as so many accused knew that the charges against them were false and they got angry...in the same way if/when you accuse a non-racist alt-right sympathizer of 'racism,' all you are doing is pushing them further
into that position out of a rejection of the rhetoric.
Are there actual racists in the Alt-Right and other movements? Sure.
Individual racists whom you can only smoke out correctly on an individual basis. If, however, you collectivise a group as "racist" when maybe 65% of that group doesn't actually care about race, then you end up actually causing harm to YOUR position as the people being accused, knowing themselves that they are not racist, will retrench and double-down.
I used to preach to the left how accusing non-racists of being racists will lead to their utter defeat and they didn't believe me either. They, too tried to formulate arguments how "every conservative" was necessarily a racist (even if they themselves didn't know it). This is why they lost credibility. Too many people who have never had a racist thought in their lives getting accused of racism is going to inspire a knee-jerk. That's how humans work.
So I am going to pass that same warning on to
right-wing nevertrumpers. If you are going to accuse someone of racism, make
darn sure they are actually a racist, and if you accuse an entire movement of racism, make darn sure that movement is in fact at least 90% racist before you do, or all you will end up doing is digging your own grave.
Even if we assume that
75% of the Alt-Right is 'racist,' that still makes a blanket accusation counter-productive because the 75% won't care and the 25% are going to get pissed off and push back (by doubling down).
