There are stupid people on both sides and don’t think focusing in on them is terribly helpful in general; if anything it just makes things worse.
Labeling them as “stupid people” makes it easy to dismiss them, until you realize they’ve achieved notoriety, power, and an ability to shift the discourse, and ultimately the direction of society.
The irony here is that this sentence could easily apply to Jordan Peterson, Milo, Paul Watson, Alex Jones, Steven Crowder, and hell even Donald Trump. But the difference is that they have huge followings and devoted followers. That feminist moron that went after the author of the craftsman book that you mentioned may have 40,000 Twitter followers, but that’s nothing compared to what the people I listed above have. I don’t doubt for a second that if that spokeswoman or whatever she is actually is doing vindictive things to people over the titles of their books, then she’s a total idiot that should be ostracized and not taken seriously at all, but to treat her as though she’s a genuine political threat in the United States is frankly absurd.
It seems like anything to the right of socialism is being cast as alt-right in an attempt to lump it all together.
Woah, am I thinking of a different America or something?
There’s some hyperbole in there, but the general sentiment stands. Some of the stuff being labeled as alt-right is just regular old conservatism (and even classical liberalism) that isn’t far left enough for the hard left to consider within the bounds of reason.
I mentioned this earlier before I’d seen this post, but I don’t see much difference between the alt-right and the Republican Party at this point. There’s a lot of overlap with the figures of the right and the alt-right, with even the President of the US doing an interview with fraudulent conspiracy show host and alt-right mouthpiece Alex Jones. Who has the real power here? The feminist on Twitter? Did she ever conduct an interview with Obama where the president legitimized all of her vindictive theories about book titles? I’m not saying that language policing isn’t a problem, but it’s not the main danger right now.