According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, it was meant to “describe a loose set of far-right ideals centered on ‘white identity’ and the preservation of ‘Western civilisation’.” In other words, the movement champions white people at the expense of people of colour and immigrants. Now alt-right is back in the news with Trump appointing Bannon as the new White House advisor. A strong online push has forced media outlets to review their very use of the term alt-right in the wake of the video. The extensions automatically replace all instances of the term “alt-right” on the Internet with “white supremacist” or “Neo-Nazi”. “The term alt-right itself will become synonymous with these beliefs.

Source: Indian Express December 03, 2016 19:31 UTC