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RE: A Prohibition Analogy
I don't know the source of this cartoon that has been floating around the net for a while. A reverse image search just seems to link to every pinterest and imgur share. However, it applies to the right as much as it does to the left when they behave as you describe. The alt-right is no more truly virtuous than the SJW left. It's all self-righteous posturing and trampling on others.
I don't know what 'alt right', really is, definitively... lol. It's a term that just appeared in the last couple of years.
I see it in terms those who support authority and those that don't.
'right leaning' perspectives tend to embrace principles of freedom more readily...
SJW and the cannot. As in impossible. Their existence relies on authority.
That's how I see it.
I'm not an ideologue, but can respect the ideology of libertarianism.
I don't respect the leftist ideologies of power and authority.
I'm more pragmatic rather than ideological in my outlook, and historical data that tells me an authority of some kind , always emerges at some point, in any societies evolution. (the Irish brehon law system still relied on an authority).
So I see the 'libertarian ideology', as one to aim for, but never expect it to be the system.
Anything that moves us towards those principles, gets my vote (not that I would vote.. lol)
The "alt-right" is a bizarre amalgamation of libertarian rhetoric and authoritarian nationalist principles, often with a heavy dash of racism and xenophobia.
...it's a strange amalgamation then...
I've been accused of racism and xenophobia so many times I've lost count....
Which is strange if you consider I've lived 30 out my 50 years on this planet as a racial minority on other countries than my own..
I have to go and keep asking my Asian g/f if she thinks so.
I've even emailed my black ex... she was African.
My own experience tells me that people who use those words tend not to have much experience of life...
...Although when I lived in hong kong, I was on the receiving end of racism - daily. It would be seen as racism, but it wasn't - in the definition of western terms..
To understand it, you have to live in the culture for a wile..
Not nice... but you get on with things.