CNN Claims The ‘Alt-Left’ Is Not A Thing

CNN is more than happy to condemn the racists, bigots, sexists and homophobes on the “alt-right,” but listen up. Don’t you DARE talk about the “alt-left”.

Come on. The “alt-left”? That’s not even A Thing. You jerks made that term up. According to CNN, anyway.

“The ‘alt left’ is not a thing. It’s just an insult”

What is the ‘alt-left’? Experts say it’s a ‘made-up term’ https://t.co/MIhthff8EM

— CNN (@CNN) August 16, 2017

Oh. So those violent losers are just part of the mainstream left? Good to know!

It’s a “made-up term” used by people on the right to “suggest there is a similar movement on the left,” Segal said.

But there’s no equivalent with the anti-Semitic and bigoted groups that call themselves “alt-right”, he said.

George Hawley, an assistant professor of political science at the University of Alabama, said the “alt-left” term has been most aggressively pushed by Fox News Channel’s Sean Hannity, but it’s not a label anyone or group has adopted for themselves.

“There is no such movement as the alt-left. Obviously, there are left-wing extremists but there is no congruence between the far-left and the alt-right.”

In other words, the left is allowed to make up terms and corresponding definitions, but the right is not. Hello– these are the same people who coined the term “fake news.” And now that Trump has hijacked the term, it’s the worst term EVERRRR.

Antifa, which is short for anti-fascist, is a controversial opposition group formed by a broad group of people whose political beliefs lean toward the left but do not conform with the Democratic Party platform. Members are known for causing damage to property during protests and some employ radical or militant tactics to get their message across.