The AP Issues Guidelines on the Use of 'Alt-Right'

Against normalization.

As John Daniszewski, AP’s vice president for standards, puts it, AP has decided to “tackle” the term “alt-right”–alternative name, “alternative right.” But before addressing questions of use, the term must be defined, and Daniszewski’s definition is a beautiful example of dispassionate language that gets its point across.

There’s:

[The alt-right] emphasizes preserving and protecting the white race in the United States in addition to, or over, other traditional conservative positions such as limited government, low taxes and strict law-and-order.

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