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| | [[File:Charlottesville Ukraine.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Charlottesville protesters received training from the Ukrainian neo-Nazis [[Azov Battalion]].<ref>https://worldbeyondwar.org/letter-charlottesville-ukraine/</ref><ref>Shuster, Simon; Perrigo, Billy (January 7, 2021). [https://time.com/5926750/azov-far-right-movement-facebook/ Like, Share, Recruit: How a White-Supremacist Militia Uses Facebook to Radicalize and Train New Members]. ''TIME Magazine''. Retrieved May 31, 2023.</ref>]] | | [[File:Charlottesville Ukraine.jpg|right|350px|thumb|Charlottesville protesters received training from the Ukrainian neo-Nazis [[Azov Battalion]].<ref>https://worldbeyondwar.org/letter-charlottesville-ukraine/</ref><ref>Shuster, Simon; Perrigo, Billy (January 7, 2021). [https://time.com/5926750/azov-far-right-movement-facebook/ Like, Share, Recruit: How a White-Supremacist Militia Uses Facebook to Radicalize and Train New Members]. ''TIME Magazine''. Retrieved May 31, 2023.</ref>]] |
| − | The '''alt-right''' ("alternative right") is an anarchic banditti of various atheistic, pagan, white supremacist, and socialistic circles. Virulent violence glorified among its mobs culminated in the 2017 "Unite The Right" rally in [[Charlottesville]], [[Virginia]], hijacking peaceful protests against the removal of the [[Robert E. Lee]] statue. | + | The '''alt-right''' ("alternative right") is an anarchic banditti of various atheistic, pagan, white supremacist, and socialistic circles. Virulent violence glorified among its mobs culminated in the 2017 "Unite The Right" rally in [[Charlottesville]], [[Virginia]], hijacking peaceful protests against the removal of the [[Robert E. Lee]] statue. Conservatives have widely denounced the alt-right as "garden variety, left-wing fascists"<ref>Weigel, Daniel; Wagner, John (February 23, 2017). [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/02/23/cpac-organizer-denounces-alt-right-as-left-wing-fascist-group/ Alt-right leader expelled from CPAC after organizer denounces ‘fascist group’]. ''The Washington Post''. Retrieved May 31, 2023.</ref><ref>O'Neil, Tyler (February 23, 2017). [https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/tyler-o-neil/2017/02/23/dan-schneider-the-alt-right-are-nothing-but-garden-variety-left-wing-fascists-n50471 Dan Schneider: The Alt-Right Are 'Nothing But Garden Variety, Left-Wing Fascists']. ''PJ Media''. Retrieved May 31, 2023.</ref> |
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| | At the Charlottesville protests, many racial hate groups were present, such as the [[Ku Klux Klan]] and Neo-Nazis which President Trump unequivocally condemned.<ref>https://www.prageru.com/video/what-happened-in-charlottesville</ref> The event resulted in much violence between protestors, counter-protestors, and police, culminating in self-identified white supremacist James Alex Fields, Jr., intentionally ramming his car into a crowd of people, killing Heather Heyer and injuring 35 other people.<ref>https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=%2Fg%2F11cjpdc0b5</ref> | | At the Charlottesville protests, many racial hate groups were present, such as the [[Ku Klux Klan]] and Neo-Nazis which President Trump unequivocally condemned.<ref>https://www.prageru.com/video/what-happened-in-charlottesville</ref> The event resulted in much violence between protestors, counter-protestors, and police, culminating in self-identified white supremacist James Alex Fields, Jr., intentionally ramming his car into a crowd of people, killing Heather Heyer and injuring 35 other people.<ref>https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=%2Fg%2F11cjpdc0b5</ref> |