I want to know what being alt-right means for me. I have not been able to get an entirely straight or consistent answer out of the political people I know, but I hear from a reliable source that this board/site in general leans alt-right. I believe that politics boils down to what it actually means for me in my daily life. I have been called/told by people on this site and on 4chan–which I was a regular of about a decade ago if that helps–that I am a 'normie.' I hear there's a racial component to being alt-right and I'm not sure how I feel about that, but I don't like to generalize about things before I actually see what they're about for myself. So I want to hear from those of you who actually ID as alt-right as to how an alt-right world would impact me in my daily life.
I am a white American male of Northern European descent, Scots-Norwegian on my mom's side, English on my dad's. I am in my mid 20s in a large city on the West Coast. I am college-educated; it was paid for me so I lack student debt. I am employed by a mid-size employer in a primarily biology-oriented STEM field–mostly medical but some biotech. Currently I am deciding between going into neurological research or going into genetics, to be applied to either AI or gene editing/therapy, respectively. Both seem timed right so either way I believe I am 'set,' once I have the finances to pay my way through grad school, probably starting some time next year.
I have been married for two years. My wife was born and raised in England but both sides of her family are Italian. She moved here on a K-1 fiance visa. She is relatively apolitical although her family has struggled since Brexit; this is the first I've seen her worry about it. She is self-employed as a photographer and together we are able to afford a modest but appropriate apartment in the satellite city in which I grew up, which is relatively affluent. Neither of us are particularly religious but I have no problem with religious freedom or expression, I simply don't believe in its truth value (I've been known to hew to Taoist/Vedantist thought but never in an actively practicing sense). We both own cars; mine was a graduation gift but since it is a rather large truck, it gets poor gas mileage and I am thinking of switching to public transportation.
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