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It is also an implicit instance of the use of whataboutism, which is a technique to deflect criticism against your own flaws by bringing up your opponents' flaws and/or negatives in response (whether related, whether or not logically, or not). without defending yourself or making an argument in favor of your own flaws or against the argument made against you. There isn't a good one, and so instead of trying to engage in it, you engage in both false equivalence, a logical fallacy, and whataboutism in order to perpetrate that outrageous false equivalence.

The term "alt-left" exists only as an epithet on the right leaning media and has been used only since 2016 directed at Warren and Sanders or to accuse certain liberals like Kathy Griffin of inciting violence. It was never a self-descriptor used proudly by the subjects. Alt-right, on the other hand, is used openly and proudly by its own subjects as a self-descriptor and is used by opponents to describe those subjects as well. It actually started as a self-descriptor almost a decade ago in 2008, when a number of op-eds published by conservatives included the term. And this doesn't even touch upon what groups are considered alternative right, which was simply created to normalize white supremacy by giving it a softer name.