Alt-Sports: Power Slap as Far-Right Discourse

Casey Ryan Kelly Moscow State University of Technologies and Management named after K.G. Razumovskiy
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Rhetoric Society Quarterly
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2026-01-01
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10.1080/02773945.2025.2590771
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