Tad Queasy wrote:
"Professional" protestors who are there with the intention of causing chaos don't help, either.
There have been towns in which these groups have petitioned for a permit to march, after much consternation have been granted a permit to march, and rather than deal with the headache of counter protests, the security involved, and general upheaval, local officials organized buses to take people someplace, like to a mall or something, and discouraged people from showing up to yell at the Nazis. No counter protests means these groups do not get the reaction they want, they march down an empty street, and that's pretty much the end of it.
It's leftist hivemind stuff. They'd be burning shit at the G8 instead of throwing piss balloons at reporters. This just fits into a narrative they adopted about hate speech not being free speech, which actually started on college campuses about any speech that hurts someone's feelings should not be allowed. They call everyone Nazis to justify the violence. They call everyone alt-right that doesn't agree with them. It appears to be quite effective.
I've never had any qualms when a conservative would bemoan the left leaning media. As a liberal I have always been able to accept that reality. But it has entered an entire new dimension after Trump. At some point, the people on the far left arguing that Trump will destroy the country are going to do everything in
their power to make sure that happens.
badrogue17 wrote:
I was wondering about that too. STAY OUT OF NEO NAZI BUSINESS!!
It was more the responses from theroot.com and BLM about how white people shouldn't speak until further notice after Charlottesville because a white woman got killed by a white guy and 1000 white nationalists were screaming mostly anti-semitic slogans pertaining to their belief in a "deep state" which is alt-right dogma. And the ranks of those clowns might or might not be overtly racist but probably will find sanctuary with white supremacists when they find none anywhere else.
The media is doing a fine job lumping everyone not on the left into one tidy group of deplorable. My mother said last night she believes Bannon is a Nazi despite admitting to never even googling the guy. I said how could she know that? "Because that's what they say." When I tried to track down the root of that claim it is attributed to a Time article that simply claims Bannon is on the alt-right and then that has been conveniently lumped into white supremacy, because why not? Time is certainly not the magazine I grew up reading occasionally in the High School library. To say they are left leaning would be a massive understatement. But ultimately it doesn't matter which way they lean as long as they are able to be honest and accurate.
There is most certainly fake news. But for more than a decade now it is the lack honesty and quality in 'legitimate' journalism that I fear the most.
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