“we know that this is about something entirely different than how the lying media is portraying it”
Their goal is to affirm the Antifa/BLM assertion that words, certain words, ARE violence and as such are not protected by the First Amendment AND may be responded to with violence, up to and including beatings, blindings, and killings, all of which fall under the heading of “self-defense”.
And, make no mistake, they have already proclaimed that words as non-controversial as “men and women are different” constitute violence. Richard Spencer’s ideas, and the ideas of his associates, are out of the mainstream but are, without a doubt, political speech as it has always been understood.
If you accept (and it appears that virtually all elected politicians do accept) the proposition that political speech of this nature, even when holding an order from a Federal judge to permit the speech at a given time and place, may be shut down by a violent Leftist mob, then have no doubt that YOU ARE NEXT.
Remember “Bushitler”? Remember the evil Nazi McCain? or Romney? Or Reagan, the next Hitler? I sure do.
If Spencer and his crew are too far Right for your tastes, I get it. But what I don’t get is people here who think that their expression of political ideas in public is, or should be, unprotected by our Constitution and by the police and soldiers who are sworn to uphold it.
Mentally, the hard Left is halfway to Cambodia, 1975 already. They want you dead. Once you accept their proposition that words are violence, and that they get to define which words those are AND who may or may not say them, you have put your own head on the block.
Reacting to what the hateful left is doing in the media field of operations runs the danger of playing the victim. There are no victims here - there are only opposing forces. To claim otherwise would implicitly assert a need for fairness.
He who claims fairness has already lost. Rather, the defenders of freedom must simply utilize the same techniques of ring fencing certain Marxist terms, symbols & expressions.
At the tactical weapon level, ideas & language are expressed as "memes". The kids @ T_D intrinsically understand this current battle for freedom is properly regarded as 'meme warfare'.
We should all note that evil always loses. The advocates of destruction never anticipate advancement, because their core beliefs are opposed to egalitarian principles of merit & achievement.
Rather, the divider's prime goal is group organization, with leaders positioned to garner the spoils of control & power. They may seem like a powerful enemy, but the chief weakness always leads to their (eventual) defeat.
Trump won based on the principles of the individual. He/we are under attack because the philosophy of knowledge and advancement is diametrically opposite to what hateful dividers wish to achieve.