Posted on 08/14/2017 12:02:23 AM PDT by Kaslin
I wish I could say that it’s a shock that someone died in Charlottesville, but I’ve been predicting just this sort of thing in radio appearances for months. The liberal media is dying to blame it all on Donald Trump, but it should look in the mirror.
To begin with, the liberal media is almost entirely responsible for growing the Alt-Right merger of hate groups and internet trolls. Most people are well aware of the stifling political correctness that reached an apex under Barack Obama. People are sick and tired of being attacked and scolded by the humorless left-wing thought police every time they stray from the latest liberal doctrine. That created a large group of people who enjoyed tweaking social justice warriors and some of them realized the easiest way to do that was with racial slurs. Every time some doofus leaves a noose on a college campus or says the N-word, it’s treated like a national crisis. If you’re an anonymous troll who enjoys getting people to react to everything you say, that’s a FEATURE, not a bug. All you have to do is say something racially offensive and all these people who studiously try to ignore you will go out of their minds.
That racial element gave the Nazis, white supremacists and KKK mouth-breathers a way to connect with the more socially adept trolls making the Pepe the Frog memes. Of course, the media liberals fueled them as well with their hypocrisy. They painted EVERY white supporter of Donald Trump or the Republican Party as a racist even as they ignored and defended the vicious anti-white rhetoric that has become commonplace on the Left. Just to give you a quick example of that, there was a hashtag that trended on Twitter after the attack called #ThisIsNotUS. It started out as a way for white liberals to virtue signal, but it quickly turned into an all too typical attack on white people, America and Trump voters. Here are some of the most popular comments from the hashtag…
#ThisIsNotUs Then who is it? 63% of white men & 53% of white women voted for KKK-endorsed Trump. The majority of EVERY OTHER ETHNICITY didn’t
If you are white and you are trying to say #ThisIsNotUs you are part of the problem.
If you're earnestly tweeting #ThisIsNotUS, know that the you might as well have been one of the white supremacists walking w/ tiki torches.
Every white person that tweets #ThisIsNotUs is being complicit in not addressing the rampant racism and bigotry that in their community
#ThisIsNotUS? Easy to say so. Unfortunately you can't have the Black, Brown, Asian, Jewish, Muslim or LGTBQ "experience" to know #THISISYOU
Gaga, prime example of a white woman using tag #ThisIsNotUs like this country wasn’t built on slavery & racism. THIS HAS ALWAYS BEEN AmeriKa
#ThisIsNotUs is how white people try to absolve themselves from their complicity in white supremacy; it v much is you, your inaction fuels it
The biggest talking point white supremacists have are comments like these. Would that be true if the mainstream media actually treated these comments with the same sort of contempt it has for the Alt-Right?
Nope.
Yet these sort of comments are MAINSTREAM on the Left. Let me repeat that. They are MAINSTREAM on the Left.
On the other hand, white supremacists are nothing on the Right. David Duke is a joke. Richard Spencer? Let me tell you a little story about Richard Spencer. I was walking around CPAC and noticed an enormous gaggle of media surrounding someone I didn’t recognize, who didn’t seem to be drawing a crowd of regular attendees. As it turns out, the massive group of media people weren’t following a big name. They were following Richard Spencer, who was later kicked out of the conference, presumably because the organizers never wanted him there in the first place.
Yet Richard Spencer, like David Duke before him, is treated like some kind of rock star by the media liberals even though he’s a nobody in the conservative movement. Why? Because they don’t care about conservative opinion. They don’t care about conservative views. They care about creating propaganda that paints the Right as a bunch of hood-wearing, Nazi-saluting scumbags. So, they treat Richard Spencer like a rock star.
This creates a sort of Kim Kardashian effect. Ninety five percent of any influence Spencer has comes from the fact that anything he does is a big deal to the media. Why were Spencer and Duke able to gather even 500 Tiki torch-waving idiots in Charlottesville? Because the media would cover everything they did with bated breath. It gave them a chance to feel important, to feel like they were making an impact. In fact, white supremacists have started to believe its own BS because they keep hearing it from the media. After fighting with Richard Spencer on Twitter, I still remember one of his fans claiming that white supremacists were an essential part of Trump getting elected. My response was….
“Yeah, you guys made a bunch of Holocaust memes & called people cucks and then you're all....’I'm helping.’”
The hardcore racists out there are pariahs everywhere except in the mainstream media, where they’re treated as incredibly important.
On the other hand, the same mainstream media that has elevated the Alt-Right has been silent as violence has increasingly become a mainstay at liberal protests, including the counter-protest of this event. A few shops getting looted or people getting hurt doesn’t stop the media from describing a liberal event as a peaceful protest. Even the counter-protests in Charlottesville were widely described as “peaceful.” Yet, protesters chanted “From the Midwest to the South, punch a Nazi in the mouth,” a female reporter was punched by one of those counter-protesters, the organizer of the rally was hit, and other people were attacked. That’s not peaceful. That’s something LIBERAL POLITICIANS should be asked to condemn.
In other words, Nazi and KKK members are HORRIBLE. The violent liberal counter-protesters are ALSO horrible. James Alex Fields, Jr? Who appears to have marched at the rally before plowing into a crowd? I condemn what he did. I also condemn the Bernie supporter who shot up a congressional Republican softball game. Additionally, I will condemn the next person on the Left or the Right who kills someone over politics, which seems inevitable when you have opposing sides carrying shields and weapons to political rallies. Those condemnations don’t make a damn bit of difference as long as the liberal media keeps elevating white supremacists and excusing the violence of the Alt-Left. I’m genuinely sorry people are dying at political rallies, but it would be surprising if the death at Charlottesville were the last one. Their blood will be on the hands of the liberal media.
I never heard of Richard Spencer till this morning
Is he some sort of Pete Peters/William Pierce 2017?
Or is that just media labeling him?
Neither have I, but than I have never heard of Pete Peters or William Pierce either.
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Pretty good article but I’m surprised Antifa was not
specifically mentioned, nor was Black Lives Matter.
Yes, the neo-nazis, KKK, and white supremacists are
evil, just about as evil as it gets. But, the
MSM would have the world believe that the so-called
“right wing” hate groups attacked peaceful local,
protesters. In fact, Antifa and BLM were there,
organized, and spoiling for a confrontation. For
those who may not know, Antifa is the far left goon
squad which disrupted those who were legally
protesting the anti conservative speech policies
of UC Berkeley. They also made their nasty mark
in Portland, OR. Of course we can’t expect the
lefty MSM to assign any blame to the hate groups
on the political left.
This is the same media who, when a muslim drives a car into a crowd and kills off a lot of people, keeps saying islam has nothing to do with it and that we must not jump to conclusions.
I do not like those KKK nazi guys but I have some advice: convert to islam and the MSN/politicians will cover for you.
It is a sequence of events but Richard Spencer is a known name today because the Trump administration failed to prosecute the known violent shills in Chicago last year that were paid by the DNC. When corruption is tolerated you get more. When Trump supporters are beaten and bloodied in the street for supporting Trump and they go unpunished and when the few who are prosecuted are hidden away and ignored by the BSM then you not only get more violence but more people fighting back.
And when calling people racist for fighting back ain’t helping. “If this be racism make the most of it!.”
Antifa is the left’s Victory Lap. To show the world Trump may be president but the lefties are still in power. To intimidate with violence anyone who has the audacity to point out they aren’t in power. The fact they continue to escalate their violence unmolested proves they are, in fact, still in power.
The fact is, we have a lot of things that need to be done. Fact is, 0bamacare is just a part of it. Ending corruption is a part. Tax reform is a part. Making the streets safe for Trump supporters is also a part. We have a lot that needs doing and if we can be deterred because we are called names we don’t deserve to win. “If this be racism make the most of it.”
That is an excellent point, and needs to be repeated over and over.
We did not get into the situation where the left has so much power and our freedom is in existential crisis overnight. And we will not get out of it overnight. We elected Trump to be our torchbearer, but he is only one man and can only do so much. It is going to take a lot of hard work to get us out of this mess.
Thank you. I have been typing my fingers off for two days. It is nice to see I am reaching someone.
I have no idea what he meant.
Police let antifa gather without a permit, knowing they planned violence.
Video of the driver in his car show him going at a reasonable speed down a street with a modest crowd, his car being struck by an antifa member with a bat or board. Then the crowd converges around him while more liberal bullies pour in from surrounding streets. A violent mob is surrounding his car. That is how he could hit 20 with his vehicle trying to pull out - because far more than that surrounded him.
https://mobile.twitter.com/Debradelai/status/896623545127776256
And police not only didn’t protect the legitimate protestors, they left them unprotected even as Antifa followed and harassed people leaving the event.
The KKK are scum, racial collectivists. So are the authoritarian liberals embodied in Antifa. It is communists versus nazis again, both of whom are on the left side of the political spectrum.
It is the antifa fascists who started this violence as they did at Evergreen State, Middlebury, Trump’s canceled Chicago rally, Berkley ... it is the liberal bullies who are using violence to shut down speech they don’t like, again and again.
Close enough Or is that just media labeling him?
It's not just Media labeling him. Just look into some of his quotes where he disrespects the Declaration of Independence, and things like [emphasis added]:
“Racist isn’t a descriptive word. It’s a pejorative word. It is the equivalent of saying, ‘I don’t like you.’ ‘Racist’ is just a slur word. I think race is real, and I think race is important. And those two principles do not mean I want to harm someone or hate someone. But the notion that these people can be equal is not a scientific way of looking at it.” — quoted in the Flathead Beacon, November 2014The above quote—hateful or not—embraces overtly supremacist views.
I, for one, as a Trump supporter, want nothing to do with Richard Spencer or his ilk. Sometimes a duck is a duck...
ok. I’m trying to figure out if the current administration can prosecute what happened last year in Chicago.
If they didn’t its the deeeeeeep swamp. the DOinJ at work.
I’ll know the media is truly serious about Charlottesville, or whatever, when they start listed it in the “city weather” reports like CBS has included “Newtown:, like I care what the weather is in Newtown.
I don’t see why Sessions couldn’t.
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