Author sues NY Times after it calls him a 'white nationalist' (Peter Brimelow)

The Hill ^ | 01 11 2020 | Tal Axelrod

[yesthatjallen]

Anti-immigrant author and activist Peter Brimelow is suing The New York Times for $5 million for dubbing him an “open white nationalist” in an article last year.

Brimelow, who runs a website that has published pieces from white supremacists, is suing The Times over a January 15, 2019 article that detailed the chronology of racist comments from Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa). The story briefly mentioned Brimelow and noted that he and the lawmaker had appeared on a panel together at the 2012 Conservative Political Action Conference.

Brimelow accused The Times of performing a “stealth edit” to the initial version of the story, changing its description of him from an “open white nationalist” to a “white nationalist.” He maintains he is a “civic nationalist.”

Brimelow says in the suit he has been “injured in his good name, fame, credit, profession, and reputation as a man, and in his various public and private positions, callings, and lines of endeavor, and has been held up to public ridicule before his acquaintances and the public, and to suffer the loss of prestige and standing in his community and elsewhere.”

The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York., says The Times never printed a correction or clarification in the online or print version of the paper and declined to publish his letters disputing the description.

SNIP

[tbw2]

Valid claim. The label “N-zi” is considered justification for violence by the left. It is akin to smearing someone a blasphemer in the Islamic world knowing full well it will incite a violent mob to attack them and burn down their home - even when it is someone demanding back pay or the return of a kidnapped daughter.

[tbw2]

Liberals consider the sin of Nazism being nationalism - when it was really totalitarian socialism.

Liberalism now mirrors communism and Islam - the lie that if everyone converted to their ideology and obeyed its mandates, we’d have peace on Earth.

[newfreep]

But wouldn't you like to be a Pepper, too?