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What The Right-Wing Media Got Wrong About Charlottesville

They’re playing a dangerous blame game.

This past weekend, a “Unite the Right” rally led by white supremacists sparked deadly violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.

But in the aftermath of the protest, many conservative or right-leaning outlets and pundits have tiptoed around ― or outright denied ― the role of white supremacy at the rally, which was attended by neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klan members, “white nationalist” organizations and members of the so-called “alt-right.”

We want to clear up some of their versions of the events in Charlottesville.

White supremacists are to blame for white supremacy ― not “identity politics.”

White supremacist groups ― whose various ideologies assert that whites should have dominance over people of other races, that races should be physically separated and that countries or regions should be defined by a white racial identity, among other nakedly racist ideas ― came to Charlottesville ready for a fight.

They openly carried long guns, dressed in militia uniforms, chanted the Nazi phrase “Blood and soil!” and admitted to surrounding counterprotesters at a Thomas Jefferson statue, lit torches in hand.



“Unite the Right” protestors gather in Charlottesville carrying flags emblazoned with swastikas.

Them's Nazis, KKK and free range RW jack-wagons above, not liberals. No amount of childish spin from you can change who they are, what they are.


They should be held accountable for their beliefs and the violence committed in the movement’s name ― but in the days following the mayhem, much of conservative media has engaged in a dangerous blame game.

The conservative Wall Street Journal editorial board wrote Sunday that “the larger poison driving events like those in Virginia” is identity politics ― a phrase that refers to groups of people forming political opinions based on their shared racial or social background. The term is usually used to criticize groups like Black Lives Matter as being divisive or exclusionary in their pursuit of equality.

The Wall Street Journal went on to suggest that racial inequalities haven’t been a problem in the U.S. since the civil rights movement ― until now. Spin


“‘Diversity’ is now the all-purpose justification for these divisions, and the irony is that America is more diverse and tolerant than ever,” the editorial board wrote, arguing that the civil rights movement was able to “overcome” white supremacy in the 1960s. Load of ahistorical crap.

In a New York Times op-ed, right-wing commentator Erick Erickson described the “social justice warrior alt-left and the white supremacist alt-right as two sides of the same coin.” Spin

One of these groups believes some people should be denied fundamental rights based on the color of their skin, and one does not, so there’s not really an equivalence there.

White supremacists are not acting out for the media or on behalf of liberal conspirators.

There’s no evidence that white supremacists ― whose ideology has had a foothold in the U.S. since the nation’s founding ― are a product of the media covering their actions in places like Berkeley, Portland, New Orleans and Gettysburg over the past year.

Rather, analysts and members of the movement say, white supremacists have been so bold lately in part because they feel empowered by President Donald Trump and his reluctance to single them out for condemnation.

“No condemnation at all,” said a post on the prominent white nationalist site Daily Stormer, describing Trump’s initial, tepid remarks on the protest. “Really, really good. God bless him.”

That would be the Nazi 'Daily Stormer' on which a shitheel praised Trump for being an equivocating moral imbecile

But Fox News host Greg Gutfeld, in his Monday night monologue on “The Five,” argued that those white supremacists would go away if the press only stopped covering them ― calling the events “a death sport fought in the coliseum of modern media.” Horseshit


These Nazis are repugnant slugs who need shunning, as well as their violent counterparts,” Gutfeld said, as footage of violence at the rally played on the screen. “But they won’t be, as long as the media races to capture the action, then virtue-signals themselves to death afterwards.”

Fringe right-wing personalities ― whose ideas almost always manage to gain some traction on social media ― took the blame a step further.

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, founder of the website Infowars, ran with claims that the whole protest was a scheme by the left to make the right look bad.

Sure, Soros bought the Nazi paraphernalia and torches for the assholes, as IF the right needs help to 'look bad, racist and stupid.

“EXCLUSIVE: Virginia Riots Staged To Bring In Martial Law, Ban Conservative Gatherings,” read the headline on a video Jones published Saturday. Genius

Mike Cernovich, the so-called “meme mastermind of the alt-right,” used Charlottesville to re-up the conspiracy theory that philanthropist George Soros is an all-powerful puppet master controlling U.S. progressives.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/right-wi...247276c9cf

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