Posted on 08/14/2018 8:33:54 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Did you hear about the second Unite the Right white supremacist rally in D.C.? You must have heard about it because it was all over the news. In fact, it was so well covered by the media that there were more reporters at the event than white supremacists.
Cant stress enough how underwhelming the #UniteTheRight2 #unitetheright group is. Twenty MAGA dudes walking inside of 100s of cops, 100s of media, and 1000s of counter demonstrators down F street pic.twitter.com/BQZBpn9oME
Scott Heins (@scottheins) August 12, 2018
Notice that according to this guy, who does photos for the Washington Post, there were more reporters than participants at this wildly hyped white supremacist rally. It is also worth noting that he rather casually conflates white supremacists with Trump supporters as if there is no difference between them. Lets break that down because its very significant.
First of all, the white supremacist movement in America is tiny. Even the habitually dishonest Southern Poverty Law Center, which works incessantly to hype up the threat of hate groups, admits that there are only 5,000-8,000 Klansmen in America. It doesnt even take a crack at estimating the number of Nazis, which tells you there are even fewer of them. This is out of a nation of 328 million people. So, if youre talking about the actual percentage of Americans who believe white people are superior to other races based on the color of their skin and feel strongly enough about it to join organizations dedicated to that fact, were talking about an infinitesimal number of people. Just as a point of comparison, the anti-white, anti-Semitic Nation of Islam is estimated to have somewhere between 20,000-50,000 members and its leader Louis Farrakhan has appeared on stage with numerous Democrats in Congress. He even posed for a picture with future President Barack Obama.
If you want to know why only a small number of people attend white supremacist rallies, the obvious answer would seem to be that there arent very many white supremacists. Would even that many show up if the liberal media didnt give them breathless coverage and treat them like political rockstars? On a similar note, would there be violent counter-protesters showing up if the media wasnt going to give blanket coverage to the event?
When I was in college there was a KKK rally nearby. The media ignored it.
Hate groups arent emboldened because of President Trump, they are emboldened because now the media gives them a platform to vocalize their hate.
Molly Prince (@mollyfprince) August 12, 2018
Imagine what would happen if showing up at a crocheting event anywhere in America meant youd be covered by ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, and CNN and you'd have articles written about how important you are, and your leaders would end up as household names? Suddenly, youd have thousands of people showing up at crocheting events. Maybe tens of thousands. Because human beings respond to rewards and in 2018 America, there are few rewards as loved as fame and attention. In fact, if you took the media oxygen away from these groups, its doubtful that they could even maintain their paltry membership numbers.
Just another example: The MSM is the enemy of the people.
They are all confused..
The Nazis were socialists thugs.
‘The National Socialist German Worker’s’ party = Nazi
When they talk about totalitarian and authoritarian regimes.. well.. that is the logical outcome of socialism.
And the thug violent arm of the socialists were the fascists, same as anti-fa, who have no clue what they own name means.
It's mostly just the definitional games the leftwing academics and media are playing. The country is defined as having a white supremacist society. If you are anything but a revolutionary dedicated to its overthrow and especially if you love your country and don't want to see it overthrown, you are therefore a white supremacist yourself. On campus this hogwash is called "reason", "logic", and "science". It is, in fact, special pleading based on an erroneous premise, and the number of people who actually buy into it is roughly the same as the number of people who turned up for the demonstration and - what a surprise! - they're all either media or antifa idiots.
The same definitional games are being played with "white nationalist" and the media are entirely complicit. A white nationalist (or, for that matter a black nationalist) is a person who believes in a separate nation for that applicable race. Simply being a nationalist, i.e. loving one's country, and having a skin color, which we all do, doesn't make one a white or black nationalist. That this new, broader definition has gained such currency is an act of deliberate misrepresentation and crude propaganda.
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