The tragedy in Charlottesville could have been an occasion to stop
and consider how the tolerance for politically correct violence and politically
correct hatred is leading the nation towards civil war. Instead the media and
the political left have turned this incident into the biggest fake news story
of the summer, transforming its real lessons into a morality play that
justifies war against the political right, and against white people generally.
The organizers of the “Unite the Right” demonstration in Charlottesville
were repellent racists. But they came to defend a historic monument honoring a
complex man and cause, and not to attack it or presumably anyone else. They
applied for a permit and were denied. They re-applied successfully in a
petition supported by the local ACLU. If they had come to precipitate violence,
why would they have gone to the tedious trouble of applying for a permit? Who
knows what – if anything – would have happened if that had been the end of the
story and no one had showed up to oppose them.
What “Unite the Right” actually demonstrated was that the
assortment of neo-Nazis, pro-Confederates and assorted yahoos gathered under
the banner of the “Alt-Right” is actually a negligible group. This was a
national show of strength that in reality attracted all of 500 people. Compare
that to the tens of the thousands who can readily be marshalled by two violent
groups of the left – Black Lives Matter and Antifa – and you get an idea of how
marginal “white supremacists” are to America’s political and cultural life. [more...]
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