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"Cry Wolf News": Fearmonger Media Claims 50% of Americans Will Goose step for Trump's America

Nov 26, 2016 11:47

Alt-Right is a Gigantic White Safe Space for Crying White Babies. Fear Machine to Push GOP into the White Embrace of Their New White Knights.

Ben Shapiro on how the group will take advantage of its newfound prominence.
Ben Shapiro is a conservative columnist, former Breitbart editor-at-large, and Never Trump-er who’s now facing anti-Semitic threats ( Read more... )

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mimblexwimble November 26 2016, 07:05:58 UTC

That final paragraph, though. Trump has succeeded in one thing: uniting much of the white left and the white right.

meadowphoenix November 26 2016, 07:26:28 UTC

mte! It would only be difficult because people didn't want to confront racism the first time.

ioplokon November 26 2016, 18:28:20 UTC

I guess I don't really make a meaningful distinction between someone being personally anti-Semitic and being willing to play to people's anti-Semitism for power? Not only are both terrible, but it seems like they both have the same solution: consistent and unequivocal condemnation of both kinds of people.

(I mean, I get that this is a good rhetorical move for him because he gets to be the reasonable moderate, but it's not one I can get behind)

moonshaz November 26 2016, 22:22:17 UTC

I agree SO much.

Anyone who is willing to use such vile sentiments for their own ends either agrees with them or is terrifyingly amoral and cynical. If either of those things is worse than the other, I sure as hell can't see it.

blackestforest November 27 2016, 00:03:26 UTC

The one just using anti-semitism is amoral and cynical, the ideologically anti-semite is deluded. I don't know which is worse.

shahar November 27 2016, 15:08:03 UTC

Yes! I used to refer to this phenomenon as active vs passive racism. A lot of white people think that racists are the former and not the latter.

einodia November 26 2016, 19:17:40 UTC

That last paragraph is sound advice, but will only work if people actually stick to harsh criticism of those policies and their underlying racist values. Instead, we keep getting 'oh well we need to come together' and 'America has spoken ' and 'let's all try to get along' which only furthers complaceny on rascist rhetoric. It's how we got to this election result in the first place.