Guys..
I hear lots of hand-wringing and finger pointing. Our president is ham-handed and horrible. Bad things happened. The alt-right is a problem.
Okay, you've started off strong...
But the left and the media are the bigger threat!!!!!!
And you tripped and fell in the mud. How on earth are "the left and the media the bigger threat"? We had neo-Nazis marching through Charlottesville attacking, injuring and killing people. The ****ing neo-Nazis literally murdered someone and you're engaging in drole whataboutery. There is no equivalence to be found here, try as you might. It is the M.O. of white supremacists to subjugate and enslave or destroy everyone who doesn't look or think like them. That is literally their only purpose. And they've now got supporters in the White House. The ****ing
White House. The very tip-top of the American Government. Trump's administration has even gone so far as to end funding for an organisation that rehabilitates former neo-Nazis back into society. Do you honestly think Antifa are a threat compared to this? This is collusion; it's planned!
When people fight back against an ideology which calls
loudly and clearly for their destruction you get all relativist and say 'they were bad too'. **** this relativism shtick. Punching Nazis is as American as the NBA. Antifa is short for anti-fascist which is what Americans were during World War 2.
And finally: legal speech =/= moral speech.
The left and the media are HUGE, and they are ignoring the 1st amendment. Long after this weekend is forgotten, the 1st amendment is what will keep us safe. Keep the 1st amendment front and center, and notice how infrequently it comes up as Charlottesville is discussed.
And this right here is why America still has such a horrendous problem with racism 50 years after the Civil Rights Movement. You normalise it, you give it voice in mainstream society and you treat it as legitimate. You allow its proponents access to the corridors of power all the way up to the White House. It's the same reason why other anti-intellectual beliefs like geocentricism and Flat-Earth proponents are experiencing a resurgence. You hold opposing positions as having the same value regardless of their actual veracity and truth-value.