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 supposed
national show of strength actually attracted all of 500 people.
Compare
that to the tens of the thousands who can readily be marshaled 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.
Yet "white
supremacy" and its evils became the centerpiece of all the fake news
reporting on the event, including all the ludicrous attacks on the
president for not condemning enough a bogeyman the whole nation condemns,
and that no one but a fringe element supports.
Talk about virtue
signaling!
Omitted from the
media coverage were the other forces at work in precipitating the battle of
Emancipation Park, specifically Black
Lives Matter and Antifa, two violent leftwing groups with racial agendas
who came to squelch the demonstration in defense of the monument.
Unlike
the Unite the Right demonstrators, the leftist groups did not apply for
permits, which would have been denied since there was another demonstration
scheduled for that park on that day.
But
why should they have applied for a permit, since the mayhem they had
previously caused in Ferguson, Berkeley, Sacramento, Portland and other
cities, was accomplished without permits, while their criminality was
presented by the media as "protests," and their rioting went
completely unpunished.
In other words,
there were two demonstrations in Charlottesville — a legal protest by Unite
the Right and an illegal protest by the vigilantes of Antifa and Black
Lives Matter.
Who started the
fight is really immaterial. Both sides were prepared for violence
because these conflicts are already a
pattern of our deteriorating civic life.
Once the two
sides had gathered in the same place, the violence was totally predictable.
Two parties, two
culpabilities; but except for the initial statement of President Trump,
condemning both sides, only one party
has been held accountable, and that happens to be the one that was in the
park legally.
What
is taking place in the media accounts and political commentaries on this
event is an effort by the left to turn the mayhem in Charlottesville into a
template for their war against a mythical enemy — "white
supremacy" — which is really a war on white people generally.
The
ideology that drives the left and divides our country is "identity
politics" — the idea that the world consists of two groups —
"people of color" who are guiltless and oppressed, and white
people who are guilty and oppressors. This is the real race war.
Its noxious
themes inform the mindless, hysterical hatred of President Trump, and the
equally mindless support of racist mobs like Black Lives Matter and Antifa.
It is a war from
which no good can come. But it won’t be stopped unless enough people have
the courage to stand up and name it for what it is.
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