Tuesday, November 20, 2018

There Is No 'Surge' in White Supremacy

In an attempt to boost his inaccurate claim that white supremacy is surging, French cited a sketchy study while overlooking exculpatory data in the very same report, and he mentioned random racial crimes that are vile but no indicator of a coordinated white supremacist movement.

"Trump's words have emboldened white supremacists," French outlandishly declared, again without evidence.

In an effort to prove his case, French conflated a rise in white supremacy with a speculative rise in hate crimes.

Non church-going Trump voters are closet racists, French concluded, because not enough of them have "Warm feelings" for blacks, according to one survey: "The white-supremacist surge is a symptom of a greater disease, and it's a disease with no easy cure."

French identified a litany of woes suffered by white, working-class Americans who he claims are drawn to Trump and therefore vulnerable to the alleged white supremacy upswing, but in addition to offering no evidence of their supposed racial animus, French offered no solutions to their legitimate political concerns.

If influencers like French had their way, Republicans would spend all their time calling out the outliers on this side, rather than developing solutions to help disaffected white and other working class Americans-not to mention condemning the more dangerous and legitimate surge in left-wing fueled violence.

French lends a conservative imprimatur to the false leftist narrative that Trump is a racist, that the president promotes white supremacy, and that his supporters are ready to wield Tiki torches to burn down the country.

https://amgreatness.com/2018/11/19/there-is-no-surge-in-white-supremacy/

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