unz | This
past Saturday night, August 12, the media was filled to overflowing
with nothing but lurid and hysterical accounts of the “violence” and the
“massacre” by so-called “white nationalists” (alternately identified as
“white supremacists” or “white racists”) inflicted on poor, innocent
“counter demonstrators” in Charlottesville who were “protesting hate and
bigotry.” That’s the narrative that showed up, including wall-to-wall
coverage on Fox, overpowering everything else, and spewed forth as if
handed down from Mount Olympus by assorted “wise” Republican senators,
including most notably Marco Rubio, Orrin Hatch, and John McCain, whose
biggest complaint was that Donald Trump somehow did not specify that the violence was exclusively caused by something that is termed the “Alt-right.”
Nary
a word about the ultimate and real responsibility of the American Left
for a continuing history of violence, nary a word about the
responsibility of the so-called “resist Trump” organizations and their
actions, nary a word about the uncontrolled rampaging of the Black Lives
Matter movement (e.g., Ferguson, Baltimore, etc.), nary a word about
the stepped up and planned confrontations by the “antifa” (self-titled
“antifascists”) militants. That is, not one word about the history of
virulent street action, fire bombing, trashing of private property, and,
yes, attempts to kill anyone (e.g., Representative Steve
Scalise) to the perceived right of, say, John McCain, anyone who might
in any way say a good word about Donald Trump, or defend older American
traditions and beliefs.
Continually, the networks portray what happened Saturday as simply the manifestation of extremism and bigotry from the Right.
And practically the only voice that got even remotely close to a
rational perspective came from, quite ironically, a black professor,
Carol Swain at Vanderbilt University, who distinguished between the very
legitimate desires, aspirations and fears of America’s under-attack
white majority and the misapprehension that somehow those desires equal inevitably
“white racism” or “white supremacy.” As Swain indicated, what has
happened during the past few decades is a palpable marginalization of
millions of hard working Americans, mostly white and mostly Christian,
who have been sidelined and left behind by the advancing progressivist
revolution (these last words are mine). They are not naturally “racists”
or even “white supremacists,” but rather they seek to guarantee their own survival, and the survival of their families, their communities, and
their culture. They have seen the standards, beliefs, traditions,
morality and customs that they inherited and have cherished—they have
seen them attacked, ridiculed, and, in many cases, banned, even
criminalized.
The
so-called “Alt-right” march and their demonstration in Charlottesville,
then, must be seen as something of a predictable boiling over of that
legitimate and simmering sentiment. Protesting the attempt to take down
the historic Robert E. Lee statue was not, in this sense, the underlying
reason for the Alt-right protest. Rather, it served as a much broader,
if much angrier and extreme, reminder of what is and has been occurring
in our society, a symbol of the continuing destruction of this nation
and its history by those who zealously possess and attempt to impose a
world view, a template, which is the antithesis of those beliefs and
that faith that millions of us have inherited and which we hold dear and
believe.
The
attacks by nearly the entirety of the media—including notably Fox—on
the “Alt-right” demonstrators as “white racists” and “white
supremacists,” then, is not only misguided scattershot, but it partakes
in the dominant and ideologically leftist Deep State establishment
narrative which posits as absolute truth that “hate,” “bigotry,”
“racism,” ad nauseum, only come from what
they identity as the “far” or “extreme” right, or more recently,
“Alt-right.” And those terms are all-inclusive for anyone who dissents
even in the slightest from the ongoing progressivist Revolution.
Thus, when the president condemned violence from “both sides,”
it was as if Mount Vesuvius had erupted and had poured down its ash and
lava all over Pompei! The Mainstream Media went literally berserk in
outrage and demanded that he specify by name the “right” and
“rightist violence.” And in jumped with both feet the obsequiously
sickening Marco Rubio and Karl Rove, obedient to the standard Deep State
mindset, urging the president to condemn “white nationalism” and “white
supremacy.”
And
so it went throughout that afternoon and evening…until I finally
couldn’t take it any longer, and switched over to watch John Wayne in
John Ford’s 1950 film masterpiece, “Rio Grande.” (It is always a
gracious reward at the end to hear the Yankee band strike up “Dixie” as
the Union troops pass in review!)
Certainly, the Alt-right demonstrators in Charlottesville included some
extreme elements. Certainly, some would advocate a form of “supremacy,”
or rather a return to a time when white people had more authority in
this nation.
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