Democrats and the press hope they can spin the weekend’s violence in Charlottesville into a narrative about “dangerous right-wingers.” Apparently the rank-and-file of the far left didn’t get the memo.
The Daily Caller reports on a number of extreme left-wing activist groups, who’ve already shown their true colors on college campuses, calling on their fellow travelers to respond answer Saturday’s chaos by intensifying their campaign of intimidation:
“Charlottesville is just the beginning. If the alt-right can get away with murder there, none of us will be safe. We have to stand up to white supremacists, we have to shut down and chase out these bigots every time they try to organize, or else they will kill more people,” reads one poster created by anarchist group CrimethInc, a self-described “international network of aspiring revolutionaries.”
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“The police will not protect us. They murder over a thousand people every year in this country, and infiltrate and attack our demonstrations when we stand up against alt-right terror. We have to organize to defend ourselves.”
Another anarchist group, the Revolutionary Abolition Movement, issued a statement after Charlottesville praising the far-left fighters who, along with violent white nationalists, turned Charlottesville into a literal political battlefield.
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“Our fighters showed daring and a willingness to risk their own safety for the sake of others, and we hold them in the highest regard. Due to their fortitude and unwavering determination, the anti-fascists held their ground and succeeded in stopping the rally. Though we will never know exactly how many lives were saved by their actions, it is clear that without resistance to their fascist terror many more would have been harmed,” reads the statement.
Though utterly deranged, these people serve as a perfect reminder of the real reasons why hate of any kind festers and grows in this country: because while the Right broadly condemns right-wing violence (however broadly we’re defining “right-wing”), the Left does not return the favor, instead pretending right-wing violence is an epidemic and left-wing violence is either non-existent, confined to isolated incidents reflecting on no broader groups or trends, or for some, even justifiable.
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Because while both sides unequivocally condemn neo-Nazis, the Ku Klux Klan, and other practicioners of white nationalism/supremacism, only one side condemns Antifa and Black Lives Matter, to say nothing of other left-endorsed hate groups such as La Raza and the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
Indeed, nobody has to look any further than the fact that the so-called Women’s March openly celebrated a cop-killer…and it barely made any headlines outside of the conservative blogosphere, let alone the media firestorm generated by racist lunatics who haven’t been embraced by anyone on the Right.
Make no mistake: liberals are not hyping Charlottesville because any of them sincerely fear a resurgence of racism. They’re doing it to slander and intimidate millions of non-racists by phony association, and if they succeed the end result will be unfathomable harm to the freedom, safety, health, and livelihood of every American: white and black, male and female, religious and secular, straight and gay.
Now is not the time for conservatives to indulge fictions that the civil rights battle hasn’t been won yet, or to nitpick the words Donald Trump used to condemn bigots. Now is the time to fight back against the people truly threatening the hard-won rights of the American people.
