New York Times legal reporter Alan Feuer made the front page on Thanksgiving Day with his “news analysis” equating neo-Nazi marchers with mainstream Republican border control measures, school board protesters, even Colin Kaepernick critics.
The headline was “Charlottesville’s Extremist Theories Echo in the Mainstream Right.”
The jury verdict on Tuesday holding a dozen white supremacists liable for the violence at the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Va., was a victory for those who have long inveighed against far-right extremists and a rare example of hate group leaders being held responsible not only for the language….
But even though the planners of the rally lost their civil trial and now confront the prospect of $25 million in damages, Their legacy continues to live on.
Four years after the event, the same ideas that made “Unite the Right” a lightning rod for hate groups are increasingly being echoed, However, in modulated tonesTo be referred to by well-known figures from conservative media and politics. Chief among them is the great replacement theory, which holds that Democrats and others on the left are trying to supplant white Americans with immigrants and others for their own political gain.
That’s a hostile way to describe what for most conservatives is the justified concern that Democrats want to import immigrants into America who would then dutifully pull the lever for the party who fought to get them into the country.
….The once perverse belief that whites are in danger in America is being embraced by the conservative majority.
Feuer rounded up anecdotes from the left’s Public Enemy No. 1, Fox News host Tucker Carlson, conflating concerns over immigration with conspiratorial “replacement theory.”
In the spring, a Pennsylvania Republican, Representative Scott Perry, made reference to replacement theory at an immigration hearing on the floor of the House. In September, Elise Stefanik of New York, the House Republican conference chair, released a campaign ad based on a version of the theory….
According to Washington Post article he linked to, Stefanik’s campaign ad said Democrats “plan to grant amnesty to 11 MILLION illegal immigrants” which will “overthrow our current electorate and create a permanent liberal majority in Washington.” In other words, fierce conservative rhetoric, not conspiratorial white supremacism. They must be counting on these voters.
Feuer made the leap from “replacement theory” to…criticizing Colin Kaepernick?
….Trump repeatedly encouraged white grievances during his tenure by placing emphasis on N.F.L. and his border wall. Greenblatt stated that players who stood during the national anthem encouraged white Americans to feel threatened.
Violent extremists propagated a similar message.
Feuer cited the domestic terror attacks on a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018, and an attack in El Paso in 2019. Feuer then referred to the 2018 domestic terror attacks on a Pittsburgh synagogue and an attack in El Paso in 2019.
In fact, Republican officials in the past months have been trying to combat what they call critical race theory at schools. This has led to a troubling Increasing threats to school board members. Unscrupulous people also participated in the sending of hundreds At least 12 states have sent intimidating messages to their election officials.
After a Wisconsin domestic terror incident in which a BLM Supporter and Career Criminal left six people dead, this was done.
Feuer jumped to the attack on Capitol Square, January 6, 2001 (one wonders at his selfcontrol while waiting for paragraph 19).
What makes Feuer’s unfair attack on mainstream conservatism particularly galling is that he actually promoted dangerous left-wing extremism back in June 2006, reporting from a convention where people were convinced the Bush administration either knew or was actually instigated the 9-11 attacks that killed over 3,000 Americans. A text box described the conference as “Some participants saw an American tradition in questioning concentrated strength.”
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