At the Surface: The Dangers of False Equivalency about Charlottesville

[Stan]

  By Jason Hines, Ph.D., J.D. am slightly ashamed and embarrassed that it takes incidents like what happened in Charlottesville yesterday to drive me back into the writer’s chair. I guess the very thing I have criticized has affected me. It becomes monotonous to continue to write 500-1000 words about how everything is going on in our society today is […]

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[phkrause]

Excellent article!!

[B/W Photodude]

This author is like many others out to trash Trump for anything. He does have a history of stating his dislike for extremist groups like the KKK and is unlike the previous regime where violence from the alt-left was not condemned. 

[CoAspen]

Alt-left, doesn't seem to exist or be a real group, just a word to be used for anything!

Alt-left, still undefined!

Alt-left, well you're a......

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The “alt-left” label, as it turns out, is much more insidious. It creates a false equivalence at the extremes and plays into racists’ hands. White supremacists want the far left to look more sexist and racist the same way center-left Democrats want them to — it gives them a foil. Of course they greeted Trump’s Tuesday proclamation with glee: While “alt-right” is designed to make neo-Nazis look more mainstream, “alt-left” is designed to make their enemies look less so. White nationalists had already pulled off a remarkable trick by bringing a moniker that obscured their hateful worldview into the national lexicon. And they’ve achieved another coup by snatching “alt-left” away from the Democrats and pushing it so hard that it eventually made its way out of the president’s mouth.