An excerpt from Salon -
From “All Lives Matter” to the terror in Charlottesville: How the media’s phony fairness got us here
Too many journalists were complicit in the rise of Trump and refuse to call the terror in Virginia by its name
By CHAUNCEY DEVEGA
The white supremacists who ran amok in Charlottesville, Virginia, last weekend do not wear white robes. Nor do they cover their faces. Instead, this new generation of white supremacists wears a uniform that consists of khaki pants, white shirts and red “Make America Great Again” hats in emulation of their idol, the current president of the United States.
Their regalia may differ from that of the white supremacist terrorists who killed at least 50,000 black Americans in the decades following the Civil War, but the threats and intimidation are very much the same.
The neo-Nazis, Kluxers, members of the so-called alt-right and the other white supremacists who descended upon Charlottesville to “Unite the Right” attacked anti-racist counter-protesters with bats, clubs, poles and sticks.
They threatened people with assault rifles and pistols. They threatened to burn down a black church. They assaulted members of the clergy. This was no minor donnybrook or fracas. It was a rampage. And the police did little to stop the attacks.
http://www.salon.com/2017/08/14/from-all-lives-matter-to-the-terror-in-charlottesville-how-the-medias-phony-fairness-got-us-here/
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