I have a suggestion for those in the so-called “mainstream liberal media.”
It is to ignore the idiots who gather to cheer the election of someone they believe has endorsed their “alt-right” political world view.
I refer to the white nationalists. These are the bald-faced racists of the world. They comprise a small, but vocal minority of Americans who are cheering Donald J. Trump’s election as president of the United States.
I get that you want to keep the evil elements of society in plain view. You want to keep your eyes on them. You want them exposed for the moronic evil ideas they espouse.
But I struggle with this idea of giving them more media coverage than they deserve. A group gathered this weekend in Washington to cheer Trump’s election. They numbered a couple hundred individuals. The founder of a group called the National Policy Institute spoke to his followers, some of whom stood and cheered his remarks.
Oh, and then a few of them hoisted their arms in Nazi-style salutes.
They love the coverage. They lust for the attention they’re getting.
The founder of this group, Richard Spencer, said this, according to The Atlantic: “America was until this past generation a white country designed for ourselves and our posterity. It is our creation, it is our inheritance, and it belongs to us.”
A white country? Really?
The term “alt-right” has become a euphemism for the hate groups forming on the fringes of the American political spectrum.
I guess I am left to ask: Do those on the “fringe” deserve the kind of media coverage reserved normally for those in the mainstream?