White Beard
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It’s clear that many only want to give credence to scary “right-wing“ voices - that they’re already conditioned to discount *anything* that contradicts or pushes back against such scurrilous, bilious crap. That makes this article a litmus test: either you consider more than your favorite narrative, or you’ve set your OWN hair on fire.
The article is a good one; the author is someone I’ve fact-checked numerous times o ver the years, his work has always been solid. If your personal agenda actually includes the long-term health and well-being of the USA, you really ought to read it with an *actual* open mind, and genuinely consider what it says: it’s true to the extent that my personal knowledge and intelligence-gathering has been able to verify.
The Fox-bred “Antifa threat“ narrative began as a far-right conspiracy theory and went mainstream
The article is a good one; the author is someone I’ve fact-checked numerous times o ver the years, his work has always been solid. If your personal agenda actually includes the long-term health and well-being of the USA, you really ought to read it with an *actual* open mind, and genuinely consider what it says: it’s true to the extent that my personal knowledge and intelligence-gathering has been able to verify.
The Fox-bred “Antifa threat“ narrative began as a far-right conspiracy theory and went mainstream
Stop and think about it: As supposed existential threats to America go, “antifa” and its “dark shadows” sure did seem to come out of nowhere, didn’t they? Three years ago, hardly any American could have even told you what the word meant, let alone pronounce it.
Well, it indeed came largely out of nowhere—or more precisely, from the fevered imaginations of the white nationalists and far-right conspiracy theorists who demonized what really is a leftist movement dedicated to opposing their ugly racial politics. Those happen to be the same politics engendered by Donald Trump, so in short order, mainstream right-wing media—dedicated to defending Trump in every regard—managed to manufacture a frightening vision of scary and mysterious radicals whose “dark shadows” completely obliterated the growth of violent white nationalism from public view. And it worked.