FIRST OFF, OUR FAKE PRESIDENT IS A PIECE OF STEAMING ORANGE SHIT WHO IS DUMB AS A ROCK AND HAS THE EMPATHY AND INSTINCTS OF WYATT'S OLDER BROTHER CHET FROM WEIRD SCIENCE. THAT'S NO SURPRISE. HE IS WHO HE IS. IT'S NO SURPRISE HE'S TRYING HIS HARDEST TO ESTABLISH A MYTHICAL "ALT-LEFT" THAT SOMEHOW IS THE EQUAL AND OPPOSITE EVIL TO THE RACIST ALT-RIGHT HE EMBRACES AND REPRESENTS. THE CLOSEST APPROXIMATION TO HIS IMAGINED ENEMY IS PERHAPS ANTIFA, BUT THEY WOULDN'T EXIST WITHOUT WANNABE FASCISTS LIKE HIM AND WHITE NATIONALISTS LIKE TRUMP'S FRIENDS WHO MARCHED ON CHARLOTTESVILLE WITH TORCHES. THE WORST YOU CAN SAY ABOUT ANTIFA IS THAT THEY REJECT THE PRINCIPLES OF NON-VIOLENT RESISTANCE, FOR WHICH I CAN HARDLY BLAME THEM CONSIDERING CONSERVATIVES' KNEE-JERK TENDENCY TO CHARACTERIZE ANY PROTEST AS VIOLENT, AND ALL POLICE VIOLENCE AS JUSTIFIED.
WORSE, THOUGH NO LESS SURPRISING, ARE MAINLINE CONSERVATIVE ATTEMPTS AT THE EXACT SAME THING TRUMP IS DOING. TEA PARTY DUDE ERICK-WOODS ERICKSON, IN HIS HEAD-SCRATCHINGLY SELF-CONTRADICTORY NEW YORK TIMES ARTICLE SUNDAY, SOMEHOW EQUATES WHITE SUPREMACISTS WITH "SOCIAL JUSTICE WARRIORS"*, CALLING THEM "TWO SIDES OF THE SAME COIN." THIS CONVENIENTLY REPRESSES THAT THE PEJORATIVE USE OF THE TERM "SOCIAL JUSTICE WARRIOR" (OR SJW'S, AS THE CONSERVABROS LIKE TO CALL THEM) IS LESS THAN A DECADE OLD, WHILE WHITE SUPREMACY IS A NOTION ENTANGLED IN OUR FLAWED NATION'S ENTIRE HISTORY AND SUPPORTED UNTIL A HALF-CENTURY AGO BY THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH HE NOW CALLS UPON TO SHEPHERD US THROUGH THE MESS THEY'VE HAD A HAND IN CREATING. THE MEASURED ACADEMIC IN ME WANTS TO CALL HIS ARGUMENT INTELLECTUALLY DISHONEST, BUT I'M CAPS LOCKED AND LOADED SO I'LL JUST GO AHEAD AND SAY IT: ERICK ERICKSON, WITH OR WITHOUT THE WOODS AND THE HYPHEN, IS AT LEAST AS RACIST AS DONALD TRUMP. AS THE NATION CONTINUES TO BE SOMEHOW SURPRISED THAT OUR FAKE PRESIDENT CAN'T BRING HIMSELF TO UNILATERALLY CONDEMN HIS BASE OF WHITE NATIONALISTS, CONSERVATIVES FLOODED SOCIAL MEDIA WITH SHARES OF ERICKSON'S EQUALLY UGLY ATTEMPTS TO DEFLECT BLAME AND PUT IT ON PEOPLE WHO, LIKE HIM, USE MEDIA TO EXPRESS OUTRAGE BUT WHO, UNLIKE HIM, ACKNOWLEDGE THE COMPLICATED AND SOMETIMES UGLY HISTORY WE ARE STILL LIVING.
* QUOTES IMPLY THE SEETHING IRONY OF THE ALT-RIGHT FROM WHOM ERICKSON CAN'T BRING HIMSELF TO PUBLICLY ADMIT HE STEALS HIS MOST CREATIVE IDEAS.
TL;DR: IF YOU REFUSE TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE SYSTEMIC RACISM IN U.S HISTORY AND OUR PRESENT CULTURE, YOU ARE BEING RACIST. IF, LIKE ERICKSON, YOU INSIST ON MAKING IT A SIMPLE PARTISAN ISSUE, YOU ARE BEING RACIST AND STUPID.