So the mainstream pundits are finally right. They said there was only one side behind the violence in Charlottesville last year, despite extensive reports of black-clad, far-left “Antifa” eagerly brawling with the white nationalists. This has since been cemented as an article of dogma among mainstream “liberals,” who seem determined to run interference for Antifa, even though Antifa is likely to go after them first.
But this year it looks like it’s really true. There is only one side in Charlottesville. As the New York Times summed it up, “With no sign of white supremacists there, tensions were confined to interactions between the left-leaning protesters and law enforcement.” Or, as I speculated on Friday, “It would be a supreme irony if the only news out of Charlottesville this weekend turns out to be scuffling between two groups—the police and Black Lives Matter or Antifa—who are both there to guard against the empty specter of neo-Nazis.”
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It wasn’t about the Nazis, either. “Antifa” and the far left don’t need the specter of white nationalists to condemn anyone and everything as racist. As one chant at Saturday’s Charlottesville protests put it, “Old Jim Crow, new Jim Crow, this racist system’s got to go.” They aren’t against Nazis. They’re against the entire American system of government, which they will tell you if you bother to listen.
The far left is not “anti-fascist” but pro-Communist, which makes them just another enemy of free speech, liberty, and the rule of law. That’s the broader sense in which there is only one side we need to worry about: the enemies of freedom, of which the far left and the fascists are just two sub-factions.
This Year, There Was Finally Only One Side Left In Charlottesville
But this year it looks like it’s really true. There is only one side in Charlottesville. As the New York Times summed it up, “With no sign of white supremacists there, tensions were confined to interactions between the left-leaning protesters and law enforcement.” Or, as I speculated on Friday, “It would be a supreme irony if the only news out of Charlottesville this weekend turns out to be scuffling between two groups—the police and Black Lives Matter or Antifa—who are both there to guard against the empty specter of neo-Nazis.”
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It wasn’t about the Nazis, either. “Antifa” and the far left don’t need the specter of white nationalists to condemn anyone and everything as racist. As one chant at Saturday’s Charlottesville protests put it, “Old Jim Crow, new Jim Crow, this racist system’s got to go.” They aren’t against Nazis. They’re against the entire American system of government, which they will tell you if you bother to listen.
The far left is not “anti-fascist” but pro-Communist, which makes them just another enemy of free speech, liberty, and the rule of law. That’s the broader sense in which there is only one side we need to worry about: the enemies of freedom, of which the far left and the fascists are just two sub-factions.
This Year, There Was Finally Only One Side Left In Charlottesville
