Thread by @JewhadiTM

No, CNN: Nationalism Is Not White Supremacy spectator.org/no-cnn-nationa…

There they go again.

In response to President Trump’s saying that he is a “nationalist” — CNN freaked out.

Here’s the headline at @Mediaite:

"@DonLemon Stunned After Trump Called Himself a ‘Nationalist’: It’s ‘Loaded’ with Racial Undertones

“Wow,” Lemon reacted after a moment of laughter. “We’re gonna talk about that word tonight. It is a favorite of the alt-right and is loaded with nativist and racial undertones."

And globalist. Well, globalist has been used as a slur of sorts, sometimes even against those in the administration, often with anti-Semitic overtones. Which just happened to make the president come right out and embrace nationalism. Openly. And claim that mantle."

When did the word "globalism" become antisemitic and when did putting nation first become racist? The media just makes thing up - the more often they say it, the more it's accepted.

When Trump met with reporters at the WH Tuesday, @Acosta confronted him about his use of the word.

“There is a concern that you are sending coded language, or a dog whistle to some Americans out there, that what you really mean is you’re a white nationalist,” Mr. Acosta said.

Well.

One doesn’t know whether to laugh or cry at this. Laugh at the absurdity that the concept of “nationalism” has anything whatsoever to do with race.

Or cry at the realization that yet again, as is true of the Left throughout American history, the obsession with race is something the liberal media cannot and will not leave in the ash heap of history where it belongs.

Let’s start with the Oxford Dictionary definition of “nationalism.” Which is:

"A person who strongly identifies with their own nation and vigorously supports its interests, especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations."

Bingo.

There is no reference whatsoever of race for the obvious reason that nationalism has zero to do with race, much less white supremacy.

Memo to my CNN friends? Take a good look at this nationalist, per the World Atlas. His name? Mahatma Gandhi — the founding father of modern India and its independence from the British.

Here’s what the World Atlas says:

"Mahatma Gandhi is perhaps the most widely recognized figure of the Indian Nationalist Movement for his role in leading non-violent civil uprisings.…"

"In 1921, he became the leader of the Indian National Congress, a nationalist political party in India, which demanded nondiscriminatory laws, equal rights for men and women, peaceful inter-religious relations, overthrow of the caste system, and above all, Indian independence."

"During his lifetime, Gandhi carried out three major nationalist movements."

In other words, Gandhi, decidedly not a white guy, was a “nationalist” in the same fashion as Trump. Just as Trump correctly says his nationalism is about putting America first, Gandhi was about India first — an India run by Indians, not the British.

Which, not coincidentally, is exactly what was at issue in 1776 — a move to get American independence by getting the British out of America. As it were, 1776 and the Founding fathers were all about American nationalism.

But what about Hitler, the critics cry. What about Mussolini?

This suggested linking of Lincolnian nationalism with those of Italian Fascism and German Naziism so clearly ignores a vast deal of Italian and German history as well as that of the United States that it scarcely merits consideration.

Those twentieth-century dictators, exploiting economic distress and national humiliation, also held out economic dreams, one a corporate state economy, the other a clever wedding of nationalism and socialism.

So. Trump is out there standing up for the literal dictionary definition of nationalism, as a President “who strongly identifies with their own nation and vigorously supports its interests, especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations.”

He follows in the footsteps of Lincoln, Gandhi, and Churchill, nationalists all. And CNN turns this into white supremacy. Unreal.

The sad thing here is that yet again the only “dog whistle” to race is coming from those in the liberal media. And it is always for the same reason.

Liberals use race in politics to win elections. And liberals in the media use race to back up those liberal politicians.