A couple of tells of a bad faith argument: one is you don’t name the person you’re arguing with, another is that you falsely paraphrase the argument because quoting it accurately would refute the point being made. 
The piece actually argues that Farrakhan is a fringe figure who retains a certain amount of support despite his bigotry because of NOI’s work among particularly impoverished communities, and because his white critics lack the standing to discredit him.
I could not be clearer about my enmity for Farrakhan; that’s not the same as not understanding the sources of his continuing relevance. If you don’t want to understand it that’s fine but don’t pretend I something I didn’t say.
Also, this genre of piece, which views black American anti-semitism as a distinct phenomenon from Western anti-semitism, contains more than a whiff of disbelief that the lower rung of America’s caste system could be so arrogant or ungrateful as to not be immune to bigotry.
Not aware of another community that has met that standard, incidentally.
