Earnest question: is there any evidence that the people who stormed the Capitol were white supremacists, as they’re so often described?
They were many things - unpatriotic jackasses most of all - but I haven’t seen anything to indicate white supremacy motivated this thing.
They were many things - unpatriotic jackasses most of all - but I haven’t seen anything to indicate white supremacy motivated this thing.
That “white supremacist” has become just an amorphous descriptor of people the left doesn’t like is a really, really bad thing. Especially when censorship and cancel culture are en vogue.
Also - to be clear - I’m confident there were white supremacists who were involved. But we can’t define groups by a particular subset of their actors just because it’s convenient.
It is an enormous logical jump to go from “a few people had confederate flags among thousands of people” to “this was a white supremacist rally”
Words still have meaning even when you’re describing bad people. I would argue that they should actually be a lot more judicious when those are your subjects.
I guess my contention here is that we should stop saying things that aren’t true simply because they’re about bad - even evil - people and may make us feel good to say.
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