h/t Instapundit
[PJMedia] ...the issue that so many have (wrongly, in my view) made the central one--to direct all opprobrium at the Nazis who scheduled the original demonstration--also has a long lineage. Have you seen the old movie "Skokie"? It’s about a Nazi march in Skokie, Illinois, and stars Danny Kaye. He plays himself, a Jew very upset that monsters are going to parade through the streets of his town, and he resolves to fight it. Which we all applaud. But the film stresses that the Nazis are entitled to march, just as the Nazis were entitled to demonstrate in Charlottesville. And when they do, the rest of us should denounce them. As we do, with rare exceptions. That’s the way it’s supposed to work.
And, IMO, anybody who thinks that antifa aren't, at least, as bad as Nazis is an idiot.
It’s not supposed to degenerate into violence. Political leaders and the cops are supposed to prevent that. Both failed in Charlottesville. The pols condemned the Nazis but not the anarchist antifa mob, and the cops waited until the last minute before they acted. Why didn’t they act earlier? Most likely for two reasons: they weren’t ordered to, and because they didn’t want to end in front of politically ambitious prosecutors and DAs, a la Baltimore. They have learned that they themselves are, often as not, blamed for the violence.
Extremism breeds extremism. One can understand, though not approve, low IQs joining the Nazis (high IQ join alt-right) |