Irresponsible journalists are trying to tar Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer with the same ‘white supremacist’ brush used on the president
With some regret, I must take rather strenuous issue with an opinion piece posted on the CBC website on April 16 by my cordial cyber-acquaintance Neil Macdonald, entitled “Why Is Conservative Politics Such a Natural Home for White Supremacists?” Neil sets out to answer the question with a completely spurious sequence of assertions and deductions. Inevitably, Donald Trump is the principal offender.
Macdonald pretends, in effect, that all nationalists are white nationalists, and that white nationalists are white supremacists. This is bunk.
Neil Macdonald is not to be outdone in vapid rhetorical questions: “Why is it that white supremacists from the neo-Nazis who threw celebratory salutes the night of his election, to former KKK leader David Duke, to the Charlottesville torchbearers, to the New Zealand murderer, or Cesar Sayoc, the Florida body-builder who sent explosives to Trump’s critics in 2018, gravitate right?” People believe what they want to believe, and some extremists imagined Trump shared some of their values, mainly...
Andrew Scheer is tarred with the same brush, for addressing, along with Faith Goldy and Maxime Bernier, a Yellow-Vest gathering in Ottawa last year. The Gilets Jaunes aren’t particularly right, and are as much left; they’re just robustly cranky French bourgeois, supplemented by a few non-political hooligans, the usual politically incoherent gang of demonstrators and vandals that have infested the grand boulevards of Paris intermittently for centuries.
Andrew Scheer is pilloried in the Macdonald piece for hiring someone from Rebel Media as his campaign manager . The whole tone and tenor of this nonsense is McCarthyism: innuendo, guilt by associations, group smears and exploitation of base instincts of paranoia and hostility to other groups, except it is inverted and the hostility is directed at the white majority on the false grounds that the majority is hostile to minorities.
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