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| Charlottesville: Lessons in Leftist Sadism and Media Dishonesty |
| 2021-12-11 |
| [News With Views] This is a book I was anxious to read. The author is the daughter of respected Southern historian Clyde N. Wilson, the leading authority on John C. Calhoun. I had a boots-on-the-ground source for information on what really happened on August 12, 2017 (relayed here and here). I became even more convinced that CNN (for example) is a lie factory. The year 2017 was a turning point. The unholy globalist-leftist alliance having lost the presidency in 2016, its denizens wanted revenge. Antifa and Black Lives Matter became increasingly violent. Corporate mass media invariably blamed race-related mayhem on "fascists," "white supremacists," "white nationalists," "Nazis." I knew of just one case where such a description might have been veridical: Dylann Roof shooting nine black people in North Charleston, S.C., which prompted a new wave of cancellations of Southern culture when a photograph surfaced of Roof posing with a Confederate flag. Black-on-white violence, which has always far exceeded white-on-black violence, continued to go unreported except on alternative sites that are now up against Big Tech censorship. With that as background, Anne Wilson Smith’s book is a welcome treatment of Unite the Right, and what happened that day. It is the only thing I’ve seen that even attempts fair-mindedness. Critics will say she is sympathetic to Jason Kessler, et al. Of course she’s sympathetic! Has anyone else given them half a chance? Wilson Smith pointedly asks: |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #3 Oh, speaking of "leftist sadism and media dishonesty," Fredo Cuomo's producer at CNN has been outed and arrested as a ped0phile-rapist CNN Senior Producer Who Worked With Cuomo Arrested For ‘Sickening’ Child Rape Crimes Just Days After The Anchor Was Accused Of Sexual Misconduct |
| Posted by: Merrick Ferret 2021-12-11 23:17 |
| #2 Ah'm reading 'Lays of Ancient Rome', a book of four narrative poems about life and war in Roman times. Written by Thomas Babington Macaulay, first published in 1842. An amazing set of ballads which someone from Rantburg thoughtfully referenced. Thank you. Then out spake brave Horatius The Captain of the Gate: "To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers, And the temples of his gods... Fantastic. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2021-12-11 15:39 |
| #1 Very upsetting. I downloaded the Kindle sample chapters for later, when I’m calmer. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2021-12-11 15:14 |