Liberals have already told us that the coronavirus will lead to children getting shot as well as mass shootings, but that apparently wasn’t scary enough so they ramped up their fear mongering. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, the real scourge of the coronavirus is that it will lead to a spike in white nationalism. I thought we had reached peak stupidity with the coronavirus hysteria, but here we are with a group of liberals saying that a virus will literally turn people into Nazis.
Rolling Stone was so concerned about this latest development in the coronavirus pandemic that they helped SPLC spread the word:
Anti-extremism experts are “quite concerned” about hateful rhetoric spiking in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic — not just because of a rise in anti-Asian sentiment related to the virus, but also due to people in self-quarantine being more exposed to extremist movements online.
During a call with reporters to discuss the findings of the annual Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) “Year in Hate” report, anti-extremism experts spoke at length about their concerns about violent white-nationalist rhetoric mounting in the midst of the pandemic, fueled in part by actions taken by the Trump administration.
Thank goodness they blamed President Trump by the second paragraph. I was worried this was a serious piece for a second there.
“We are seeing a huge uptick” in such rhetoric, said Eric Ward, executive director of the Western States Center. “A lot of it is happening on YouTube platforms and videos and others, at a time where much of the country is sheltering in place or practicing social distancing. Ironically, it will serve to give these individuals much more access [to an audience] than they would normally have.”
There are no “YouTube platforms” just YouTube and it’s a video platform so how are YouTube platforms different than videos? Also, YouTube doesn’t allow racist or extremist content, so how is any of this happening on the YouTubes? This “expert” sounds like and idiot and when people sound stupid they usually are stupid. In fact…
Ward also spoke to mounting anti-Asian sentiment in the midst of the panic over the pandemic, as exemplified by two recent hate-crime arrests in New York City and increased reports of discrimination against Asian people in Portland, Oregon. A recent report of a Trump administration official referring to the virus as “Kung flu” to a reporter of Asian descent has arguably added fuel to the fire.
The two recent hate crime arrests in NYC, that this bozo uses as proof of President Trump inspiring white nationalism are a Hispanic scumbag who assaulted an Asian man a black teenager who attacked an Asian man. Just so we are all clear, Hispanics and blacks are not white nationalists, mostly because they are not white.
Somehow this gets even dumber because these SPLC experts aren’t even talking about white nationalists:
Anti-extremism experts expressed concern about the impact the COVID-19 pandemic would have on hate groups’ ability to recruit and radicalize new members. While Ward noted that he had not seen an increase in rhetoric from accelerationist groups in recent weeks — a term for a splinter group of extremists that pushes for violence to bring about societal overhaul — “this is the kind of thing that folks who espouse neo-accelerationist ideology are looking for,” he said. “They want to capitalize on crisis and chaos.” (Indeed, one tweet shared with Rolling Stone shows a screen-grab of a Telegram thread in which ecofascists theorize about targeting electricity systems in areas where people are quarantined for this purpose.)
Ecofascists are leftist environmentalists and Antifa terrorists. Just so we are all clear, radical environmentalists are not white nationalists.
Putting this all together, the SPLC theory goes something like this: The coronavirus will lead to a spike in white nationalism because President Trump made some minorities attack other minorities and leftist tree-huggers are now neo-Nazis somehow.
The only thing the coronavirus will lead to a spike in is liberal insanity. This virus hasn’t shown to be any worse than the flu, but it has taken the lunatics on the left and made them ten times more crazy.
