By Professor Doom
It’s so funny,
when a conservative speaker comes to campus, cries of “He’s a NAZI and must be
stopped!” spring up. Even Ben Shapiro gets called a Nazi often, despite his
well-documented Jewish faith. The mainstream media constantly warns us of the "growing" Nazi threat, with Nazi broadly defined as White Supremacist, Right Wing, Alt-Right, or, heck, anything not Leftist.
Hundreds of people will show up to shut down an alleged Nazi speaker.
Reasonable people have long conjectured that it isn’t Nazism that’s the issue,
it’s the “dangerous ideas” the speakers want to expose our kids to, as opposed
to the lethal Leftism that is the usual fare on college campus. Still, we have legions
of anti-Nazi protestors running around the country looking for Nazis to yell
at, or so it seems.
How many Nazis are
there, anyway? Those are a rare breed despite what the Left keeps screaming at
us. Most everyone with a Leftist finger pointed at them is demonstrably not a
Nazi. One would presume, if one could find a real Nazi, anyone supporting that
Nazi would likewise be a Nazi. But where to find a Nazi, a “patient zero” which
would allow us to have some idea if the Nazi problem is as bad as the Left
keeps screaming it is.
As luck would
have it, however, we got a break. Turns out University of North Florida happens
to have a student with swastika tattoos, shouting crazy stuff like “It’s ok to
be White!” and giving open disapproval of Black Lives Matter. Eh, for lack of a
better specimen, let’s suppose this guy is a Nazi.
Because he made
the incredibly violent threat against a Left-wing student group, promising to
(gasp!) “shut them down,” he was suspended from campus. Don’t get me wrong, I
respect admin’s decision here but…my admittedly feverish memory seems to recall
Leftists making far more aggressive statements than this, without punishment.
Anyway, as is his
right, the suspended student was going to protest his suspension, and he
publicized his intended actions. So, here we go:
We have about the
clearest Nazi-type person we’re going to get, advertising for supporters
against the “oppression” from admin. How many people did we get in support of
this Nazi, who, by extension, we might conjecture are Nazis themselves?
Now, the gentle reader should keep in mind
that this number of protestors, 4, is an upper limit to the number of Nazis we
have here. Some of those supporters might very well be showing up because of
the free speech issues, and some might be showing up because of the hypocrisy
issues.
But, worst case scenario, we have maybe 5
Nazis on this campus (including the guy being victimized for "hate speech").
Many white supremacists attending public
institutions have had the expression of their views protected under the First
Amendment, though UNF officials said that the combination of the gun and the
caption constituted a threat, which was why Parker was suspended.
--emphasis
added. Seriously, this stuff is way overblown, every time.
It really seems like the media is
exaggerating the “Nazi Threat.” The same article telling me that all of 5 Nazis
showed up doubles down by telling me “many” white supremacists (here used as a
synonym for Nazi) exist elsewhere who are getting their views protected under
the First Amendment (a rather weird claim to make on the face of it)…but we
seriously are looking at a handful, perhaps, at each large institution.
The counter-protest to this handful of
possible-Nazis numbered over 50, by the way. University officials didn’t want
the counter-protest, because those guys tend to turn violent, but, at least
this time around, it was peaceful.
One commentor pretty much sums it up:
Four knuckleheads, huh? So much for the
rise of fascism in America under Trump.
The media breathlessly promised us a
plethora of apocalypses based on Trump’s election, and one of those was,
indeed, that we’d be drowning in Nazis. Like every other such promise, it has
not come true, and I have no belief that the mainstream media’s other portents
of doom will come true.
Well, there is the promise of economic doom
for this country, although the mainstream media seldom mentions it…but I don’t
think Trump should be held totally responsible for that, since the foundations
for such an apocalypse were laid a century ago.
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