NBC News inadvertently showed the pathetic and sorry state of the white supremacist threat it typically hypes, while demonstrating a graver threat.
[NBC News' Brandy Zadrozny] notes, without self-awareness, that the WLM rallies were “the first major real-world organizing efforts by white supremacists since 2018.” She speaks of their activities being sabotaged by more sophisticated counter-activists. Quoting an Elon University tracker of online extremism, Megan Squire, she writes of the North Carolina cohort of non-ralliers that:
The online organizers of the…rally were uninformed about state law governing protests, including laws that disallowed firearms…The organizers were also generally inept at using Telegram, where the event was announced, and unable to identify “obvious trolls in their midst.”
The efforts behind Sunday’s rallies were “haphazard and ill-informed,” Squire said. “They’re not sending their best.”
If what Zadrozny says is true, why cover these clowns?
Beyond the political imperative to continue injecting concerns over white supremacy into the national dialogue, the answer appears to be that Zadrozny wants to make a separate case, not about the power of the domestic extremists, but their opposition.
She suggests that the likes of radical and violent Antifa, the media, Big Tech, and law enforcement are all aligned in seeking to silence and chill “extremists”—which again may well be anyone who opposes their agenda, not just the neo-Nazis and skinheads that the charge of white supremacism conjures up, and who Americans universally loathe.
