On Wednesday, Chris Hayes, the MSNBC propagandist I’ve seen described as being somewhat less masculine than Rachel Maddow, stepped on a virtual rake when he described Trump supporters as Nazis on Twitter:
Street clashes between antifa and nazis as a regular feature of American political life does not seem like a good development.
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) April 26, 2017
Naturally, this didn’t sit too well with many.
https://twitter.com/MarkDice/status/857419804868661248
Dice wasn’t finished:
https://twitter.com/MarkDice/status/857420242628231168
https://twitter.com/MarkDice/status/857420512066027520
One person explained:
https://twitter.com/immigrant4trump/status/857475051079204865
New York magazine writer Jonathan Chait noted:
also, the acceptable targets have expanded from Nazis to all Republicans now https://t.co/Q8GM8jHuot
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— Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait) April 26, 2017
And as we reported here, those threats of violence from leftists prompted organizers to cancel a parade originally set for this weekend.
Another person noted that Antifa thugs have threatened much more than Republicans or Trump supporters:
You're at best ignorant if you think these AntiFa terrorists only want to kill the right-wing, Republicans or "Nazis". pic.twitter.com/iaBAoUeZE8
— ????/K/aitilyn???????? (@kitty_Kaiti) April 26, 2017
Hayes tried to backtrack but ended up stepping on yet another virtual rake, suggesting that those opposed to Antifa are white supremacists:
I was referring to white supremacists calling for a rally to battle antifa explicitly.
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) April 26, 2017
He got hammered for that as well:
They are all actually white? Every one of them? Just wondering.
Not one minority dislikes #antifa? Great generalization.
— Mike (@Fuctupmind) April 27, 2017
And there was more:
Calling the people with whom antifa clash "nazis" is misleading. They're regularly not nazis, but rather ppl whom antifa disagrees
— Jarred Stancil (@I_TheLiving) April 26, 2017
It isn't Trump supporters trying to shut down free speech. Committing acts of violence, beating people, & fomenting domestic terrorist acts
— Will Gregory (@Shinobi1kenobii) April 27, 2017
Writing at the Daily Wire, Joseph Curl noted:
Now, forget that the antifa is actually much more like the adherents to the authoritarian fascist Hitler. And forget that ad hominem attacks are the weakest form of argument in political discourse, and that calling someone a “Nazi” is the weakest form of ad hominem attacks.
When a political talk show host calls people who don’t think like him “Nazis,” there really isn’t anywhere to go with that debate.
We agree.
Keep in mind that Hayes has a long history of this kind of nonsense as I noted here at Newsbusters back in 2013 and here back in 2012.
Related:
- MSNBC’s Chris Hayes: ISIS in ‘heroic romantic struggle’
- MSNBC’s Chris Hayes: Rush Limbaugh a ‘tyrant’
- Video: ANTIFA member punches reporter, claims it was in self-defense
- Portland’s ‘Avenue of Roses Parade’ canceled after threats of violence by radical leftists
- Expert on liberal organizing warns: Violent Antifa could morph into death squads
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