(02-05-2017 03:11 AM)JOwl Wrote:  

(02-03-2017 03:53 PM)tanqtonic Wrote:  I find it very interesting that some tell others that they need to quote the extremists like Spencer and try to associate that ilk with anything on on the Republican side, but utterly fail to do the same association with the extremists (or 'rioters') associated with their own side of the pond.

You have this entirely backward. RiceLad's point was that Trump blew another dog whistle, crafted to prick up the ears of anti-Semites. You can stick your head in the sand if you want, but Trump's team is doing this stuff with intent. Who is Trump's number one influencer, his Karl Rove? Steve Bannon. Who is Steve Bannon? The guy who turned Breitbart News into what he himself described as the "platform for the alt-right" ( http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016...tbart-news ). And what is the alt-right*? A big mix of extreme conservatism, heavy on the white nationalism and anti-Semitism.

If you want evidence that a dog whistle has been used, what can you do but listen for the barking? I pointed out the Stormfront barking after Trump's subtly anti-Semitic campaign ad. Here, RiceLad is pointing it out in the Richard Spencer quotes. Barking.

Your references to the rioters are not comparable. Yes, those people are shitbags. Now if you were positing that Democratic leadership (Hillary, Obama, ...) is dog whistling them, it would support your contention that what Trump is doing is normal and happens on both sides. But you're not.

*If you want to know more about the alt-right, well let's see: Who does Milo Yiannopoulos (Breitbart's top writer) tell us "founded AlternativeRight.com, which would become a center of alt-right thought"? Why, none other than Richard Spencer! http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/03/29...alt-right/

The problem is that have already predefined 'alt-right' to mean nothing but 1488ers.

I guess if you believe that the alt-right set has nothing but 1488ers, you would be predestined to believe in the litany of dog-whistles that seems to abound.

Hate to tell you, the alt-right is not necessarily just clones of Rice alum William Pierce. But please believe as you want, its a free country.....