The New York Times on Saturday ran a profile of Tony and Maria Hovater, just your average 20–something, white, neo–Nazi couple from Ohio. Only one problem: People aren’t too thrilled about what they consider to be the newspaper’s normalization of modern–day Nazis.
Go figure.
The story, titled, “In America’s Heartland, a Voice of Hate Among ‘Normies,’” takes readers to New Carlisle, OH, a town of fewer than 6,000 people about an hour northeast of Cincinnati. It describes the Hovaters as, you know, “polite” and “low–key”—just your typical Midwestern couple. Except, of course, they are Nazis.
~Splinter News
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The NY Times story of the white Hovaters is on the left while the story of black Mike Brown is on the right. See the empathy oozing out of the words on the left and complete lack thereof on the right.
Mainstream white run news organizations still haven't figured out how they normalized and are still normalizing the nationalistic white supremacist enough for him to be president.
I'd bet a significant amount of money, if I had it, that the aim of this story is to tell both sides of the white racism equally. Only the white folks in charge of our news don't know they're trying to make white racism normal, trying to make it something can be seen as good from a certain perspective
...because they leave the word "white" or the word "racist" out of every article about white racism even when they are talking about neo-Nazis, Alt-Right, and KKK.
Even websites run by entities like the Southern Poverty Law Center, who track hate crimes and hate groups, has a way for you to rearrange their hate group data every-which-a-way. Yet the SPLC Law center does not have a way for you to get the most obviously relevant data, which would be the total number on the white racism groups on their hate group chart.
The number of white hate groups on their charts almost have to represent 85 to 90% of all the hate groups in the U.S. But the words "white racist" are too hard for the average white person...even white anti-racism "allies" to endure.
And this is precisely how the New York Times, who is ripping at Donald Trump daily, winds up trying to cover for the white racists that voted for a leader that's tearing this country apart.
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