re: #223 HappyWarrior

Yep every interview with a white supremacist whose bigotry was just reduced to “alternate opinions”. Every false equivalency between anti fascists and real fascists.

“The Nazi next door is just like you.”

Readers Accuse Us of Normalizing a Nazi Sympathizer; We Respond (New York Times, November 26, 2017)

TL;DR version: We weren’t normalising him, the readers are overreacting. Nevertheless, we’ll try and do better.

Now back to the Trump Whisperer, Maggie Haberman on why our readers suck.

(In the over two thousand comments on that piece, conservatives swarmed the comment section to claim “no he’s not a Nazi” or “why do liberals want to stifle free speech.”)