re: #268 whitebeach

Mouse, damn it, the right-wing media are always gonna frame the narrative in their nazi manner. They are always gonna try to make gay rights, or BLM, or the women’s movement, or even science look like commie plots, and they will always find or invent some connection to make it seem so. The job of every decent human being is to make these assholes look as ridiculous as they are and to spit on them if we happen to see them on the street.

So I agree with bluegrl21 on this. But I also don’t think that your comment should have been downdinged by anyone.

I’ve been going through more: Yahoo News is now painting the Women’s March as anti-Semitic, Planned Parenthood in Hawai’i has denounced the anti-Semitism and cut ties with the Women’s March, &c. By tomorrow, expect it on television and in the New York Times and Washington Post if local groups don’t definitively disavow Farrakhan. I’d bet my next VA disability cheque on that.

Yes the right wing will frame issues to benefit themselves. If the left wing just sits back and lets them do it, then they cede the ground without a fight.

Fortunately, the Parkland survivors didn’t take that attitude with the NRA. That’s why the NRA is losing.

Local Women’s March groups not definitively denouncing Farrakhan leaves them open to claims of anti-Semitism (regardless of the facts of the matter). That’s just the way it is. The media will play any controversy, and boy oh boy, painting women seeking equal treatment as anti-Semites will get some eyeballs on Websites.