It’s that time of year where the left-wing Anti-Defamation League puts out one of those little reports blaming white people and “right-wing radicals” for all of the world’s ills.
The ADL on Wednesday sounded the alarm with a new study purporting that “White Supremacist Propaganda Spikes in 2020.” But as detailed in my book Privileged Victims, anyone interested in ADL material has only to look at the specifics before realizing it’s a fraud.
“ADL’s Center on Extremism (COE) tracked a near-doubling of white supremacist propaganda efforts in 2020,” the report said, “which included the distribution of racist, antisemitic and anti-LGBTQ fliers, stickers, banners and posters.”
Gosh, that sounds awful! Who among us decent people would be distributing such material?
Here’s a hint: If you have any material reading the words “America First,” it’s you. That phrase is seriously an example of “white supremacist propaganda,” according to the ADL.
Also, if you’re not a fan of the months of rioting perpetrated by the Black Lives Matter activists, the ADL might be referring to you, too.
The report states that a group called “Patriot Front,” which the ADL considers to be white supremacist, “continues to avoid using traditional white supremacist language and symbols in its messaging, instead using ambiguous phrases such as ‘America First,’ ‘United we stand,’ ‘Better Dead Than Red,’ ‘Two Parties. One Tyranny,’ [and] ‘Reclaim America.'”
Hilarious. “Better dead than red,” a longtime anti-communist catchphrase, is now white supremacy, we’re told by the ADL.
Another example in the report of white supremacy was the slogan “Open Borders Spread Disease.” That’s interesting because we’re in the middle of a pandemic. President Biden considered restricting interstate travel to and from Florida during the pandemic. No one called that white supremacy.
To be sure, the report does identify some printed slogans by certain groups that would be considered by normal people to be hateful. But when they include “United we stand” as an example of bigotry, you begin to wonder why the ADL felt the need to pad their numbers.
Well, because they always do this.
In 2019 the ADL published a report on “Murder and Extremism in the United States in 2018.” That one said that 2018 “was a particularly active year for right-wing extremist murders.”
But, again, a review of the details shows that it’s not as it seems.
The examples in the study are laughable. Here’s one: “Richard Starry shot and killed four relatives at a local nursing center and at his home in an apparent act of domestic violence before killing himself. According to local media, Starry had been a member of a white supremacist group while in prison.”
Here’s another: “James Mathis, a member of the Georgia-based white supremacist prison gang Ghostface Gangsters, and his wife, Amanda Oakes, allegedly killed their six-month-old son and put his body in a freezer in a hotel room.”
So, when white people kill their own family members, even their own babies, that fits ADL’s definition of “right-wing violence.”
The ADL is a racket. Its latest report is just a reminder.
