Equating normal people with the white nationalists who marched in Charlottesville, Va., chanting slogans such as “Jews will not replace us,” is insulting and wrong, but it’s a temptation some people just can’t resist.
Last week, we wrote about the Southern Poverty Law Center lumping in pro-family groups with neo-Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan on its list of hate organizations. Over the weekend, former Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., claimed the GOP’s policies on immigration and law enforcement were masked efforts to advance the cause of white supremacy. On Wednesday, the ACLU apologized for inadvertently promoting white supremacy after progressives criticized the nonprofit for tweeting a photo of a white baby captioned, “This is the future that ACLU members want.”
