Millennials are yelling about Nazis again this weekend, but I’m going to be brutally honest here: They’ve cried wolf so often and so loud about this that I just don’t care anymore. I’m not even going to investigate what they’re talking about. Something about a New York Times article I think? If fascists ever really do organize again, they’ll have such an easy road to power in the U.S. thanks to the left.
i'm seeing the argument that the NYT piece was written with the intent that readers are able to make their own conclusions about nazis, and that the author clearly didn't like the subject.
my counter-argument: trump was elected.
— Randi Lee Harper (@randileeharper) November 26, 2017
Dear New York Times,
As an Asian-American doctor in the Deep South, a low-key Nazi attacked me in the parking garage. Please don't normalize white supremacy.
Sincerely,
Eugene Gu, MD— Eugene Gu, MD (@eugenegu) November 25, 2017
UPDATE
Okay, here’s the New York Times article: A Voice of Hate in America.
Everyone to NYT: “Don’t normalize Nazis!”
Me: I think people often confuse the words “normalize” and “recognize.” To observe or acknowledge a thing is not necessarily to mainstream it. The New York Times normalizing white supremacy would look like a weekly column called something like, “White Living Today.”
