Breathless Reports About ‘Hate Groups’ Aim to Panic Americans Into Speech Controls

04/15/2019

The collective push to double down on a free-speech atmosphere already challenged post-Christchurch seems to beg the question: is it a surge in "hate" we're witnessing, or a surge in "hate panic"?

Groups like the SPLC and ADL engage in the "politics of spectacle." Their brand of anti-racism advocacy is "endemic to a certain kind of 'elite liberalism'" which "totally skew[s] the idea of how racism works and how to begin solving it." For these groups, this might actually be the whole point.