| Munn75 said:
Also Cenk of the Young Turks literally said this in the original report: "Who picks up a brick and beats a 91 year old man over the head with it while shouting go back to your country? Well, I'll tell you who does. Insane, racist, right-wingers encouraged by the current administration." "They are among us man. They walk among us. They hate people that don't look like them and now they have bricks. I used to call them the brick voters, the people who support Donald Trump because they want to throw a brick through the establishment window. Now they are using the brick to beat us over the head. Man, fascism is here" |
My reading of that is that they are applying this incident to a larger context and not speaking about this incident in isolation. When they ask and answer their question, they are not saying "who was this individual" "it was these people", they are saying "who performs actions such as this" "this type of person". You can agree or disagree with them if you would like, but it seems clear to me at least, that their point is not that there were multiple racists involved, but instead that there are multiple racists across the country performing racist actions. That second paragraph you posted should make this obvious. They are not speaking in literal terms here.
I just don't get this outrage. It feels entirely manufactured.
And surrounding an incident such as this with manufactured outrage over pedantic criticisms of TYT seems gross to me.
