Think about it, how many times over the years were certain people complaining about having prominent gay characters could turn children gay? So have we become desensitized or has the TV in general popularized the alt-right with consistent coverage? – PB/TK
How left-wing media focus on far right groups is helping to normalize hate –Lois Beckett Sunday 5 March 2017 07.00 EST
For months, journalists have debated how to cover the alt-right, a fractured far right movement of racists, misogynists and antisemites that greeted Trump’s victory with euphoria.
In these debates, liberals have often framed the greatest danger as understating or “normalizing” the true extremism of Trump and his allies.
But in a joint podcast in December, three alt-right leaders took the opposite view: by connecting their extreme views with those of White House leaders, journalists and left-wing advocates had done extremists a favor.
The neo-Nazi, the white nationalist and the antisemite all agreed: the media coverage of the alt-right had been amazing.
The coverage is “very good, all the things they’re doing are so good”, said the Neo-Nazi Internet troll. “They’re now saying that Steve Bannon is a neo-Nazi. I mean, think about how, how great that is!”
“They’re giving us the microphone out of their own sort of paranoia and neurosis and sort of perverse desire to actually empower us,” said an anti-Semitic and eugenicist blogger and podcast host.
“I think in a weird level the left, like, secretly wants us to rise,” said Richard Spencer, who became the face of the alt-right in media reports and was profiled as America’s “dapper white nationalist”.
Continue to the guardian.com article: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/05/left-wing-media-far-right-normalize-hate-trump
