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Don’t get me wrong: It’s not like it’s the first time.
I mean, seriously, I’ve gotten used to right-wingers mangling my words to suit their purposes, and attempting to smear me: either as an anti-white extremist (because even though I’m white, my Jewishness supposedly leads me to secretly seek the destruction of Aryan stock), or as one who is militantly anti-Christian.
And this they seek to demonstrate, typically, by digging up tweets or Facebook posts and presenting them either out of context or dishonestly representing what those statements say, hoping that those who see their version of things won’t investigate my actual comments and think for themselves.
It is a particularly pernicious kind of fake news, and it is modern currency for reactionaries, especially internet savvy younger ones who tend to take a slash-and-burn approach to their politics, and have learned these methods from the likes of the Breitbart gang and James O’Keefe.
Fortunately, I have the time to reply and demonstrate the depths of their duplicity. And doing so here will serve not only to make clear the disingenuousness of the smears in this particular instance, but will also serve to demonstrate the way in which right-wing media goes about its…
