OH-Sen: J.D. Vance (R) Busted For Calling Nazi March In Charlottesville A "Ridiculous Race Hoax"
- Daily Kos, Sept. 26, 2022. - Ed.
Kudos to David Corn at Mother Jones for catching the latest pathetic and atrocious flip flop from Never Trumper to pathetic ass kisser and U.S. Senate candidate, J.D. Vance (R. OH):
Last year, during a podcast with Breitbart, Vance expressed quite a different opinion on the Charlottesville march. Railing about identity politics, he accused Democrats of cynically and crassly playing the race card: “Basically, racism [for Democrats] is anything that doesn’t give the Democrats more power. And of course, the reason they use that accusation, it’s not because they care about minorities or not, because they care about racists or whatever the whatever the topic of the day is, it’s because they recognize it as a useful strategy to give them more power.” His No. 1 example of this: “the ridiculous race hoax in Charlottesville.”
Race hoax in Charlottesville? A rally was put on by neo-Nazis and white supremacists, and a white nationalist did kill a counter-protester. Where’s the hoax?
Vance was apparently adopting the right-wing talking point that Trump was unfairly pilloried for his “very fine people” remark. In the years after that march, a variety of Trumpers—including Dilbert creator Scott Adams—have run a campaign claiming that Trump’s “very fine people” comment did not refer to white supremacists & neo-Nazis but to others protesting the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee & that Trump has been a victim of, yes, another media-generated hoax. The problem (for them): The event was organized by white supremacists & billed as a white supremacist event. Trump has led this revisionism, contending the protesters included “neighborhood” folks who opposed taking down the statue. In the Trumpian media echo chamber, the supposedly warped depiction of Trump’s response to the rally has become known as the “Charlottesville hoax.” With his comment on the Breitbart podcast, Vance racialized this phony “hoax” & cited it as evidence that Democrats routinely & purposefully issue false charges of racism against Republicans.
This is not the only race-related matter on which Vance has pulled a 180, as he has journeyed from Trump-basher to Trump toady. In a 2017 interview, he raised the issue of “white privilege” and said, “It’s always important to note that there are obviously still advantages to being white, there are still disadvantages to being black.” Yet in a conversation last year with right-wing talk show host Bill Cunningham, Vance referred to “white privilege” as “ridiculous terminology” & claimed the left uses it “as a power play” to “shut up” conservatives so “they get to run things without any control, without any pushback from the real people.” In an interview with Breitbart, Vance said, the leftist narrative of “white privilege” is “disgusting.” Corn references Vance’s interview with CNN Wolf Blitzer back in 2017 where he spoke a different tone on Trump & Charlottesville:
BLITZER: -- I want to bring in someone with a unique perspective on the underlying issues in Charlottesville, Va. CNN Contributor J.D. Vance is joining us. He who grew up in a Rust Belt town in Ohio, a state that easily went to Trump in the 2016 election. He's the author of "Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family & Culture in Crisis." In the book dives into how many missed the mark on the white working- class that fueled Trump's campaign. J.D., excellent book. Give us your reaction when you saw what was going on in Charlottesville. - J.D. VANCE, CNN CONTRIBUTOR: Well, Wolf, you see people marching around doing the Nazi salute. I come from a family with a large number of military veterans, & from back in the day, people who actually went & fought the Nazis. It's really disturbing to see this display of white nationalism. And became doubly terrifying & terrible because it led to somebody losing their life. Like a lot of people, I watched the TV, was horrified. And it forced me to think, what's going on in our country & happening that this stuff is becoming seemingly more common. - BLITZER: You've done a lot of research in this area. It's the Nazi slogans that you hear, the anti-Semitism, racism, comments about women. What's motivating it? These are young people, by and large...
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