READ: Don’t Go to This Virginia Gun Rally – It is Just Charlottesville All Over Again
I have been seeing people claiming that Monday’s rally in Virginia will be “normie conservatives,” and that this means that the cops aren’t going to attack them and create a Charlottesville type situation.
However, it doesn’t matter who is at the rally. All that matters is who the media says is at the rally. And even before it has happened, the media has already totally settled on the idea that the rally will be filled with the same “White Supremacist Neo-Nazis” they claimed made up the entirety of the 2017 Charlottesville “Unite the Right” protest. And that these White Nazis are intent on starting a civil war.
Washington Post had this on the front page on Saturday:
The convoys and militias are coming, if social media posts are to be believed, headed to Virginia’s capital to take a stand for gun rights — or, in the words of some, to fan the flames of a civil war.
“I’ll be rolling into town early. I can’t give you my exact time for security reasons,” said Christian Yingling, head of the Pennsylvania Light Foot Militia and a leader at the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville in 2017.
“I organized a convoy, places we can meet up and drive up together. I’ll be leading it,” said Tammy Lee, a militia activist in Oklahoma.
Both Lee and Yingling were members of groups that signed consent decrees never to return to Charlottesville while armed, part of a lawsuit settlement over the violence there. But there is no restriction against coming to Richmond.
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On Thursday, the FBI arrested three alleged members of a white-supremacist group on gun charges, in part out of concern that they planned to attend the Richmond rally and incite violence.
If you’ve been at all associated with the right-wing over the last decade or so, you should be more than aware of the fact that what happens in any particular situation doesn’t really matter, at all – the only thing that matters is what narrative the media is able to form around a specific happening.
And the narrative around this happening has already been formed. It is already in the minds of everyone who pays attention to the media that the people going to Virginia on Monday for this rally are the same people who the media claims staged a terrorist attack on Charlottesville.
This narrative was formulated by Media Matters as the official media narrative on the event.
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