Is White Supremacy an Issue Worth Government and Political Attention?
Hate crimes increased by 17% in 2017, an unprecedented rise worth government attention. On both sides of the political aisle, it’s important to have a boogeyman. For example, an issue that the other side brings up must be dismissed outright as nothing but a made-up boogeyman. There’s no actual problem in your side, be it Democratic or Republican. What’s really happening is that the other side is trying to make an issue out of nothing. This is a tactic used frequently in discussions of US government to divert attention from certain issues to others that are believed to be real problems. Ann Coulter, for instance, knows exactly how to employ it. In her recent article entitled White Supremacists Ate My Homework , she illustrates this strategy on the topic of modern white supremacy, an issue of growing concern in modern politics and government. Her points are twofold. Firstly, she argues that modern white supremacy is a non-issue cooked up by angry Democrats out to harm Republicans....