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01 Jun 2020
Alex Jones uses crime statistics to portray black people as violent threats and white people as preferred targets, aligning with white supremacist discourse.

So Alex is trotting out some crime statistics in an attempt to make the argument that black people commit more crimes against white people than the reverse. I don't want to parse words here. This is an argument that is right at home on Stormfront or on any white supremacist message board you can imagine. The goal here isn't to talk about actual dynamics in crime. It's to portray black people as violent threats and white people as the preferred target of those threats. Open white supremacists like David Duke and Jared Taylor have used this exact argument for years to claim that it's an inherent criminality that exists in black people. And even if Alex isn't directly saying that, his argument is built on that foundation. And there's no way he could possibly not be aware of that.

03 Feb 2020
The phrase 'diversity means less white people' is a common neo-Nazi and white supremacist talking point.

At the end of the sentence, when you say that diversity just means less white people, which I should pull out, is a common neo-Nazi white supremacist talking point. At the beginning of the sentence, you make a very incoherent sort of point. I think his point was Martin Luther King Jr. would have loved neo-Nazis. Like, legitimately, that diversity means less white people is a gigantic foundational talking point for white supremacist groups.