Elie Mystal: I’m not a racist, You’re racist!!!

Elie’s latest installment in the “look at the silly white racyists” starts, strangely.  Apparently, he went on TV and said some things:

Last Friday, I went on All-In with Chris Hayes to discuss billionaire Stephen Ross decision’s to hold a fundraiser for racist President Donald Trump. On air, I said, “I have no problem shining the light back on the donors who fund this kind of racialized hate. I mean, I go further. I want pitchforks and torches outside this man’s house in the Hamptons. I’ve been to the Hamptons, it’s very nice. There’s no reason it has to be. There’s no reason he should be able to have a nice little party. There’s no reason why people shouldn’t be able to be outside of his house and making their voices peacefully understood.” 

I stand by that, but I borked the structure a little. In my head, I wanted to go: “shine a light” –> “peacefully understood” –> “torches” –> “f**k the Hamptons.” The “torches” were supposed to parallel the “light” and the Hamptons bit was supposed to be the punchline. Same thoughts, same words, different order. These people who support Trump are racist assholes and I wanted to make the point that disagreeing with them peacefully doesn’t require disagreeing with them “nicely.” But structurally, the way it read in my mind versus the way it came out on air is the difference between getting screamed at by white people versus getting screamed at by white people with guns. 

If you think that came off as racist, you are wrong.  In fact that makes you racist: “The way I phrased it allowed the alt-right to take the first part and ignore the second part, with predictable results.”  See?  Racist.  Don’t think this has to do with race?  Read on:

Of course, I’m not in the business of actually caring about these people, so on Sunday on Joy Reid, I said this: 

You don’t communicate it to them — you beat them. Beat them. They are not a majority of this country. The majority of white people in this country are not a majority of the country. And all the people who are not fooled by this need to come together, go to the polls, go to the protests, do whatever you have to do. You do not negotiate with these people — you destroy them.

Got it, crackers?

https://abovethelaw.com/2019/08/hate-mail-dump-from-trump-supporters/