I have as little love and respect for Ann Coulter as the next guy, but you do have to wonder if the constant barrage of unfounded and contrived claims of "white supremecy" and "white racism" on social media leads to the kind of incidents we saw recently where a white guy was kidnapped and tortured by four black kids. Unfortunately, kids these days are heavily influenced by what they read on social media, and often lack the critical thinking skills to see what's BS and what's factual. Nor do they bother to follow up on the supposed " white racist incidents" later. How many heard about the black church that was burned down in Mississippi, spray painted with "Vote Trump" but didn't know it was a fake hate crime done by a black guy? Or the Muslim women who made up stories about being attacked by white Trump loving white supremecists? Or that the whole "Hands up, don't shoot!" from Ferguson was determined to be a total fabrication?
A couple of months ago, I read a poll where young black kids were very concerned these days about white racists/supremecists. When in fact, its probably the last thing the average black kid needs to worry about. I'll have to see if I can dig up the poll. It was kind of disturbing.
ETA: Here it is:
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/6e2d87c96bf84ee69d5c1325f674cd68/genforward-poll-young-americans-worry-over-extremist-threat
Sixty-two percent of young African-Americans and 55 percent of Hispanics surveyed said they were very concerned about the threat of violence committed by white extremists, compared to one-third of whites and 41 percent of Asian-Americans.
GenForward is a survey by the Black Youth Project at the University of Chicago with the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. The poll is designed to pay special attention to the voices of young adults of color, highlighting how race and ethnicity shape the opinions of a new generation.
Gregg Higgins, 27, was one of the whites who said he was very worried about violence by extremists in his own race. In fact, he said he was more concerned about "the homegrown white extremists" than the threat of violence from people outside the United States or people inspired by foreign extremists.
