Stew Peters has nearly a million followers on X, based entirely on his constant antisemitic rants.
There’s quite a market for that these days. Leftist antisemitism has been going strong for over 2 years, and right-wing antisemitism is slowly catching up, although it is not normalized in the way it is on the left these days. But as the backlash against left identity politics gains steam, the white identity fringe is gaining prominence.
Unlike some people, I don’t attribute any one act of violence to the “incitement” of extremists, although it is clear that when a climate of hate is created and fostered, an outbreak of violence becomes inevitable. Short of exhorting people to kill some specified group in a specific way, I see no way to prevent people from creating that climate of hate other than arguing against them and ridiculing them.
That’s why I…
