More and more journalists are getting assigned to follow the alt-right and right-wing extremists. Remember Talia Lavin, who was supposed to teach a course at NYU this summer on “Reporting on the Far-Right”? She’s also the former fact-checker who smeared a former Marine as a Nazi by misidentifying his tattoo, but that didn’t stop Media Matters from hiring her on as a researcher “on far-right extremism and the alt-right.”

HuffPost too has its open reporter covering “the far right, disinformation, and hate.” Here he is keeping an eye on the fascists at Saturday’s “End Domestic Terrorism” rally in Portland.

And now the fascists are dancing to rave music? #Portland pic.twitter.com/DL1xS2Zro4 — Christopher Mathias (@letsgomathias) August 17, 2019

So if you’re there to rally against Antifa, then you’re a fascist? Hey, there might be some fascists in the crowd, but then again, we all know how triggering the sight of an American flag or a MAGA hat can be. If Alyssa Milano says a red hat is no different than a white hood, who are we to disagree?

Why do journalists conflate the term “fascist” to anyone wearing a MAGA hat? https://t.co/UGKXVicoiV — Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) August 17, 2019

I really hate that they sport the American flag — JayeLee (@JayeLee) August 17, 2019

Yeah, we know.

Care to back the claim that anyone there showing their faces are fascists? Please give citations with actual proof not fallacies from your opinion — Curtis Butler (@curtisbutler115) August 17, 2019

The “fascists” seem happier than you — GoshuAAAA (@Skipper1913) August 17, 2019

Where are the fascists? I don't see any antifa or black bloc in that video. — ayjaytrey (@ayjaytrey) August 17, 2019

Yeah, gonna need to see some evidence of them being ‘fascists’, chief. — Jeroen ?? (@klimatheist) August 17, 2019

Only one group there is being considered for designation as domestic terrorists. pic.twitter.com/9L9c5nKWpw — joey (@jokimla) August 17, 2019

And they call you a Journalist? You seem one sided in reporting… — Sotiri Dimpinoudis (@sotiridi) August 17, 2019

He covers the far-right and hate, so he’s got to come up with some far-right hate.

“Fascists” — Coopa Troopa (@coop222) August 17, 2019

Antifa are the real Fascist. Try to keep up. — Sammy4Justice (@Sammy4Justice) August 17, 2019

They are not Fascists. — Becky Bower (@beckybower651) August 17, 2019

Those aren’t fascists, you ignorant dolt. — Bee? (@infobee) August 17, 2019

Just because you call them fascists doesn’t mean they are fascists. Go reprogram your brainwashed self. — Inquisitor of Man ?? (@InquisitorOfMan) August 17, 2019

What a putrid hateful punk you are! These are American's, Deal with it . Do your self a favor and look up the term fascist. I think you'll find your filming the wrong people. — D.R. Cummings (@DseasRoss) August 17, 2019

Huff post is garbage — Sublime (@sublimebenjamin) August 17, 2019

Hey, it’s not like Mathias just throws the word “fascist” around indiscriminately; we’re just saying, this is his pinned tweet:

I went to a fascist rally in North Carolina last night. Read my dispatch. https://t.co/a3V0ylB5ie — Christopher Mathias (@letsgomathias) July 18, 2019

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