Imagine if white supremacists had attacked Canadian journalists covering their demonstration in Quebec City last Sunday, pushing one of them down a flight of stairs and smashing the television camera of another.

Imagine if, in the wake of that unprovoked assault, they threatened on social media to do it again, not just to those journalists, but to any journalists whose reporting angered them.

I can pretty much guarantee you media across Canada would have been outraged, and would have denounced it across the land for days on end, as would politicians of all stripes.

Except all of this did happen last week.

The only thing is, it wasn’t a white supremacist or neo-Nazi group that did it.

It was a so-called “anti-fascist” one.

That’s right, the same folks some fools in the media have compared to Allied forces storming the beaches of Normandy to take on Hitler and the Nazis.

The reason this story has received little coverage — except for Global TV, whose reporter, Mike Armstrong, and cameraman, Jean-Vincent Verveille, were assaulted while covering dueling demonstrations in Quebec City, last Sunday — is that it doesn’t fit the narrative of our chattering classes.

Nor of our liberal media punditocracy.

That is, those who immediately jumped in with both feet declaring after the tragedy in Charlottesville that violence against fascists by so-called “anti-fascists” (Antifa) was heroic, and if not heroic, then justified, and if not justified, then understandable.

Clearly, not all the counter-protesters that we in the media have lazily identified as “Antifa” are or have been violent in the wake of Charlottesville.

All people of good will were appalled by the murder of innocent counter-protester Heather Heyer, 32, in Charlottesville two weeks ago when a car allegedly driven by a white supremacist plowed into a group of people marching to protest their presence in the town.

Many who have demonstrated against the white supremacists across North America in the wake of that tragedy are sincere individuals, who, while appalled by the vile racism of the neo-Nazis, would never resort to violence.

But the “Antifa” movement has always had at its core a group of masked, violent, thugs who delight in assaulting innocent people and destroying property.

These are the so-called “Black Bloc” cowards who assaulted the media in Quebec City last Sunday.

No rational human being who has ever seen the Black Bloc in action would compare them to the Allied forces who defeated the Nazis in World War II.

They were fighting for freedom, democracy, and the rule of law, as opposed to the Black Bloc, who are violent anarchists.

There’s a lesson to be learned in the painfully simplistic way many in the liberal media have portrayed events post-Charlottesville as a battle between “bad” fascists and “good” anti-fascists.

It’s that you don’t have to pick a side, unlike so many in the media who love conflict between easily identifiable forces of “good” and “evil.”

In the real world, equally condemning neo-Nazis and the Black Bloc is not a mutually exclusive exercise.

When Al Qaida declared war on ISIS in 2015, nobody felt the need to call one of them the good guys and the other the bad guys.

So why do it when it’s white supremacists versus the Black Bloc?

There are fights where the moral position is to want both sides to lose. This is one of them.