THE REAL POLITICS OF HATE – AT 1:47 P.M. ET:  And, naturally, the story deals with a college campus, a very unsafe place for many students today.  From Fox:   

The leader of a College Republican group in New York City said he felt like there was "a target on my safety" after an Antifa group distributed pictures and personal information about all of the group's members, imploring opponents to let them know "what you think."

The flyers – spread online and littered around the Columbia University campus as early as Friday, ahead of an event with right-leaning political blogger Michael Cernovich – identified the board members of the Columbia University College Republicans student group.

“It’s crazy,” Ari Boosalis, CUCR president, told Fox News on Tuesday. “It put a target on my safety.”

A financial economics student at Columbia, Boosalis said the “doxing” – a practice of publishing personal information online, typically with a malicious intent – is just the latest string of harassment he has encountered this semester since it was announced that several right-leaning speakers had been invited to campus.

The harassment came via Twitter and LinkedIn and not only targeted Boosalis but also the other members of the CUCR board.

“I am the face of the [CUCR] and I can take whatever they say,” he said. “You can slander me, you can attack me all you want, and I can take it.”

He added: “But it’s going to other board members in smaller roles. That’s different level.”

COMMENT:  This is the classic "chilling effect."  How many students will want to get involved with College Republicans if they risk "doxing."  It's the same as the old McCarthyite technique of "naming names," except this involves real physical threats.

But in the eyes of the mainstream media, the real threats are coming from the right.  They are not.

October 25, 2017