{"id":375422,"date":"2018-08-30T02:50:46","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T01:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-cnn-analyst-says-its-racist-to-criticize-antifa-because-theyre-an-african-american-group\/"},"modified":"2018-08-30T02:50:46","modified_gmt":"2018-08-30T01:50:46","slug":"prison-planet-com-cnn-analyst-says-its-racist-to-criticize-antifa-because-theyre-an-african-american-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-cnn-analyst-says-its-racist-to-criticize-antifa-because-theyre-an-african-american-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb CNN Analyst Says It\u2019s Racist to Criticize Antifa Because They\u2019re an \u201cAfrican-American\u201d Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p>Jeffrey Toobin blasted for ridiculous claim<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paul Joseph Watson<\/strong><br \/>PrisonPlanet.com<br \/>August 29, 2018 <!-- NO_ADS_IN_ARTICLE --><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/290818toobin1.jpg\" alt=\"null\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\"><strong>CNN analyst Jeffrey Toobin reacted to President Trump\u2019s warning that Antifa was planning violence after the mid-terms by asserting it was racist to criticize Antifa because they\u2019re \u201cwidely perceived as an African-American organization.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">Yes, really.<\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">Earlier on Tuesday, a private conversation between Trump and Christian ministers was leaked in which Trump warned of dire consequences if Republicans lost the mid-terms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">\u201cThey will overturn everything that we\u2019ve done and they\u2019ll do it quickly and violently. And violently. There\u2019s violence. When you look at Antifa, and you look at some of these groups, these are violent people,\u201d Trump reportedly said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">CNN\u2019s Jeffrey Toobin reacted by claiming, \u201cThe theme here is, I\u2019m Donald Trump and I\u2019ll protect you from the scary black people.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">CNN Analyst Jeffrey Toobin says criticizing Antifa is racist because &#8220;Antifa is widely perceived as an African-American organization.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s odd, because every time I see Antifa, it&#8217;s full of runty, privileged, white trust fund babies.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SrB2qtuNb7\">pic.twitter.com\/SrB2qtuNb7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Paul Joseph Watson (@PrisonPlanet) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PrisonPlanet\/status\/1034607915255115776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 29, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">\u201cAntifa is widely perceived as an African-American organization\u2026.this is about black versus white, this is about Donald Trump\u2019s appeal to racism and it just happens all the time and we don\u2019t say it enough for what it is, but that\u2019s what\u2019s going on,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">A quick perusal of images of arrested Antifa members confirms that the group is overwhelmingly white and that Jeffrey Toobin is a race-baiting idiot.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/whitenatifa.jpg\" alt=\"null\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">Reaction to Toobin\u2019s absurd statement was swift.<\/p>\n<p class=\"unnamed10\" align=\"left\">\u201cThis is so incredibly false that it\u2019s unbelievable. Antifa is overwhelmingly white af,\u201d remarked Cassandra Fairbanks.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is so incredibly false that it\u2019s unbelievable. Antifa is overwhelmingly white af&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/cnn-analyst-says-its-racist-to-criticize-antifa-because-theyre-an-african-american-group.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeffrey Toobin blasted for ridiculous claim Paul Joseph WatsonPrisonPlanet.comAugust 29, 2018 CNN analyst Jeffrey Toobin reacted to President Trump\u2019s warning that Antifa was planning violence after the mid-terms by asserting it was racist to criticize Antifa because they\u2019re \u201cwidely perceived as an African-American organization.\u201d Yes, really. Earlier on Tuesday, a private conversation between Trump and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-375422","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375422\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}