Getting Lost While Mapping Georgia's Extremist Political Landscape

Nathaniel Jordan's article "Analyzing the right and left: Mapping Georgia’s extremist political landscape" was brought to my attention today.  In that article Jordan asserts that "Georgia’s extremist political atmosphere continues to sneak into national headlines, and recent events and growing organizations could ultimately alter the direction of Georgia’s politics."

CP-GA State Chairman Ricardo DavisThe article makes assertions that need attention. The CP-GA has never held official party meetings at the two locations noted in the article. (Check the Internet Archive.)  Because the author provided no factual information regarding any CP-GA officials attending "white nationalist protests" or supporting organizations with such events, the attempt to paint the party as "extremist" is wildly off course. If the article had included a picture of the CP-GA state chairman, who is obviously an African American then the absurdity of the article's claims would be clearly seen.

The second paragraph is more of what I would expect in a good journalism article, although he got the founding date of the state party incorrect (1996), the national party was organized in 1992 and the CP-GA is the state affiliate of the Constitution Party National Committee.

In 2017, I was interviewed on the program "Profit$ of Hate" which investigated the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), an organization shaping the "far right" narrative in popular culture.  The SPLC lists the CP-GA on their Hate Map in the "Antigovernment General" category.  Watch the documentary to  see how this ideological slight of hand works.

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