NYT reporter: Antifa Protesters In Charlottesville Were 'Hate-Filled' And Violent

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New York Times reporter Sheryl Gay Stolberg made the mistake of admitting that along with the abhorrent, violent, white supremacists who terrorized Charlottesville over the weekend, many Antifa protesters were also enacting "hate-filled" violence, as they've done in several other cities in recent months. For noting that the "hard left seemed as hate-filled as the alt-right" — citing "club-wielding 'antifa' beating white nationalists being led out of the park" — Stolberg was hammered online, even after repenting and issuing a correction that depicted the violent left in more heroic terms.

"A few wrap-it-up thoughts from Charlottesville: 1. Striking how many of the white nationalists were young people, almost entirely men," she wrote in a series of tweets Sunday. "2. The hard left seemed as hate-filled as alt-right. I saw club-wielding 'antifa' beating white nationalists being led out of the park[.] 3. Among my unanswered questions: police response. Why did things get out of hand so quickly? Could violence have been prevented?"

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And here's the "correction" she was referring to: "Rethinking this. Should have said violent, not hate-filled. They were standing up to hate," she wrote, casting the left's violence in heroic terms.

But that wasn't good enough. Stolberg's statement was met with strong rebuke from the social justice left who accused her of "normalizing Nazis" and drawing a "false equivalence" between the violent, racist white nationalists and the violent, fascistic Antifa. A few examples of the responses:

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