The following article by Kali Holloway was posted on the AlterNet website June 20, 2017:
The right has neglected to mention that “paid protesters” are part of the right-wing apparatus.
You may have mocked claims about the existence of paid protesters as just another lie from the right. As it turns out, at least on this one issue, they’re actually telling the truth. The problem is, the right neglected to mention those paid protesters are part of the right-wing apparatus.
The story starts last week, when the right wing decided to aim its selective outrage at a free staging of Shakespeare’s play “Julius Caesar” held in New York City’s Central Park. Mike Cernovich, a self-described member of the alt-right who thinks the U.S. should give immigrants IQ tests, put up a YouTube video in which he offered cash to any protesters willing to disrupt the play for pay. Continue reading “There Are Real Paid Protesters, but They’re All Right Wingers”