President Trump’s comments about “both sides” being to blame for the violence during the white supremacist, Nazi rally in Charlottesville, VA,
During the 1950s, segregationist politicians often condemned the “extremists on both sides.”
By that, they meant the Klan & the NAACP.
In 1958, Gov. Orval Faubus of Arkansas, the chief architect of the Central High crisis, did the exact same thing.
Others did too. Here’s an editor of the Charlotte News, a Maryland school administrator & an official with Tennessee’s state school system.
The false equivalence was so widespread it became the standard for both national parties’ leaders — Dwight Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson.
— source zinnedproject.org by Kevin Kruse 2017-10-07