Maggie's Farm

I don't follow Cooper, he's got a subscription blog called 'Martyr Made' or something similar. Anyway, a couple of years or so ago, he had a Twitter comment that went supremely viral for a few days, laying out in short sentences the key points that have been driving the passion of Trump voters and conservatives, essentially the valid, unaddressed sore points that motivate them. It was succinct and very well done, and I feel certain that many would remember it if they read it now. I'm pretty sure it was covered here on Maggie's Farm. It articulate very well what a whole bunch of people were feeling.

I don't think that Cooper is an anti-semite, or a white supremacist. I do think this has been a golden opportunity to portray him as one, though, and Tucker Carlson too. He's a friend of Jocko Willink, a weight-lifter, and a mostly self-taught intellectual.

He has said this before, which I thought was a notable quote: “In Weimar Germany & Bolshevik Russia, churches were often not merely bulldozed, but converted into sex clubs, porn theaters, & brothels. Communists in Spain killed priests, raped nuns, and used churches as a place to sh*t, p*ss, & leave their trash. This is what these people do - what they always do - when they get control.” - - @MartyrMade

He has also said: "“People who would betray the confidentiality of the Supreme Court over a decision they didn’t like would certainly disregard the Constitution to arrive at one they did, and feel supremely righteous in both cases.”

These don't sound like things that an Anti-Semite might say. I haven't read into the issue at hand, not interested. If he said despicable things, then he is rightly being taken to task for it.
Now, Tucker has made some very poor choices of interview subjects over the past couple of years, but I've never been a fan of his, either. So to me, this is a tempest-in-a-teapot, an attack that might have some basis but is almost certainly being portrayed inaccurately and taken out of context to enhance the effect. The chattering class has so destroyed its credibility that this must be the starting position in any politically-charged discussion now. And since it's about two subjects that I don't really follow, I'll let the rats chew on it, without my input, and to the devil with all of them.

First of all, I said that I haven't followed the story and don't intend to, and then I followed with 'If he said despicable things, then he is rightly being taken to task for it. ' I should think that it should be clear that this is not somebody that I'm defending. I am pointing out that in our current culture, cancellation of people for artificially ginned up reasons to service political agendas has become the norm.

I don't follow Cooper. I know who he is. Those two facts are not in conflict.

Try constructing a profile of an anti-semite in your head, and then tell us the sort of things you imagine they would say. I am imagining that somebody being labeled an anti-semite would not be saying things that are against supremacy themes, or things that are in support of the kind of Western society that some of us miss having around.