A Correction to More Proof the RGJ is Only Good for Puppies to Pee On

We're issuing a correction to an earlier post. RGJ columnist Quest Lakes reached out to us after upset over missing a distinction that she was only speaking about part of the protesters at the governor's mansion a few weeks ago. We'll let the email correspondence speak for itself.

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Quest Lakes (emphasis original):

​I noticed that you lied about what I wrote in my recent column on your blog. You know that I did NOT write that the ReOpen protesters in Carson City on May 2 were "white supremacists who sow chaos" etc. I wrote that the adherents to the Boogaloo movement, some of whom drove up from Las Vegas and were in attendance on May 2, "are white suprmacists who sow chaos and create political tension."  Here's what I wrote that you purposely misquoted: "But the thing that really caught my attention about this gathering were the boogaloo fans in the crowd. These are accelerationists who hope to incite an armed rebellion in the U.S., which they refer to as Civil War 2: Electric Boogaloo (boogaloo for short). They’re white supremacists who sow chaos and create political tension. The boogaloo goal has become increasingly popular with right-wing militias and self-described patriot groups that share a lust for a violent uprising targeting their political opponents, minorities, and law enforcement."

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Nevada Carry's response:

You give us too much credit for being malicious. "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence." We'll concede we should have stated that "some" of the protesters, specifically those you call "adherents to the Boogaloo movement" were maligned as as white supremacists. 

You defined "boogaloo fans" in the following sentence, starting with "These accelerationists..." That sentence is followed immediately by the sentence beginning "They're white supremacists."

So yes, in your words only some of the members of the crowd were maligned as white supremacists.

We've updated the original post and will issue a correction tomorrow morning. 

This appears to me like a distinction without a difference, however. We argue that the entire point of the article was to smear the protest as a whole by associating it with the white supremacist "boogaloo fans." And as a "boogaloo fan" who isn't a white supremacist, I take offense at the smear.  

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Again, the good news is that according to Lakes, only "some" protesters are white supremacists, and, unless we read it wrong, all of the "boogaloo fans."