Politics White Nationalist Rally turns to violence and terrorism

I think it's a human cancer. If fate (i.e. the first to most effectively leverage gunpowder--different from the first to invent, which I believe was the Chinese) had reversed the polarity of power, I'm sure there would have been atrocities committed against white people of similar scope. It's not like taking slaves or mass murder was at all limited to white people.

 

Are you suggesting we were courting each other with our fancy words?

...Because that's RIDICULOUS.

(Notice me, prunetang.)

 

Well, that's what always bothers me when watching a movie or documentary about slavery.

I THINK that I'd rather just die and would fight back but if everyone thought like me then it would have just been a slaughter.

It is just so different than the way our world is now. But so is having a chilled filtered water dispenser in my house. My entire reality is different so it is hard to judge.

 

It's rarely so straightforward. You can be beaten down physically or overpowered without dying or you can submit because you don't want your family tortured to death in front of you.

But you're right--it's hard to have a good perspective when your reality is so different.

 

You could argue that the recent rise in visible white nationalism (cancer that was in remission) is because the leftists (new cancerous cells) have been accusing people of being racists, bigots, or just being flat out evil for simply disagreeing with their politics for the past decade. I Fucking hate white power fucktards but as a person who is center-right I can see the frustration of it all.

All of this is just a result of the left and the right nudging each other over the past 60 years, except now it's turning into a fist fight. And it's sad that it's come to this.

 

I agree with all of this, thank you.

 

I get angry. Angry unlike most people. They'd have probably killed me at the first sign of it. My mom has one of those Sears portraits from when I was 6 months old and I look like someone stole my car I'm so pissed.

I'd either cry like a baby or explode like a grenade. No in between.

I smashed every door in a rental house we had when I was a teen. The last one I kept telling myself "don't smash the door, don't smash the door"

Then my mom said "what are you gonna do, punch the door?"

Yep, put my arm through it.

 

Nice adjective bruh.

 

You could argue that, certainly, but it sounds like a false equivalence to me. To me, that boils down to, "Hey, maybe if you didn't fight bigotry, people wouldn't feel so damn determined to be bigots." It is okay to just be against white supremacy, full stop, rather than trying to find a way to argue, "Yeah, but..."

 

More like full DON'T stop. With your words.

 

I don't know, these people look like the type that would own a house and have a nice car and take vacations every year 50 years ago. They probably think they're owed that for being white when it was a drastically different world that their parents lived in.

 

But what is bigotry and racism anymore? The definitions have been perverted to fit an agenda. I mean, for fucks sake you can get called a racist now for making food that isn't of your "culture". It's all gotten out of hand.

 

Yeah, that's been a constant cycle in this country and others. Eras change, industries come and go and that change displaces people, hurts them. The old stand-by example is that cars "displaced" (ended the jobs for) people who made horse-drawn buggies. Every time that type of upheaval occurs, there's usually an "out group" that takes the blame for why things feel crappier for the people who's jobs are gone, or going. Other types of immigrants have taken the brunt in past eras, and populists (whether fake or genuine, I certainly have my own opinion on that with Trump) have used that often-misplaced anger.

It would be overly reductive to claim that that's the only thing that fueled Trump's rise, and Democrats certainly have had their own problems for...about a generation, honestly, that have been somewhat covered up by extremely charismatic and savvy politicians, in Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. The party as a whole has struggled to have a consistent message to appeal to the lower-middle class people who are most at risk when eras change, as they've been changing over the past 20 years.

 

If Democrats want to appeal to the lower class, then they need to stop pandering to multi-millionaire celebrities and politicians, as well as billionaire activists. They also need to....for example.....not wear a $12,000 pantsuit to a forum about "Wealth Inequality", and leave the pearl-necklace bling off of their necks.

Wear jeans and a goddamn t-shirt once in a while. Or even some stupid, mass-produced hat with a slogan on it.

That would be a great start.

 

Seems you maybe on it. Let's see, somebody decides to take down the statue of Robert E. Lee, the famous general of the south in the war that ended over 150 years ago.
None of these current dudes probably know squat about the General. But Who the hell knows enough to decide now to put their hero away???

Well anyway, the boys in khakis come to town to protest loosing their symbol of a hero.
The boys black come to town to foil the plans of the boys in khaki.

Now at this point both are known as protesters with rights and all that shit.
Seem like a plan for big trouble.

Yep. One of the mental giants on the khaki team breaks loose and Scoooooores!

Geez! Why do they get to play this game?
Who else wants to play?

 

Just remember that they have swastikas on those khakis.

 

Gosh, that's terrible!

 

I just don't understand why, 150 years later, a man who was loved by both the North and the South (Lee was an officer in the Union army before he was a Confederate....I'll bet few protesters actually know that) is now a divisive symbol. Give me a fucking break.

They have statues of Lenin in Seattle, for fuck's sake. Was Communism really that fucking swell?