Politics White Nationalist Rally turns to violence and terrorism

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  1. Cippy91

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    No not because I say so, because I am realistic and it's a logical thing to think not just some hope and dream. Yeah dude in my perfect world, there would be no racists and people would stop focusing on color and rather the contents of the person. Shit I would end homelessness. In my perfect world there would be no poverty, no war.

    Guess what? you can't stop these things.
     
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    And some of the same people you want to denounce things, are the same people who are for war, who do crooked shit behind closed doors, these are the people you give a shit about. Crazy
     
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    It's not a logical thing to think that we've reduced it as much as possible. We have no idea what the "best realistic case" looks like, so we have no way to know how close we are to it. I'm sure 1960s Clippy was also saying, "Dude, we've already reduced racism as far as it's going to go--I'm just being realistic. It's only logical to think we can't reduce the level of racism further because, like, nothing can go to zero, you dig?"
     
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    Such a negativity takes so much work and effort to maintain.
     
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    You can't even make that comparison. Many white people back then stood with MLK, many were against it. Which is why it changed over time. I mean yeah I hope this small group of racists go away too but you can't change everybody, stop trying to actually. We have enough of that in society right now. People wanna make me believe a hajib is liberating or they wanna make me believe gender is a social construct, etc. It's cool to be progressive to an extent but as soon as you start getting silly with it, I am out.
     
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    The point was not that there is as much racism now as then. The point is, we have no idea where the "low" in racism is. There were surely people in the 1960s who said, "Look at all the progress made since the 1800s--this is probably as good as it'll get, you can't convert everyone." You keep fighting something that's wrong and you let it hit its low where it's going to be, not where people who don't really care one way or the other claim it is. Perhaps you believe in 50 years, things will look identical from a racism perspective--I certainly don't.
     
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    I am not sitting here saying I wouldn't want that either. I mean yeah sounds great I agree with you there
     
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    so deep bro
     
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    I would agree if there was some sort of planning, especially with some organized white supremacist group.

    The sight of these awful people, many armed and dressed like soldiers, was certainly intimidating. Lots of things are intimidating but aren't terrorism.

    At face value, these people were protesting the removal of the statue and nothing more.
     
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    As ugly as it is, they are entitled to free speech. It's hateful and hurtful. I didn't say it was a peaceful rally - both sides that went there were spoiling for, or willing to, fight.

    From the videos, both sides were throwing punches and worse.
     
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    Trust our resident "a pox on both their houses, I'm an independent" libertarian to bring out the "both sides were wrong, the neo Nazis and the people protesting the neo Nazis" guns.
     
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    Holy fuck the silly string really showed these cops whats up, god damn I would be shook

     
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    Not a progressive but let me show them how it's done.

    Damn you horrible people for silly stringing the police. Shame... shame on you!

    Watch, I'll be the only one brave enough to say this.
     
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    It's regrettable, but it's not terrorism. What were they trying to coerce?
     
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    The driver committed a politically motivated act of murder. How hard is this to grasp?
     
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