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RE: White supremacists and counter protesters clash in Charlottesville
August 12, 2017 at 12:34 pm
Probably should be giving gang wars in Chicago equally proportional coverage to the Charlottesville thing.
IOW, 1000 hours of Chicago for every hour of Charlottesville . . . .
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RE: White supremacists and counter protesters clash in Charlottesville
August 12, 2017 at 12:38 pm
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Ryan is on twitter blaming the left for what the bigots are doing. The entire GOP is gone bat shit insane.
(August 12, 2017 at 12:34 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: Probably should be giving gang wars in Chicago equally proportional coverage to the Charlottesville thing.
IOW, 1000 hours of Chicago for every hour of Charlottesville . . . .
Really?
The issue with all cities isn't skin tone, but economic segregation. If you think that is going to simply remain a city thing West Virginia because of it's opiate problem wont be fare behind looking like what you are talking about.
And if we are going to talk about gun violence, that is also not strictly a city thing. I live out here in the sticks and I hear about gun violence every day.
The issue is economics, not race. The GOP has sold bigotry for decades, you do not get equate bigotry to the economic inequality.
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RE: White supremacists and counter protesters clash in Charlottesville
August 12, 2017 at 1:18 pm
Wasn't Robert E Lee opposed to slavery?
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RE: White supremacists and counter protesters clash in Charlottesville
August 12, 2017 at 1:31 pm
No. He held and expressed a convenient opinion that allowed him to maintain his social status and property, including slaves, while virtue signalling as a christian.
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RE: White supremacists and counter protesters clash in Charlottesville
August 12, 2017 at 1:35 pm
Nobody dead in Charlottesville today, it's the weekend so I'm assuming we already have fresh corpses on the ground in Chicago today.
Funny which lives matter and which ones don't . . .
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RE: White supremacists and counter protesters clash in Charlottesville
August 12, 2017 at 1:41 pm
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(August 12, 2017 at 12:04 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Wait, wait, wait -- I know for sure it was only the radical left that clashed with police. Everyone know the radical right are well-behaved, upstanding citizens!
If they are obstructing roads surely we can just plough them down..I'm sure I saw that somewhere!
You know how the right keep saying they aren't actually on the side of the Nazis.
And the they carry around swastikas?
American Alt right are doing it today, turn on the news and you will see supporters of the right doing it now.
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RE: White supremacists and counter protesters clash in Charlottesville
August 12, 2017 at 2:13 pm
And according to an alert by CBS on my FB, that is precisely what has now happened. A vehicle has struck protesters.
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RE: White supremacists and counter protesters clash in Charlottesville
August 12, 2017 at 2:17 pm
(August 12, 2017 at 2:13 pm)c172 Wrote: And according to an alert by CBS on my FB, that is precisely what has now happened. A vehicle has struck protesters.
Is that a bad thing? before I answer I must know the colour and political leanings of the struck and or driver......(sarcasm)
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RE: White supremacists and counter protesters clash in Charlottesville
August 12, 2017 at 2:21 pm
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(August 12, 2017 at 12:34 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: Probably should be giving gang wars in Chicago equally proportional coverage to the Charlottesville thing.
Gang members aren't lobbying for discrimination, deportation and extermination of other races. Gang members are not a political bloc and therefore not an existential threat to US democracy because they don't vote.
These people do. Your comparison is so off the mark, it's not even wrong. Nazis actually took over a country, launched a war and ended up murdering millions. And your closest whataboutism is a bunch of modern day highway men and bandits?
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What. I am so floored by this, I question my ability to detect sarcasm. I swear, if you were satirizing False Balance, you could not have done it better.
"Nazis and white supremacists who hate Blacks, Jews and other non-whites march for political solidarity to unite their political power. But first, we have to give equal time to a bunch of commonplace thugs only interested in their own small territories and gang lifestyle!"
How does that even dawn on you (or anyone)? Did you forget to note that plenty of whites have died from drug overdoses today? Some whites have probably murdered others. Why is it that violent death concerns you but not a public health crisis that acts more like a biblical plague?
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RE: White supremacists and counter protesters clash in Charlottesville
August 12, 2017 at 2:22 pm
Oh, and here's the link to the feed. Forgot about that.
https://www.facebook.com/CBSNews/videos/...695445950/
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