RE: White supremacists and counter protesters clash in Charlottesville
August 14, 2017 at 8:33 am
(August 14, 2017 at 8:20 am)Mermaid Wrote:(August 13, 2017 at 6:53 pm)Court Jester Wrote: Oh, please. Let's not be too overly dramatic.
It was a national organization that couldn't muster more than a few hundred ass hats to protest for the weekend. That hardly points to a mass issue.
It absolutely does. Have you read comments on news stories? They have a lot of support, and it's not just trolls. This is the America that POC have been telling us about all along, but we just didn't believe them. They are in the white house, FFS.
This is not a splinter.
I 100% agree. I think there is still far too much old money and Nixon bitterness still infecting modern politics. We saw the same far right support when the right wing terrorists took over the nature reserve.
The amount of right wing religious hate groups shot through the roof when Obama got elected the first time. Since then the GOP and 45 have dog whistled to that far right base. No, of course not all GOP are bigots, but just like the middle east and Islam, it has just enough support to cause problems.
I would love nothing more that for poor urban blacks and poor rural whites to understand nationwide that economics should be what we all have in common. But only 1 party for decades has been using race to distract the middle class and working poor of all races from the fact they use that to protect corporate welfare.
But no, those statues should not stand in their current context. Those statues of the military of the south can only be appropriate in the context of a museum of what not to do to our fellow humans.
