(September 1, 2017 at 11:15 pm)Brian37 Wrote:(September 1, 2017 at 9:25 pm)Court Jester Wrote: Charlottesville meant one thing: Stupid people do stupid things. If you get enough of them together, they do those things at a stupid scale.
About the same as we have seen throughout recorded history.
No, as I said in my prior post in this thread. I would be nice to have the luxury of ignoring the sickos, but the problem for the past 8 years but especially since Trump took the mask of the GOP dog whistle talk, we are now dealing with sickos whom feel politically emboldened.
You wouldn't call a Muslim terrorist slamming a car into pedestrians stupid, you would call them rightfully terrorists. A defenseless protester died because someone sick fucks sold that sick fuck the idea his "whiteness" was an endangered species.
Calling white nationalists stupid is a mistake. You can be stupid, and motivated and dangerous at the same time.
One asshole who was part of that rally afterwards was asked if he was sorry she died, he said no. That sick fuck is as bad as ISIS to me. Heather Heyer was UNARMED and protesting peacefully against the bullshit idea that there is a master race. Trump would claim his rhetoric was not responsible. I say he was, because he was not a no name he was throwing red meat to the far right and using political office to do it. If you go to White Nationalist websites such as the KKK or Neo Nazis or even individuals whom support that, you will find 99% support Trump.
When you show up with weapons of war you are not simply advocating free speech, your intent is to show dominance no different than ISIS.
It's not as much a luxury to ignor them as it is a choice. I would actually argue a wiser choice.
Arguing them is never going to change their mind, so protesting is a total waist of time and effort. Actually creates the head shaking of many people looking at both sides. I'm married to a black woman. I tend to have black family members around the house. It's not uncommon for them to watch the news and see a screen full of white people fighting over racism and here "what the fuck is wrong with those people". And they aren't referring to the racist degenerates.
I'd actually much rather flipping on the news and hear "Welcome to channel 59 news. In news today; there was a KKK rally in Indianapolis today. No one gave a shit. In other news....".
The argument builds their platform. It doesn't hurt it at all. Why argue a message that no one even listens to?
