no thread on the alt right march in charlottesville?

[Pavlov]

I'll give Canuck Eva Braun a little credit. She was on scene when James Fields murdered Heather Heyer, but her first instinct when she got her wits about her was to take a selfie then get in the way of people trying to help the injured.

[Chris]

I agree!

[Pavlov]

I agree!

That one on the right isn't being destroyed. It's being moved.

[Spurminator]

Of course, the consequence of this dynamic is that taboo political ideas of all stripes can lead to workplace sanctions. While many on the political left are now lauding firings as a way to hold white supremacists accountable, it’s also worth remembering that pressuring employers to sever ties based on political activities, or social and racial beliefs, has historically been targeted in the other direction. McCarthyism involved reporting Communists and Communist sympathizers and pushing them out of the workforce, and Hollywood in particular. And as Walter Greason, a historian and professor at Monmouth University said in an interview, “Historically it's more dangerous as an employee to be associated with racial justice and the NAACP, than it was to be affiliated with the KKK.”

https://www.reddit.com/r/law/comment...99&sh=d4fa445d

A fair point, but also a few differences.

McCarthy held congressional hearings to weed out Communists based on their private behavior or beliefs. I don't think we're close to the Berkeley Hot Dog guy having to appear before Congress and being coerced to name other neo-Nazis based on their private behavior. If Communists were out in the open and in the newspapers rallying for Communism, McCarthy probably wouldn't have even needed to have hearings, and I think even now history would be a little more forgiving about those people being blacklisted during the Cold War.

[midnightpulp]

I agree!

False equivalency, my soccer hating bro.

Monument on the left is over millennia old and doesn't carry with it any sort of racist connotations.

Monument on the right was erected by rednecks in the 30s Jim Crow era out of saltiness from losing the civil war and to remind everyone that while the South might be a part of the Union in name, they aren't in spirit.

It'd be like Mexicans erecting a statue of Santa Ana in El Paso.

Furthermore, the statue has no historical or artistic value. Melt it down for scrap.

[Chris]

False equivalency, my soccer hating bro.

Monument on the left is over millennia old and doesn't carry with it any sort of racist connotations.

Monument on the right was erected by rednecks in the 30s Jim Crow era out of saltiness from losing the civil war and to remind everyone that while the South might be a part of the Union in name, they aren't in spirit.

It'd be like Mexicans erecting a statue of Santa Ana in El Paso.

Furthermore, the statue has no historical or artistic value. Melt it down for scrap.

It still sets a disturbing trend of destroy whatever offends or might offend future generations. Book burning is honestly not a far cry at this point, though with digital media it certainly becomes futile. Just because we don't like our sordid past, doesn't meant we have the right to erase it to coddle a selective group of people. It's just as good as sweeping the dirt under the rug imo.

[Pavlov]

It still sets a disturbing trend of destroy whatever offends or might offend future generations. Book burning is honestly not a far cry at this point, though with digital media it certainly becomes futile. Just because we don't like our sordid past, doesn't meant we have the right to erase it to coddle a selective group of people. It's just as good as sweeping the dirt under the rug imo.

Nah, we don't need to keep explicitly racist monuments in places of honor. Move 'em out.

[Chris]

....and here we go.

Leftist Activists Demand New York Museum Take Down Statue of ‘Racist’ Theodore Roosevelt

http://www.dailywire.com/news/19741/...mpaign=dwbrand

Social justice warriors are never satisfied. If you give them an inch, they’ll take a mile. After demanding that southern states take down statues of Confederate figures, the activist Left is now targeting an iconic American president featured on Mount Rushmore.

On Monday, more than 200 SJW zealots held a protest inside the American Museum of Natural History in New York City to take down the supposedly “racist” statue of former President Theodore Roosevelt. The protest’s organizers, NYC Stands with Standing Rock and Decolonize This Place, also called for Columbus Day to be renamed Indigenous People’s Day.

“A stark embodiment of the white supremacy that Roosevelt himself espoused and promoted,” pontificated the group of protesters in a statement. “The statue is seen as an affront to all who pass it on entering the museum, but especially to African and Native Americans.”

Marching around the museum in a fit of self-righteous rage, protesters carried signs that read “BLACK LIVES MATTER,” “DECOLONIZE THIS MUSEUM,” and “ABOLISH WHITE SUPREMACY.”

The entire spectacle was underscored by a sort of religious fanaticism.

In fact, the devout left-wing activists moved from exhibit to exhibit in a trance-like motion burning sage and exuberantly playing Native American music.

Activists had purportedly planned the event three weeks in advance in order to make the bizarre show of leftist rage as special as possible.

"The group started with a 10-stop tour of the museum in which they highlighted a variety of exhibits they felt were racist and misrepresentative, which ranged from how the representation of Africans reinforces negative stereotypes to the exoticizing of Islam in the Hall of Islam exhibit,” reports The Guardian.

While the protesters managed to create a disruption at the museum, they failed to take down Roosevelt’s statue mounted outside thanks to 25 police officers who stood guard and protected the president.

[Spurminator]

It still sets a disturbing trend of destroy whatever offends or might offend future generations.

Disturbing is relative. I find it more disturbing to send black kids to schools named after Stonewall Jackson than to rename the schools. I find it more disturbing that people are so passionate about the preservation of tributes erected decades after the Civil War was fought that they will show up armed to the teeth to "protect" them.

Book burning is honestly not a far cry at this point, though with digital media it certainly becomes futile. Just because we don't like our sordid past, doesn't meant we have the right to erase it to coddle a selective group of people. It's just as good as sweeping the dirt under the rug imo.

Book burning is nowhere on the radar, stop with the melodramatic slippery slope .

You said it yourself, with digital media these ugly aspects of our history will never be forgotten.

[boutons_deux]

America’s Top Neo-Nazi Website Just Ordered Its Fans To Harass Funeral Of Heather Heyer


https://twitter.com/LauraLoomer/stat...16115935133696

[midnightpulp]

It still sets a disturbing trend of destroy whatever offends or might offend future generations. Book burning is honestly not a far cry at this point, though with digital media it certainly becomes futile. Just because we don't like our sordid past, doesn't meant we have the right to erase it to coddle a selective group of people. It's just as good as sweeping the dirt under the rug imo.

Those monuments are in public spaces, "celebrating" people who were once enemies of the United States. I doubt you'd be okay with a Santa Ana statue in San Antonio?

I'm not necessarily personally offended, but I think it's an insult to the men who died fighting the confederacy, along with being something of a racist symbol.

Now if a redneck wants to erect a statue of Lee on his front lawn, fine by me. That's his right. But a certain level of decorum should be met when considering what to display on public property.

I understand your concerns, but a confederate monument is a different animal than a nativity scene (SJWs who waste time and energy protesting those are as bat as alt-right goons).

[SnakeBoy]

How does one join antifa? I would join blm(black lives matter) but the gays and tranny's took it over

I see some room for improvement for antifa and think I have a lot to offer their organization.

I got connections and can get you in. Just give me a list of your qualifications.

[boutons_deux]

(some of) Congress Just Demanded That Trump Fire All Of His White Supremacist Advisers

In the wake of the deadly violence in Charlottesville, Virginia over the weekend, caucuses representing four minority groups in the House of Representatives have sent a letter to President Trump

calling for the sacking of

White House Chief Strategist Steve Bannon,
Senior Policy Advisor Stephen Miller and
Deputy Assistant to the President Sebastian Gorka.

The caucus group’s representing African Americans, Asians, Hispanics and progressives wrote that the ongoing presence in his administration of those three is emboldening a resurgent white supremacist movement in the U.S.

http://washingtonjournal.com/2017/08...cist-advisers/

[CosmicCowboy]

Snowflake ISIS imitators on a rampage to destroy historical monuments.

[AaronY]

The Teddy Roosevelt protest is so ing re ed. Unreal

[Spurminator]

The Teddy Roosevelt protest is so ing re ed. Unreal

Skeptical about that one.

[apalisoc_9]

Everytime they play soccer

The idea that Christianity is a "White" Religion stems from the Cruzzades against the Muslims during which the Europeans had to depitc Jesus as a White Guy to imporve Morale.

Your average White "christian" might hate it, but the truth of the matter is that Jesus is much closer ethnically to Mohammad and Ahmad.

of course you can always go to Stormfront and read their "research" Findings how Abraham who lived in modern day Arabia is actually white, or how Moses who lived in Brown/black egypt and parts of Arabia is white and how Jesus who lived in Greater Israel ( Modern day Levant like Syria, Israel, Palestine, Jordan is actually white..

But look at all the whites in Israel

95% of Whites in Israel are Europeans who migrated to Israel in the 1940s..

[apalisoc_9]

Those monuments are in public spaces, "celebrating" people who were once enemies of the United States. I doubt you'd be okay with a Santa Ana statue in San Antonio?

I'm not necessarily personally offended, but I think it's an insult to the men who died fighting the confederacy, along with being something of a racist symbol.

Now if a redneck wants to erect a statue of Lee on his front lawn, fine by me. That's his right. But a certain level of decorum should be met when considering what to display on public property.

I understand your concerns, but a confederate monument is a different animal than a nativity scene (SJWs who waste time and energy protesting those are as bat as alt-right goons).

Boggles my mind really.

The US wouldn't exist today if the Confederacy won..

How is that suppose to be "American"

[midnightpulp]

Snowflake ISIS imitators on a rampage to destroy historical monuments.

What's historical about an 80 year old statue cast in pot metal (see the way that piece of just folded when brought down )?

[midnightpulp]

Boggles my mind really.

The US wouldn't exist today if the Confederacy won..

How is that suppose to be "American"

They don't think. As much as I give Mexicans the business, the confederacy would've been given new life by the French if they won the battle at Puebla.

Probably why the deep south hates mexicans so much.

[DarrinS]

If they go full Taliban on this one, they get 4 for 1

[Spurminator]

It's pretty symptomatic of a weak argument that the Pro Monument contingent has to basically make up targets for removal that haven't ever been discussed.

[hater]

Snowflake ISIS imitators on a rampage to destroy historical monuments.

Listened to Rush today eh?

Its one of the most re ed thing Rush has said tbqh

[ducks]

President Donald Trump says the groups protesting against white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia, were "also very violent."

Trump is calling those protesters the "alt-left." He said Tuesday afternoon during a press conference in New York City that there is "blame on both sides" after the deadly violence over the weekend.



Trump said some of the facts about the deadly violence in Charlottesville still aren't known.

















TRUMP RIGHT !

[hater]

Has Thread killed himself yet?

Trump is basically on his knees telling Libs he will kiss them if they forgive him

Pathetic