To think that we were told that we were over reacting when we said that he was a fascist who had surrounded himself with fascists and white supremacists. Eight months on he will not condemn fascist terrorist acts.
Yes it's always been there but this president has legitimised their views like none that have gone before. Racist opinions that were whispered among like minded folks are now the defacto manifesto of a party representing half the country. It is tragic.Very true mate, but what gets me is that there are those around who think this type of march is anything new. I lived in the states in the early 80's and worked with a couple of guys who called themselves survivalists, lived in the mountains, hated everyone, carried guns, fenced off their land, and hated 95% of the nation.
I have some great friends who are Americans but there are just as many who are out there.
Yes it's always been there but this president has legitimised their views like none that have gone before. Racist opinions that were whispered among like minded folks are now the defacto manifesto of a party representing half the country. It is tragic.
Yes it's always been there but this president has legitimised their views like none that have gone before. Racist opinions that were whispered among like minded folks are now the defacto manifesto of a party representing half the country. It is tragic.
There will always be the religious nuts of every denomination, but who listens to them really except the other religious nuts. For what it is worth I think that most religions will wither and die over time anyway. They are best left to their own devices.Its always been there mate as you say, the difference here is that Trump is probably the first leader who has the whole world tweeting his brick, and there are a lot of sad sacks who seem to spend most of their time doing just that. if you have a look you will find evidence of this sort of brick has been around for years ( below is just one instance), nothing new but as i said we now live in a world of those who can not get through a day without spending hours on Facebook and tacoter forwarding all this rubbish.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/spent-summer-americas-hate-preachers-9029598
for a large proportion of these scumbags tagging to a religion is how they justify the racist mindset they already have
often the excuse, very rarely the trigger
I see a sharks eyes. Lifeless and dead (I could be projecting hereLook closely at the faces of many of the people being publicly outed in the wake of the march.
Look into the eyes of the person arrested for murdering an innocent woman and injuring 19 others.
What do you see?
Trump is being disingenuous when he claims that this was always around, before him and before Obama. It was not. At least, not in its entirety.
The kid who murdered Heather Heyer is 20 years old. He bought his car using money from a trust fund set up in his name, and was drummed out of US Army basic training shortly after enlisting.
Peter Cvjetanovic, pictured screaming in anger while holding aloft a torch, is 20 years old. He studies politics and history at the University of Nevada.
James Allsup, speaker at the rally, is in his early twenties, and studies political science at the Washington State University.
The list goes on. Pete Tefft, James Colligan, Daniel Reardon, Ryan Martin, Jacob Dix - all names that are being exposed on Twitter in the aftermath of this march. All men in their early twenties, some barely boys, others slightly older.
I wrote a long analysis of 4chan here a long time ago - of 4chan, and of chan culture more broadly. About the essential nihilism and social alienation that befalls people who end up spending more and more time there, shaping and being shaped by chan culture, going from edginess to cope with a world which has no place for them to genuinely believing the things they say and think.
This is where these people come from. This is not something that went on before Donald Trump, and before Barack Obama - this is a very new, very dangerously accessible, very virulent form of ethnic nationalism and racial discord that came from places like 4chan. The backcountry racists protest in their own ways, and their racism is easily understood and easily distinguishable as uniquely American in its enduring hatred.
The jump from them to 'Blood and Soil', 'We Will Not Be Replaced', however....that comes from a different, more dangerous place. And I don't think anyone in this macaronic administration or in the hapless government yet realizes how dangerously accessible the thinking that comes from that place is to people like this.
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This is the emerging face of racism in America. Belittling it won't help anymore.
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