Racism is alive and well, Thanks Trump and his supporters!

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Trump adviser comments on mosque bombing by criticizing ‘the left’

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[Lois]

Trump adviser comments on mosque bombing by criticizing ‘the left’

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From: http://www.salon.com/2017/08/08/sebastian-gorka-defends-trumps-silence-on-minnesota-mosque-bombing-it-could-be-a-fake-hate-crime/

Gorka went on to say that “we’ve had a series of crimes committed, alleged hate-crimes, by right-wing individuals in the last six months that turned out to actually have been propagated by the left.” Gorka did not cite any specific instances to back up his claim. “When people fake hate crimes in the last six months with some regularity, it’s wise to find out what exactly is going on before you make statements, when they could turn out to be not who you are expecting.”

The real problem is that this incident does not fit the right-wing narrative, so it will be ignored.

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White nationalists ordered to leave Va. park before planned ‘Unite the Right’ rally

“Things were getting out of hand in the skirmishes between the alt-right and what I would describe as the outside agitators who wanted to encourage violence,” Toscano said, referring to the counterprotesters.

After police ordered everyone to vacate the park, columns of white nationalists marched out, carrying Confederate and Nazi flags as they headed down Market Street in an odd parade.

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[Athos_131]

White nationalists ordered to leave Va. park before planned ‘Unite the Right’ rally

“Things were getting out of hand in the skirmishes between the alt-right and what I would describe as the outside agitators who wanted to encourage violence,” Toscano said, referring to the counterprotesters.

After police ordered everyone to vacate the park, columns of white nationalists marched out, carrying Confederate and Nazi flags as they headed down Market Street in an odd parade.

#Resist

BREAKING NEWS, 2:33 p.m. At least six pedestrians were struck in a crash involving multiple vehicles in Charlottesville, according to the city government’s Twitter account. Matthew Korbon of Charlottesville said he was standing 10 feet from where the crash happened. He saw a car at high speed rear-end another car, then back up and plow through pedestrians. Charlottesville police said at least three vehicles were involved in the incident.

Video:

https://twitter.com/brennanmgilmore/status/896434516260212737

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After Violence, Cops Break Up ‘Unite the Right’ Hatefest Before It Even Starts

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[Athos_131]

Neo–Nazi Torch Rally Ends in Violence in Charlottesville

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[Athos_131]

Who are the alt-right leaders behind Virginia rally?

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[Athos_131]

STATE OF EMERGENCY DECLARED



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[Lois]

Make no mistake. The NAZI's and Klansmen were trying to provoke a race war.  They went to provoke violence.

For those that protested peacefully, I applaud them.

For those who played into the hands of the racists and offered up violence, shame on you.

[Lois]

STATE OF EMERGENCY DECLARED



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The title of this articles should be:

"Right-wing terrorist shows affinity with ISIS"

I mean this is what ISIS has been doing in Europe right? 

[Athos_131]

Things President Trump Has Condemned Other Than White Nationalists

here’s a brief and certainly incomplete collection of some of the various people, things, and entities that the president has spoken out against by name since taking office:

- Opinion polls that are unflattering to him

- Nordstrom

- The “fake news” media

- Specifically “CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, NYTIMES & WAPO”

- Meet the Press host Chuck Todd

- The New York Times

- The “fake” reporting on his campaign’s potential collusion with Russia

- The “witch hunt” that is the investigation into his campaign’s potential collusion with Russia

- #FraudNewsCNN

- Leakers

- Anonymous sources

- Senator Lisa Murkowski

- Senator John McCain

- Senator Lindsey Graham

- All Senate Republicans

- Congress

- Former attorney general Loretta Lynch

- His own attorney general, Jeff Sessions

- Acting FBI director Andrew McCabe

- Former FBI director James Comey

- The FBI

- “Fake tears” Cryin’ Chuck Schumer

- Nancy Pelosi

- Congressman Adam Schiff

- Senator Richard Blumenthal

- Barack Obama

- Hillary Clinton

- John Podesta

- Democratic congressional candidate Jon Ossoff

- Democrats in Congress

- Obamacare

- North Korea’s unsuccessful missiles

- North Korea

- Qatar

- China

- Mexico

- Canada

- London mayor Sadiq Khan

- “Crazy Joe Scarborough and dumb as a rock Mika”

- Morning Joe

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

- Snoop Dogg

- Mark Cuban

- “Celebs”

- Kathy Griffin

- The Ninth Circuit Court

- Transgender military service members

- Chelsea Manning

- M3-13 gang members

- The idea that his first 100 days in office were of symbolic significance

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[_priapism]

San Antonio Yesterday... practically my backyard... SCARY.  Didn't we fight a war 150 years ago to resolve this?

[IdleBoast]

Has the Charlottesville driver been labelled as a terrorist yet?

Or just a misguided lone gunman with psychological issues?

[Athos_131]

He's a straight white male.

That should tell you all you need to know.

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[Athos_131]

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[Athos_131]

Her Name Is Heather Heyer, and She Died Protesting Bigotry

Friends and relatives have identified the victim of Saturday’s domestic terrorist attack in Charlottesville as 32–year–old paralegal Heather Heyer, a native of Virginia.

According to initial news reports and social media accounts, Heyer was crossing the street to join an anti–racist protest when she was struck, along with dozens of others, by a sports car driven by 20–year–old James Alex Fields Jr., a white, radical, homegrown terrorist and Trump supporter from Maumee, OH.

Nineteen others were injured in the attack, many of them seriously. Fields was arrested and charged with one count of second–degree murder, three counts of malicious wounding, and one count of hit–and–run, according to The Washington Post, citing local police.

As of Sunday morning, a GoFundMe campaign established to support Heyer’s family had already exceeded its goal of raising $50,000. “Heather Heyer was murdered while protesting against hate. We are raising money to give to her family for anything that they may need,” the campaign states.

“She died doing what was right. My heart is broken, but I am forever proud of her,” Heyer’s mother said, according to the GoFundMe page.

On Heyer’s Facebook page, a profile photo posted last November states, “If you’re not outraged, you’re not paying attention.”

A separate GoFundMe campaign started by the co–chair of the Anchorage chapter of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) to help pay medical bills for those who were injured in the attack has so far raised over $100,000.

The attack occurred after the violent “Unite the Right” rally organized by neo–Nazi groups, members of the KKK, and other right–wing bigots was declared unlawful and broken up by police. The chaos and violence became so bad that Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe declared a state of emergency before the rally had even officially started.

As counterdemonstrators, including members of Black Lives Matter, DSA, and Antifa, prepared for a peaceful early–afternoon march through the streets of downtown Charlottesville, Fields, who was identified in photos published on social media as having participated in the white supremacist protest earlier in the day, drove his gray Dodge Challenger at a high speed into the crowd, striking dozens of people and several cars. The attack was captured on several videos shared online, and Fields, who fled the scene, was later caught and arrested.

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[Lois]

This is a picture of the white supremacists that showed up on Saturday.  They say a picture tells a thousand words.  Do they look like peaceful demonstrators?  Or do they look like people ready to start a war?

[Athos_131]

Enough of the Confederate statues, the alt-right heroes and Trump’s moral idiocy

Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D), who had declared a state of emergency in the morning, said at an evening news conference that he had a message for “all the white supremacists and the Nazis who came into Charlottesville today: Go home. You are not wanted in this great commonwealth.”

Not only McAuliffe but also many other politicians, both Democrats and Republicans, deplored the white nationalists and the mayhem they created, many of them telling the president he needed to denounce the hate-mongers. Ohio Gov. John Kasich (R) and Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Cory Gardner (R-Colo.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Rob Portman (R-Ohio) and Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) — who went a step further, calling for a Justice Department investigation of domestic terrorism — were among them. (Later Saturday evening, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced that the FBI and U.S. attorney would be investigating.) President Trump and Vice President Pence did not take their advice. Instead, they hid behind ambiguity and moral equivalence.

As news broke of a terrorist attack in Paris in November 2015, Trump immediately tweeted that he was praying for “the victims and hostages.”  Very soon after a shooting at an Orlando nightclub in June 2016, Trump tweeted that he was “right on radical Islamic terrorism.”

But he kept quiet Saturday morning as a protest led by white nationalists, who arrived with torches and chants in Charlottesville, on Friday night, turned violent. The cable networks that he usually watches showed footage of increasingly violent clashes between the white nationalists, some of whom looked like soldiers because they were so heavily armed, and the counterprotesters who showed up to challenge them.

When he belatedly spoke up, all he could muster was a vague tweet (“We ALL must be united & condemn all that hate stands for. There is no place for this kind of violence in America. Let’s come together as one!”) and then a despicable statement evincing the kind of moral equivalence Republicans used to denounce. (“We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides.” In case you missed that, he repeated, “On many sides.”) In yet another tone-deaf tweet, he declared, “Condolences to the family of the young woman killed today, and best regards to all of those injured, in Charlottesville, Virginia. So sad!” Sad?? His stilted, off-key lines betray his lack of empathy and failure to comprehend the gravity of the moment.

This is not the first time Trump has played footsie with white nationalists. During the campaign, he initially pleaded ignorance of David Duke’s racism in an interview with Jake Tapper. He played to white nationalists’ fears of illegal immigrants, demonized Mexicans, made racist accusations against a federal judge, falsely accused illegal immigrants of causing a crime wave, and refused to apologize for anti-Semitic imagery. Once in office, he hired alt-right darlings including Stephen K. Bannon (who bragged that he had made Breitbart a “platform for the alt-right”) and Sebastian Gorka. As president, he has channeled the white racists’ “blood and soil” concept of nationalism in his speeches and encouraged white, Christian, working-class Americans to think of themselves as victims and to see their religion as under attack — while he championed a Muslim travel ban. Pence on Saturday was no better, sending out a mealy-mouthed tweet: “Karen & I saddened by the loss of lives in Charlottesville. Thoughts & prayers w/ families of officers & young woman. Also w/ injured victims.”

Trump did not tell the white nationalists to go to Charlottesville or to commit violence. But his campaign and presidency have given white nationalists cover, oxygen and the dream of respectability. And now, when the moment calls for some semblance of presidential leadership and denunciation of racists, he cannot bring himself to criticize a group that is unarguably part of his base (not a majority, but among his strongest fans).

This kind of stomach-turning display of moral obtuseness is precisely what opponents of Trump predicted when they warned that he was unfit for the presidency. House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) on Saturday denounced white nationalism as a “scourge,” but he supported Trump even after Trump attacked a federal judge and Gold Star, Muslim parents. What did Ryan think America was getting?

The GOP supporting a racist candidate then being surprised the asshole doesn't speak out against racism is hypocrisy.

Fuck those people.

#Resist

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Alleged driver of car that plowed into Charlottesville crowd was a Nazi sympathizer, former teacher says

Former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, a Trump supporter who was in Charlottesville on Saturday, quickly replied. “I would recommend you take a good look in the mirror & remember it was White Americans who put you in the presidency, not radical leftists,” he wrote.

Asked by a reporter in New Jersey whether he wanted the support of white nationalists, dozens of whom wore red Make America Great Again hats during the Charlottesville riots, Trump did not respond.

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[Lois]

Fuck Nazis: On The Events in Charlottesville and the Alt-Right in General
by Ikonoclast

Let me be unambiguous: If the events in Charlottesville inspire in you anything but revulsion, horror, and rage at the resurgence of open white supremacy and at the vicious behavior and ideology of those marching; if your initial - or worse, your considered - response is ANYTHING resembling "Well the violence exists on all sides," you need to take a hard look inside and start unfucking yourself right now.

If you SUPPORT the resurgent American Nazi movement that tries to rebrand itself as the "Alt-Right," if you are the sort of human scum that thinks white supremacy and "ethnic purity" are noble, just, or really anything but hideous, vile garbage; if you fantasize about the day when your "Revolution" will restore America to an imaginary, gloriously white past, know this:

We are not friends.

We are not family.

We are not on the same side of this war.

I will stand between you and the people you seek to harm; I will fight and, if necessary, I will die in their defense. I will not stand idly by while you dismantle my country. I will not be silent, or sedentary, while you rob them of theirs.

Fuck fascism.

Fuck racism.

Fuck bigotry.

Fuck hate.

Fuck the alt-right.

Fuck white supremacy.

Fuck Nazis.

And if you think there is room for nuance here, if you find fight talk and a few dirty words more offensive than the fact that a bunch of honest-to-Christ Nazis just marched in Charlottesville, and a counter-protester died in an attack by one of their supporters?

Fuck you too.

I am out of patience for milquetoast responses to evil. This is not the time to sip tea, lift our pinkies, and invite these VERMIN for a fireside chat; it is time to stand up, get in their faces, and make clear that they do not represent us, that they do not speak for us, that their ideas are abhorrent and wrong, and that we - yeah, WE, fellow white people - will not let them harm people of color or those whose religious beliefs, ethnic background, sexual orientation or gender identity make them a minority.

Stand up, or get the fuck out. If you can't summon the courage to denounce NAZIS, you're not worth my goddamn time. You're not worth my acknowledgment or respect.