Yeah, they are here in DC also. They make next to no sense, but seem to be bigoted about various things. They also have no power whatsoever, and do nothing other than make noise.
It’s just like the Westboro Baptist Church. They don’t actually commit any physical gay-bashing (or anything similar) themselves, so they can be mocked or ignored. In contrast, when Klan, Neo-Nazi, and other far-Right groups show up, leftist antifascists (Antifa!!) show up ready to rumble. Of course, the cops protect the racists. There’s a video of me in one such rumble, right in front of the White House. The Secret Service grabbed one of our relatively few black (or at least part-black) members from the pavement where he lay bleeding, and arrested him, naturally.
It appears some people are claiming that, because of its history of institutional oppression, white supremacy is worse than black supremacy.
It’s obvious that white supremacy organizations are worse because of their history, but I don’t see how the simple ideology of racial superiority is preferable given the particular “chosen” race.
Really, this is all a useless side-track. I don’t find it at all plausible that Scalise didn’t know who these people were or what they stood for.
I haven’t seen anyone on this thread make that claim. I certainly don’t.
Certain conservative commentators have strongly implied that Al Sharpton and his National Action Network, and likewise Jeremiah Wright, are entities comparably vile to David Duke and his various organizations. Their arguments are meant to suggest that liberals cannot call for Scalise to resign/lose his whip position/be censured etc. without exposing themselves to charges of hypocrisy for giving Obama a pass on associating with Al Sharpton etc. I maintain that this is a false equivalence.
Unless you have a cite showing otherwise, Al Sharpton and Jeremiah Wright are not “black supremacists” in the sense of espousing a corresponding black version of white supremacy. So, there is no equivalence between speaking to the National Action Network vs speaking to the European-American Unity and Rights Organization.
You haven’t successfully shown that Sharpton is a black supremacist, but even if you did, that would not demonstrate that black supremacism is more common than white supremacism.
Lots of reasons. In the past, it was racism. Today, IMO, it is the black culture of victim mentality and discouragement of achievement.
But claiming that white racism against blacks is thriving today is ludicrous. It is shunned and taboo. Black racism against whites is thriving today, though, and is basically mainstream.
Ah, I figured as much. Perhaps you should stop listening to your opinions, and find the facts from social scientists who study such things. Then perhaps you’d be less inclined to blame the victims.
Also, I really ought to be shocked by your statement that white racism against blacks is not thriving, but no, I’m all too aware of the prevalence of that denial.
The drug war? The prison-industrial complex? Police brutality?
No, because I don’t share your assumption that Sharpton and Wright are black supremacists. But unless you say differently, I’ll take this as an admission that you don’t believe that black supremacism is more common than white supremacism.
How so? Whites and blacks use drugs at about the same rate, but policing overwhelmingly focuses on communities of color, with dire consequences for said communities. Then there are the perverse incentives built into the prison system, and thus that influences the behaviors of militarized policing, which focuses disproportionately on black and Latino communities.
How about the racially focused voter-suppression campaigns? How about the hysterical, unhinged reaction to a President who, not long ago, would be called a Rockefeller Republican? The ACA is basically Nixoncare/Dolecare/Romneycare/Heritage-Foundationcare, and yet, well, you know… don’t you?
Al Sharpton’s association with Obama (which has been overstated, at least as characterized by Rudy 9/11iani) could mean that black supremacism as practiced by Al Sharpton is thriving.
Or, it could be reflective of the fact that Sharpton is, in fact, not a black supremacist; and that, therefore, his association with Obama has no bearing on whether black supremacism is thriving.
It’s definitely bigoted against gay people (and perhaps Greeks), and stupid, but not supremacist, in my view.
Contrast to this: an example “straight out of white supremacists’ book”: “White people don’t need a law against rape, but if you fill this room up with your normal black bucks, you would, because niggers are basically primitive animals.”.