Absolutely. And the right wing social media posts by these people just show that Antifa was planning far ahead. Just like Obama’s parents who put his birth announcement in the Honolulu paper so that no one would suspect he was really born in Kenya. These lefties play a long game.
“Real cops joined the protesters and busted some liberal heads.”
FTFY
I wonder why those on the right are so upset by the government prosecuting the Capitol rioters. Weren’t they all antifa? Seems to me that they should be cheering the government on and trying to get hundreds more arrested.
Support White Supremacy! Report the Antifa Capitol Rioters!
Objection! Presumes logical thinking not in evidence!
Fuck this lying ass MFer
Railing against racism is racist. Up is down, truth is lies.
Tim Scott is a fucking idiot.
Scott is both full of shit and an apparent moron, but “Uncle Tim” is still a semi-racist cheap shot. There are plenty of nasty things you can call him that don’t evoke his race.
Yeah, I can’t speak for others but that’s a line I’d rather not cross. I mean, to be honest, yeah, that epithet has probably crossed my mind, but it’s not a white person’s place to say it.
It doesn’t appear to have been white people who did say it, at least to start with. The Twitter reference to “Uncle Tim Scott” that AFAICT is most often cited as an example of this alleged “racism” is this one by an African-American pastor and NAACP president:
Anecdotes aren’t data, but that certainly dovetails with my own observation that the “Uncle Tom” epithet for Black people accused of complicity in anti-Black racism is much more commonly used by other Black people than anyone else.
Yeah, the epithet isn’t constructive, but the observation that Scott’s speech was basically “America isn’t racist and the Republican Party have chosen me, their token black friend, to tell you that” remains on point.
In other, more anecdotal news, I’ve noticed from the memes being circulated in social media that the right-wing, driven by QAnon, are going full Orwell lately. I’ve seen a couple of memes starting with “Anyone remember” followed by some blatantly false statements. They’re now actively working to rewrite people’s memories. Which is really fucking evil.
I guess we’ve always been at war with reality.
Can you post a couple of examples of this, please?
This has been making the rounds across the alt-right this week:
Needless to say, nobody remembers that because it didn’t happen.
I do not call Tim Scott Uncle Tom because I think that term is reserved for black people to use. But, given that white supremacy is at the heart and soul of the Republikkkan Party, I just don’t get how a black person can be Republican and not be an Uncle Tom.
One more: I can’t find the specific meme but there’s one about “Remember when Madam Heidi Fleiss had Chuck Schumer’s name in her red book as one of her high paying customers? Never forget, America!” . This is apparently straight out of QAnon.
Snopes points out that very very few of Fleiss’s clients have been outed (most notably Charlie Sheen) and that Schumer isn’t one of the few who has, so it’s hard to “remember” something that isn’t known and likely has no basis in fact. I suppose in theory he could have been a Fleiss client, but then so could, say, Trump and Giuliani. And I know where I’d place my bets there.
In other words, gaslighting. Which is a time-honored tactic of right wing authoritarians
I can understand a black conservative, even a black republican. There is room for internal debate about what it means to be Black, Asian, Latino, or any member of any other culture. What disturbed me about Scott’s speech is that he deliberately mentioned race and inserted his blackness into a debate that Biden or Democrats weren’t really even having on that occasion. His references to race were a non sequitur discussion, at least based on what I saw of Biden’s speech. He used his ‘rebuttal’ to basically jump in and turn himself into a political exhibit.
All Scott cares about is that his personal prospects are improved by GOP power.
It doesn’t matter what happens to other people. Other people are the crudely-painted backdrop to the shitty dinner theater play that is his life.
Scott is actually a pretty sharp politico. He’s deftly used strands of race, religion, and capitalism to build a formidable political identity. He confirms a fear that I’ve had for a while, which is that if Republicans could somehow kick their addiction to racism, they’d probably use religion and culture to dominate politics. They would crush liberalism if they could just redefine what American conservatism looks like.
You probably don’t remember the Bowling Green Massacre either.