# Unite the Right Racist Scum **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 12, 2017, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unite-the-right-racist-scum/793471 "2017-08-12T22:19:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 27
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2017, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unite-the-right-racist-scum/793471/521 "2017-08-15T07:02:33Z")
> [@Morbo](#): > > Not religious, so normally don’t post something from a pastor, but… [Fixed link.](http://washingtonjournal.com/2017/08/12/christian-pastor-just-called-every-white-american-epic-response-virginia-rally/) ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2017, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unite-the-right-racist-scum/793471/522 "2017-08-15T07:29:26Z")
> [@Nava](#): > > [Fixed link.](http://washingtonjournal.com/2017/08/12/christian-pastor-just-called-every-white-american-epic-response-virginia-rally/) Thank you ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Crap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.crap/32/3131_2.png) [@Dr.Crap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Crap)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2017, 7:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unite-the-right-racist-scum/793471/523 "2017-08-15T07:37:45Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > That doesn’t mean each religious person follows their religion strictly. Thank you for noting that these confederates and nazis could possibly represent the radically liberal wings of their groups who want to do away with politically motivated violence. Not enough people think good like you. ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2017, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unite-the-right-racist-scum/793471/524 "2017-08-15T09:48:51Z")
Dear Leader, bless his heart, was able, days after the event and with the help of Sessions and Wray, to come out against mowing people down with an automobile: > [@](#): > > “To anyone who acted criminally in this weekend’s racist violence, you will be held fully accountable. Justice will be delivered,” said Mr. Trump, who had just concluded a meeting with Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Christopher A. Wray, the F.B.I. director. Trump’s budget, however, calls for cutting federal funding for groups fighting right-wing violence: > [@](#): > > But the Trump administration froze funding for the [Countering Violent Extremism] grants … > … the White House was considering retooling the program to focus more on radical Islamic extremism than on white supremacist groups. Trump also proposed _entirely eliminating the program_ in his 2018 budget request. (From a [TheHill.com](http://TheHill.com) article titled “Trump cuts funds to fight anti-right wing violence.” :eek: The article is about fighting right-wing violence, not fighting “anti-right-wing violence.”) ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2017, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unite-the-right-racist-scum/793471/525 "2017-08-15T18:46:30Z")
> [@Dr.Crap](#): > > Thank you for noting that these confederates and nazis could possibly represent the radically liberal wings of their groups who want to do away with politically motivated violence. Not enough people think good like you. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2017, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unite-the-right-racist-scum/793471/526 "2017-08-15T19:30:03Z")
There really isn’t any compromise with the Nazis. They want to kill their political opponents and large swaths of the population. We cannot have peaceful discussions with them or co-existence. So I’m kind of split by and troubled with tone policing people who oppose them, as there simply will be violence, by their very nature and ideology. ---
**Author:** ![octopus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/octopus/32/3716_2.png) [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2017, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unite-the-right-racist-scum/793471/527 "2017-08-15T19:41:06Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > There really isn’t any compromise with the Nazis. They want to kill their political opponents and large swaths of the population. We cannot have peaceful discussions with them or co-existence. > > So I’m kind of split by and troubled with tone policing people who oppose them, as there simply will be violence, by their very nature and ideology. Ok. Let the police handle it. Not a mob of radicals who are excited to have a fight. Bam. It’s that simple. If Nazi violence is unavoidable when they commit a crime arrest them! Now if you want to preemptively arrest people for future crimes or thought crimes you are free to think that. But I don’t it’s a good idea. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2017, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unite-the-right-racist-scum/793471/528 "2017-08-15T20:31:10Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > There really isn’t any compromise with the Nazis. They want to kill their political opponents and large swaths of the population. We cannot have peaceful discussions with them or co-existence. > > So I’m kind of split by and troubled with tone policing people who oppose them, as there simply will be violence, by their very nature and ideology. They want violence as long as they think they have the upper hand. It’s part of Nazism’s very soul. The “eternal struggle” needs an enemy (or more correctly a scapegoat). If they managed to eradicate one, they would then have to find another. And another. And another. Without end. _“War is the eternal form of higher human existence and states exist for war: they are the expression of the will to war.”_ So then, war is inevitable and is eternal. There must always be another “Other” to hate. Their chants of “Blood and Soil,” is a genuine historical Nazi slogan which held that ethnicity is based solely on blood descent and the territory one maintains - to the total exclusion of ALL other people. In the end, much like ISIS, everyone is “The Other”. Everyone is the enemy. There is no dialogue with them. They are a disease. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2017, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unite-the-right-racist-scum/793471/529 "2017-08-15T20:33:53Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > Ok. Let the police handle it. Not a mob of radicals who are excited to have a fight. Bam. It’s that simple. If Nazi violence is unavoidable when they commit a crime arrest them! > > Now if you want to preemptively arrest people for future crimes or thought crimes you are free to think that. But I don’t it’s a good idea. Evil wins when good people do nothing. You’re asking us to sit back and watch, and hope the police do something about it. No one said anything about arresting people for future crimes. I have no patience or tolerance for people who put words in my mouth so that they can attack their own straw man. Please do less of this. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2017, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unite-the-right-racist-scum/793471/530 "2017-08-15T20:42:18Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > Evil wins when good people do nothing. > > You’re asking us to sit back and watch, and hope the police do something about it. > > No one said anything about arresting people for future crimes. I have no patience or tolerance for people who put words in my mouth so that they can attack their own straw man. Please do less of this. History lesson time. Germans tried to ignore them, laugh them off, let the police handle it. It didn’t work out so good for them. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2017, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unite-the-right-racist-scum/793471/531 "2017-08-15T20:43:49Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > Ok. Let the police handle it. The people you’re defending ran down and beat Deandre Harris [right outside the police station](http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/charlottesville-deandre-harris-black-protester-white-supremacists-beat-metal-poles-neo-nazis-a7894916.html). The investigations into police inaction have yet to begin, but are likely to reveal some sympathizers in the ranks. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2017, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unite-the-right-racist-scum/793471/532 "2017-08-15T20:48:40Z")
> [@ElvisL1ves](#): > > The people you’re defending ran down and beat Deandre Harris [right outside the police station](http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/charlottesville-deandre-harris-black-protester-white-supremacists-beat-metal-poles-neo-nazis-a7894916.html). > > The investigations into police inaction have yet to begin, but are likely to reveal some sympathizers in the ranks. We’ve already seen various police officers post incredibly shitty things about that VEHICULAR HOMICIDE. They thought it was FUNNY. That guy Harris was clubbed was right near the police station. It’s a good thing there were no 12 YEAR OLDS WITH TOYS, or BABIES IN CRIBS THAT NEEDED A GRENADE TO THE FACE, no BROWN PEOPLE. Otherwise the cops would have feared for their lives and started shooting. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2017, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unite-the-right-racist-scum/793471/533 "2017-08-15T21:03:21Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > [They attacked first because they were defending themselves.](https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:FB50LbmeMKQJ:https://www.dailystormer.com/unitetheright-historic-event-for-the-ages/+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us) :dubious: Great. [Now the head twit is saying pretty much the same thing.](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/08/15/trump-again-blames-both-sides-in-charlottesville-says-some-counterprotesters-were-very-very-violent/?hpid=hp_no-name_no-name%3Apage%2Fbreaking-news-bar&utm_term=.b7837df49d2a) ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2017, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unite-the-right-racist-scum/793471/534 "2017-08-15T21:05:19Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > Great. [Now the head twit is saying pretty much the same thing.](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/08/15/trump-again-blames-both-sides-in-charlottesville-says-some-counterprotesters-were-very-very-violent/?hpid=hp_no-name_no-name%3Apage%2Fbreaking-news-bar&utm_term=.b7837df49d2a) He disgusts me. He is a filthy disgusting maggot. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2017, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unite-the-right-racist-scum/793471/535 "2017-08-15T21:12:03Z")
Welp. Thread over. Cheeto just united them! Can’t wait for the Google protests scheduled for this weekend. We’ll be seeing even more of the help-I’m-white-male-and-I’m-being-opressed shitheads show up. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2017, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unite-the-right-racist-scum/793471/536 "2017-08-15T21:33:56Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > Great. [Now the head twit is saying pretty much the same thing.](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2017/08/15/trump-again-blames-both-sides-in-charlottesville-says-some-counterprotesters-were-very-very-violent/?hpid=hp_no-name_no-name%3Apage%2Fbreaking-news-bar&utm_term=.b7837df49d2a) What a fucking piece of shit. ---
**Author:** ![Okrahoma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90db22/32.png) [@Okrahoma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Okrahoma)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2017, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unite-the-right-racist-scum/793471/537 "2017-08-15T21:35:57Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > What a fucking piece of shit. [https://twitter.com/SherylNYT/status/896575560650035200](https://twitter.com/SherylNYT/status/896575560650035200) ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2017, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unite-the-right-racist-scum/793471/538 "2017-08-15T21:38:28Z")
> [@Okrahoma](#): > > [x.com](https://twitter.com/SherylNYT/status/896575560650035200) Dude, she wasn’t putting up the batshit signal. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2017, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unite-the-right-racist-scum/793471/539 "2017-08-15T21:38:43Z")
> [@Okrahoma](#): > > [x.com](https://twitter.com/SherylNYT/status/896575560650035200) Don’t start nuffin, won’t be nuffin. Aren’t you trying to stay away from all the bad words down here, snowflake? ---
**Author:** ![wonky](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonky/32/393_2.png) [@wonky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonky)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2017, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unite-the-right-racist-scum/793471/540 "2017-08-15T21:42:22Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > What a fucking piece of shit. I’m sure his fans will just say this is a slip of the tongue: “Okay, what about the alt-left that came charging at us – excuse me – what about the alt-left that came charging at the, as you say, the alt right?” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unite-the-right-racist-scum/793471.md?page=26) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unite-the-right-racist-scum/793471.md?page=28)