Whatevs. I’m already on record saying performance artists are probably not Nazis.
Mostly I just wanted to say the ironing.
I’m pretty sure it’s a much larger number than I would like.
Everyone is scrambling to distance themselves from these idiots.
“Tiki torch company: We have nothing to do with white nationalism”
Oh, so the best common descriptor of those people would still be “Trump Supporters”? So everything I said still holds? Well then, great nitpick; good to see you reserving your pedantry for something substantive.
63 million people in this country voted for Trump. I’m curious as to what conclusion we’re supposed to draw from the fact that among them are an infinitesimal number of Nazi sympathizers.
Richard Spencer had to hold a press conference in his apartment because no hotel in DC would rent him a space.
I don’t think this “let the free market decide who to deny service to” idea of theirs is gonna work out the way they were hoping it would.
I’m starting to think that our system really may be strong enough to survive the current assault on it. A president who lost the popular vote is on the ropes in less than a year. His agenda is faltering badly. And the most dangerous and fanatical part of his base may be ruined socially and financially.
Yeah, everything is going to be okay. Odds are this whole protest-murder-thing was just filming for the new season of Curb Your Enthusiasm.
It appears that Evil Economist would like us to conclude that “Trump supporters are despicable”. It does seem like he’s painting with an awfully broad brush.
Indeed!
A video I think would well be worth people’s time to watch. VICE News got a reporter (who has my deepest sympathies) in the middle of some of the groups participating in the “Unite the Right” demonstration and allowed them to speak for themselves. I believe some of their statements cross the line into incitement, which is not protected as free speech.
Charlottesville: Race and Terror (WARNING: Graphic footage of the hit-and-run).
Trump supporters are despicable. He showed us during the campaign that he was an ignorant, narcissistic, sociopathic racist with no moral compass, and he’s consistently proven that every day he’s been in office. To vote for him, let alone continue supporting him at this point, is incompatible with any claim of being a good American, a patriot, or a decent human being.
I don’t think it’s an “infinitesimal number”. 3% of the 2016 voters in a state (Louisiana) voted for Senate for someone best known for (and very well known in that state – my home state) unrepentant white supremacism (David Duke). If we can roughly extrapolate that to the whole country, then that’s millions of people.
Well, that’s telling…
The more important issue IMHO is the quality of the support of the racists, not necessarily the count of how many racists provide their support in relation to others.
Let’s put the shoe on the other foot: if, during the 2012 presidential campaign, Al Qaeda came out strongly in support of Obama, and in particular lauded his national security policies with great enthusiasm, we all know what would have happened. Opponents of Obama would have LOST THEIR FUCKING MINDS regardless of whether Ayman al-Zawahri could vote in the election or not. If an Obama supporter bothered to say that it is just a very, very tiny number of Al Qaeda sympathizers who could actually vote in the election, would that ease your concerns? Of course not! The full-throated endorsement of Obama’s policies by the worst kind of people would have had a major impact on Americans generally, causing them to rethink whether those policies, and that candidate, is good for America.
Well, now we have a President that white racists of all stripes are fawning over, because of his nativist speeches and general views of the United States and its people. This ought to cause people to pause and think about whether those policies are good, seeing as how they are embraced so enthusiastically by racist fucktards. That you two, and others, seem so intent on seeing white nationalists’ support of Trump as being attack on your own characters shows that you are paying attention to absolutely the wrong aspect of the question. Not everything is about you, ya know.
Nazis and gaping chest wounds have that in common. In either case, any number greater than zero is much larger than I would like.
The Right controls American power overwhelmingly right now. All branches of the federal government and more states than any time in decades.
And yet, the animating emotion coming from the the Right now is grievance. Fear that their way of life is being threatened by multiculturalism. You watch Fox News and it’s all about how the Right is abused on college campuses and cultural grievances about transgender people and Muslims. “Don’t replace us!” isn’t just being chanted by white supremacists. It is really quite widespread. And we see it all over the SDMB too.
I’m curious whether conservatives agree with that assessment, and if so, how they explain it given their complete control over all levers of power.
You say it’s all branches of the federal government; but isn’t the idea that, while Alito and Thomas and Roberts and Gorsuch are considered pretty reliable, Kennedy is kind of a wild-card tiebreaker who often makes all the difference when Kagan and Breyer and Ginsburg and Sotomayor need a 5-4 decision?
In which case, they’re not there yet, but are maybe one octogenarian away?
“Popular video game chat service announces ban on white supremacist users”
You could make the same argument about Sen. John McCain. Or about the Pentagon.
I’m not saying the alt-right controls every branch of government. But Republicans certainly do.