What is the use of trying to distinguish between sincerity and trolling, in this case? The whole course of events of the day is a pretty damned good indication that we ought to take them at their word. And - from my perspective - building the strongest resistance we can.
The word I’ve emphasized doesn’t mean what you think it does.
davidm
August 16, 2017, 10:02pm
603
Poor snowflake.
Here’s the VICE video:
Here he is sobbing about the arrest warrant:
davidm
August 16, 2017, 10:10pm
604
The editing period timed out on me. I wanted to add that his part in the VICE video starts around 2:20.
wonky
August 16, 2017, 11:16pm
605
It’s so fitting that Schadenfreude was originally a German word.
There was a protester (not an anti-protester) whose image got spread around a lot. Probably because of his awesome do.
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“I understand the photo has a very negative connotation. But I hope that the people sharing the photo are willing to listen that I’m not the angry racist they see in that photo.”
Cvjetanovic said that his role as a white nationalist is to “care for all people.”
Yeah, whatever.
Leaper
August 17, 2017, 7:32am
607
Is it not a German word anymore?
Smapti
August 17, 2017, 8:27am
608
You know who else thinks the monuments should come down?
Stonewall Jackson’s great-great-grandsons.
Last weekend, Charlottesville showed us unequivocally that Confederate statues offer pre-existing iconography for racists. The people who descended on Charlottesville last weekend were there to make a naked show of force for white supremacy. To them, the Robert E. Lee statue is a clear symbol of their hateful ideology. The Confederate statues on Monument Avenue are, too—especially Jackson, who faces north, supposedly as if to continue the fight.
That letter from the great, great grandsons was, uh, great. I had no idea that Stonewall’s sister was an abolitionist and never spoke to him again after he joined the confederacy.
wonky
August 17, 2017, 12:20pm
610
It’s now an English word in all its glory and mispronunciation!
I finally watched that VICE doc. Jesus. That guy had no remorse whatsoever that someone was killed.
davidm
August 18, 2017, 12:06am
614
Someone tarred and feathered a Jefferson Davis monument in Arizona.
Like many Confederate monuments, the Jefferson Davis monument in Arizona was erected long, long after the Civil War. Like many Confederate monuments, this one was erected by the Daughters of the Confederacy organization in 1943. It wasn’t the only...
Is there an explanation of the felony charges anywhere?
davidm
August 18, 2017, 12:13am
616
Here’s another article about it, but it really doesn’t go into any more detail.
It mentions caustic substances, so maybe he used something like pepper spray.
wonky
August 18, 2017, 12:16am
617
In the Vice piece, I think it was he who claimed to keep getting “maced.” Though I’ve never been maced, I think most people don’t just walk around putting milk on their heads if they are.
That’s why I was confused. Maybe it was this kind of deal.
wonky
August 18, 2017, 12:29am
619
That’s about the right level of intellect for him.
Yllaria
August 18, 2017, 12:34am
620
We mugged it fair and square. Or as fair as English gets.
