# What good does it to be a part of a protest on inauguration day? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [January 18, 2017, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-good-does-it-to-be-a-part-of-a-protest-on-inauguration-day/777463 "2017-01-18T12:46:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-good-does-it-to-be-a-part-of-a-protest-on-inauguration-day/777463/141 "2017-01-20T20:13:27Z")
> [@HurricaneDitka](#): > > I personally know several black people that are not offended by the Confederate flag. I don’t know any of the ones on the Google Image page I sent you. According to [polling in 2015](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kathleen-weldon/public-opinion-on-the-confederate_b_7796458.html), 17% of black Americans see the Confederate flag as a symbol of Southern pride, while 72% see it as a symbol of racism. That majority opinion seems entirely reasonable to me, considering that the Confederate flag returned to prominence in the mid 20th century as a symbol of resistance to integration and Civil Rights, not for “Southern pride”. Considering that history, and considering the overwhelming majority opinion of black Americans, anyone who flies or defends the Confederate flag is either a racist, massively ignorant of racism, or entirely unconcerned by racism. The first and last are essentially the same thing, in my mind – knowledge of racism but no concern about it is pretty much the same thing as racism – while the ignorance one is inexcusable for a news organization. So yes, that headline from Breitbart can very reasonably be characterized as racist. ---
**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-good-does-it-to-be-a-part-of-a-protest-on-inauguration-day/777463/142 "2017-01-20T20:31:15Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Did you notice Dylann Roof as one of your supportive images? Yes, that is a Confederate flag, but he isn’t black. For starters. > > You google vomited and splashed it on the page, without even checking it out, didn’t you? Yes, I looked at. I’m aware that not all of the people on the page are black. Your original question was: > [@elucidator](#): > > Ever see a black man wearing Confederate regalia and symbolism? Ever wonder why not? By giving you the link, now we can both say we have seen “a black man wearing Confederate regalia and symbolism”. I didn’t claim that every person on the page met that criteria, but it was an easy way to show you that there are more than one out there. You asked a question, I answered. Why is this confusing to you? ---
**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-good-does-it-to-be-a-part-of-a-protest-on-inauguration-day/777463/143 "2017-01-20T20:39:45Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > According to [polling in 2015](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kathleen-weldon/public-opinion-on-the-confederate_b_7796458.html), 17% of black Americans see the Confederate flag as a symbol of Southern pride, while 72% see it as a symbol of racism. That majority opinion seems entirely reasonable to me, considering that the Confederate flag returned to prominence in the mid 20th century as a symbol of resistance to integration and Civil Rights, not for “Southern pride”. Considering that history, and considering the overwhelming majority opinion of black Americans, anyone who flies or defends the Confederate flag is either a racist, massively ignorant of racism, or entirely unconcerned by racism. The first and last are essentially the same thing, in my mind – knowledge of racism but no concern about it is pretty much the same thing as racism – while the ignorance one is inexcusable for a news organization. > > So yes, that headline from Breitbart can very reasonably be characterized as racist. So your contention is that Steve Bannon is “a prominent white supremacist”, and as evidence we have … drumroll … one headline that his website posted that takes the same position as 17% of black Americans that the Confederate flag is “as a symbol of Southern pride”, or in Breitbart’s wording “proclaims a glorious heritage”? That’s it? That’s about the weakest-supported argument I could conceive. Ravenman said way back on page 1 that Breitbart “published an array of racist trash”. Got that? An _array_! Sounds like it’d be super-easy to find a whole bunch of “racist trash” they’ve published, but you guys haven’t managed to do that. You’ve got one headline that doesn’t even say anything about white supremacy, or race at all. I’m disappointed in you. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-good-does-it-to-be-a-part-of-a-protest-on-inauguration-day/777463/144 "2017-01-20T21:10:26Z")
> [@HurricaneDitka](#): > > Ravenman said way back on page 1 that Breitbart “published an array of racist trash”. Got that? An _array_! Sounds like it’d be super-easy to find a whole bunch of “racist trash” they’ve published, but you guys haven’t managed to do that. You’ve got one headline that doesn’t even say anything about white supremacy, or race at all. I’m disappointed in you. You are only proposing that if it is not in that headline that then it is OK. But there are examples of that go over the heads of the Republicans that still think they are not getting into bed with the racists of the alt-right. > **[White supremacist Christmas! Right-wing media spent the holiday snuggling up...](https://www.salon.com/2016/12/28/white-supremacist-christmas-right-wing-media-spent-the-holiday-snuggling-up-to-overt-racism/)** > > Fox News and Breitbart spent the holiday weekend sliding outrageous white supremacist ideas into the mainstream > [@](#): > > On Christmas Eve, a leftist political theory scholar at Drexel named George Ciccariello-Maher sent out a now-legendary tweet saying, “All I Want for Christmas is White Genocide.” He was clearly joking, tweaking the noses of white supremacists who have developed this paranoid belief that there is such a thing, but Warner Todd Huston at Breitbart pretended to take Ciccariello-Maher seriously, writing, “The professor’s Twitter feed is filled with hateful, obnoxious messages, anti-Americanism, slams of President Donald Trump, attacks on Jews, as well as pro-Black Lives Matter and pro-communist sloganeering.” > > That Brietbart article was a clever way to soften up the larger conservative audience to this white supremacist idea. By pretending this joke was a serious call for killing off white people, Huston can imply that “white genocide” is real. Propping up a standard villain — a left-wing academic — and making it about “political correctness” helps ease the audience into buying into a narrative that previously only existed in fringe far-right circles that openly embrace racism. > > This is how white supremacists operate: They tell stories about how white Christians are supposedly under assault from Jews and people of color, which in turn allows them to justify their racist views as a form of self-protection. Now those narratives are getting louder in mainstream conservative spaces. > > … > > This paranoia is being deliberately stoked by Trump and his team. When some journalists criticized Trump’s incoming White House chief of staff, Reince Preibus, for a Christmas press release that seemingly equated Trump and Jesus Christ by saying, “this Christmas heralds a time to celebrate the good news of a new King,” Republican spokesman Sean Spicer pretended the critics were attacking Christianity. > > This reaction echoed a previous Trump press release that characterized the Christmas market attack in Berlin as a direct assault on Christians. As with the “white genocide” arguments, the purpose is to portray white Christians as an oppressed group and to argue that racist attitudes and actions can be justified as self-defense. > > Again, none of this should be a surprise. Of course elevating an overt racist to the White House makes other racists feel that they have public support to come out and share their ugly views with the world. Unfortunately, there’s every reason to believe that Fox News and Breitbart will continue down this path, so long as they continue to make political gains from wallowing in ever-bolder racist rhetoric. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-good-does-it-to-be-a-part-of-a-protest-on-inauguration-day/777463/145 "2017-01-20T21:12:48Z")
Just to be clear - are you saying Brietbart isn’t racist at all, or are you just asking us to prove it? You understand that I have little motivation to research the insipid stuff they publish because you have already tipped your hand, also on page one. You preemptively claimed that any racist articles we find are likely a small percentage of their tota, which will be insufficient to label them as running racist articles. You then went on an extended hijack that finding even one such article on CNN immunizes Breitbart from responsibility for their stories. The question of this thread isn’t really, why haven’t we convinced you of something? It is, why do we bother talking to you about this when you’ve clearly laid out your plan to reject any evidence offered? ---
**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-good-does-it-to-be-a-part-of-a-protest-on-inauguration-day/777463/146 "2017-01-20T21:13:40Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > You are only proposing that if it is not in that headline that then it is OK. But there are examples of that go over the heads of the Republicans that still think they are not getting into bed with the racists of the alt-right. > > [http://www.salon.com/2016/12/28/white-supremacist-christmas-right-wing-media-spent-the-holiday-snuggling-up-to-overt-racism/](http://www.salon.com/2016/12/28/white-supremacist-christmas-right-wing-media-spent-the-holiday-snuggling-up-to-overt-racism/) I can’t find the link to the Breitbart article that (I think) you’re saying is racist. Could you please post it here? ---
**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-good-does-it-to-be-a-part-of-a-protest-on-inauguration-day/777463/147 "2017-01-20T21:16:14Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > Just to be clear - are you saying Brietbart isn’t racist at all, or are you just asking us to prove it? The latter. You said that Breitbart “published an array of racist trash”, but you didn’t provide any evidence of that. Could you do that now please? ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-good-does-it-to-be-a-part-of-a-protest-on-inauguration-day/777463/148 "2017-01-20T21:21:12Z")
What’s the point? As I’ve said, you’ve already said that just because 1% of a news site’s articles may be racist, does not make it a racist website. Why should I lift a finger if you’re already going to dismiss anything anyone provides? It’s a waste of everyone’s time. ---
**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-good-does-it-to-be-a-part-of-a-protest-on-inauguration-day/777463/149 "2017-01-20T21:21:47Z")
> [@HurricaneDitka](#): > > I can’t find the link to the Breitbart article that (I think) you’re saying is racist. Could you please post it here? I found it here: [http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/12/25/drexel-univ-professors-christmas-wish-want-christmas-white-genocide/](http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/12/25/drexel-univ-professors-christmas-wish-want-christmas-white-genocide/) Certainly the things Ciccariello-Maher tweeted are despicable and racist, but I don’t think Breitbart reporting on it makes them a racist website. YMMV. ---
**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-good-does-it-to-be-a-part-of-a-protest-on-inauguration-day/777463/150 "2017-01-20T21:24:36Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > What’s the point? As I’ve said, you’ve already said that just because 1% of a news site’s articles may be racist, does not make it a racist website. Why should I lift a finger if you’re already going to dismiss anything anyone provides? It’s a waste of everyone’s time. I’m delighted to discuss any evidence provided. I don’t know if you noticed, but I was more than happy to talk about the allegedly racist content in DrCube’s list of headlines, and GIGObuster’s story. I find both of them largely lacking in “racism”, but I’m happy to discuss it. Just so we’re clear though: you made an assertion on page 1 that you appear to have no evidence of, and no desire to support with evidence. That’s fine, but don’t be surprised if people conclude that you are just posting unsubstantiated bullshit. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-good-does-it-to-be-a-part-of-a-protest-on-inauguration-day/777463/151 "2017-01-20T21:25:56Z")
> [@HurricaneDitka](#): > > …Why is this confusing to you? No worries, I’m not the least bit confused. ---
**Author:** ![Ravenman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ravenman/32/2929_2.png) [@Ravenman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ravenman)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-good-does-it-to-be-a-part-of-a-protest-on-inauguration-day/777463/152 "2017-01-20T21:26:34Z")
And don’t be surprised if your laments of “I’m just asking questions but nobody will play with me” rings hollow. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-good-does-it-to-be-a-part-of-a-protest-on-inauguration-day/777463/153 "2017-01-20T21:27:26Z")
> [@HurricaneDitka](#): > > I found it here: [http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/12/25/drexel-univ-professors-christmas-wish-want-christmas-white-genocide/](http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/12/25/drexel-univ-professors-christmas-wish-want-christmas-white-genocide/) > > Certainly the things Ciccariello-Maher tweeted are despicable and racist, but I don’t think Breitbart reporting on it makes them a racist website. YMMV. See post #144. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-good-does-it-to-be-a-part-of-a-protest-on-inauguration-day/777463/154 "2017-01-20T21:29:32Z")
> [@HurricaneDitka](#): > > I can’t find the link to the Breitbart article that (I think) you’re saying is racist. Could you please post it here? The explanation for why it is racist was in the article linked. Nowhere in the Breitbart article it is pointed out that “white genocide” is poppycock, but claimed that that the “left” (the professor) wanted it. (As it was pointed the Professor reported that it was a parody of what was found in many racist sites) The accusation in context was bullshit, the right and the alt-right have banged on that for a while, the projection here also did not include a debunking of the “White Genocide” idea, as it is clear that Breitbart knows its audience. [http://www.rawstory.com/2016/12/white-genocide-debunking-the-latest-breitbart-promoted-right-wing-racist-paranoid-buzzword/](http://www.rawstory.com/2016/12/white-genocide-debunking-the-latest-breitbart-promoted-right-wing-racist-paranoid-buzzword/) > [@](#): > > Following the Civil War, false claims about threats to the “white race” influenced the rising eugenics movement, Ross explained. This racist outlook was captured in the 1916 book, The Passing of the Great Race, by eugenicist Madison Grant, who was a personal friend of Theodore Roosevelt’s. Adolf Hitler was a fan of Grant’s and often quoted from his work. > > One can trace a direct line from the early 20th-century eugenicists to the racist movements of today. As the Southern Poverty Law Center points out, the Pioneer Fund was started in 1937 by Wickliffe Draper, a textile magnate, with the express purpose of pursuing “race betterment” by promoting the genes of people “deemed to be descended predominantly from white persons who settled in the original thirteen states prior to the adoption of the Constitution.” The SPLC notes, “The Pioneer Fund has supported many of the leading Anglo-American race scientists of the last several decades as well as anti-immigration groups such as the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR).” > > Trump’s choice for attorney general, Jeff Sessions, “regularly” attends events hosted by FAIR, according to the SPLC, which has classified the organization as a hate group since 2007. Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, a leader of Trump’s transition team, has served as counsel to FAIR’s legal arm, according to SPLC. “We can see how the Trump administration is only a stone’s throw from this kind of angsty rhetoric and the people who advance practical ‘solutions’ to these made-up problems,” said Ross. > > According to Ross, fears of white genocide re-emerged “after World War II, with the decolonization process and war of liberation in Algeria, all the way through the liberation of Zimbabwe, then called Rhodesia, as well as during the anti-apartheid movement.” > > Ross points to European intellectuals from the “European New Right” as playing a key role in “normalizing the notion of white genocide, arguing that an apartheid-style racial separation would preserve cultural integrity against ‘ethnocidal’ multi-culturalism and liberal democracy.” > > Lowndes emphasized that in the U.S. context, fear-mongering over the supposed decline of the white race picked up steam after the civil rights and black freedom movements. “There was a return of language about what is going to happen to white people if black people get full rights.” > > ‘They are the actual racists’ > > Sophie Bjork-James, a researcher at Vanderbilt University with expertise in conservative social movements, told AlterNet that the meme of “white genocide” has become an “increasingly popular frame” over the past 10 years, because “it frames whites as victims in a very emotionally resonant way. It seems like it is getting a much broader audience, which is scary because that can make it seem like it’s a legitimate term. Some mainstream media outlets will use the term without referencing its white supremacist origins.” ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-good-does-it-to-be-a-part-of-a-protest-on-inauguration-day/777463/155 "2017-01-20T21:40:46Z")
> [@HurricaneDitka](#): > > I found it here: [http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/12/25/drexel-univ-professors-christmas-wish-want-christmas-white-genocide/](http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/12/25/drexel-univ-professors-christmas-wish-want-christmas-white-genocide/) > > Certainly the things Ciccariello-Maher tweeted are despicable and racist, but I don’t think Breitbart reporting on it makes them a racist website. YMMV. But it clearly showed that you were wrong about not having other articles geared towards telling the bigots that they ‘were right all along about the leftists’. Race baiting and inflaming bigotry at its best. > **[Breitbart.com](https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Breitbart.com)** > > Breitbart.com is a far-right news site which operates out of the U.S., London, and Jerusalem, and Conservapedia's main source of information nowadays. Well, we say news; it's more like the unwanted love child of Fox News and /pol/ who serves as an... > [@](#): > > NAACP Freedom Fund dinner > > In June 2010, Breitbart posted clips from the NAACP Freedom Fund dinner which allegedly proved that USDA Georgia Director of Rural Development Shirley Sherrod was a racist. Per the post, Brown supposedly admitted to “racially discriminat[ing] against a white farmer.” The response from the crowd was “hardly the behavior of the group now holding itself up as the supreme judge of another group’s racial tolerance.”[35] Sherrod subsequently resigned, allegedly amidst pressure from the White House.[36] > > The only thing that could derail Breitbart’s narrative would be if the supposed targets of Sherrod’s bigotry came out and defended her. Which they did.[37] That might be because she did, in fact, help the farmers, among other white families. The clips Breitbart posted were selectively edited to remove the portion of Sherrod’s speech where she spoke of how her initial misapprehensions about helping whites led her to realize that race shouldn’t be an issue in her job — the exact opposite of what Breitbart had claimed.[38][39] > > As soon as the full tape went public, the Beltway came down on Breitbart, who went into spin control mode. He argued that his post was never about Sherrod, a fact betrayed by his own writings.[40] Meanwhile, some of the other Big X bloggers came to Breitbart’s defense, including one who seemed to be arguing that the White House and USDA were at fault for believing Breitbart.[41] > **[Trump not crazy enough for you? Here are five ideas spread by the site run by...](https://www.nydailynews.com/2016/08/17/trump-not-crazy-enough-for-you-here-are-five-ideas-spread-by-the-site-run-by-the-moguls-new-campaign-ceo/)** > > Before taking the reins Wednesday as CEO of the trainwrecked Donald Trump presidential campaign, Stephen Bannon helped run another off-the-rails organization: Breitbart News. As executive chairman … > [@](#): > > 1. Anti-gay Rhetoric > > In the same vein, Breitbart News has been accused of pushing anti-gay bigotry and has even given a mouthpiece to anti-LGBTQ hate group leaders like Austin Ruse. Ruse’s faction, the Catholic Family and Human Rights Institute (C-FAM), has been labeled a hate group by the SPLC. > > Ruse, for example, has written on Breitbart about hateful conspiracy theories surrounding the tragic death of Matthew Shepard, who was beaten and tortured in a brutal hate crime in Wyoming in 1998. > [@](#): > > 1. Anti-immigrant Rhetoric > > Breitbart has also been a premier source for anti-immigrant elements within the U.S. — like Trump himself — often manipulating or outright inventing numbers to fuel nationalist rhetoric. ---
**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-good-does-it-to-be-a-part-of-a-protest-on-inauguration-day/777463/156 "2017-01-20T21:41:37Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > The explanation for why it is racist was in the article linked. > > Nowhere in the Breitbart article it is pointed out that “white genocide” is poppycock, but claimed that that the “left” (the professor) wanted it. (As it was pointed the Professor reported that it was a parody of what was found in many racist sites) > > The accusation in context was bullshit, the right and the alt-right have banged on that for a while, the projection here also did not include a debunking of the “White Genocide” idea, as it is clear that Breitbart knows its audience. > > [http://www.rawstory.com/2016/12/white-genocide-debunking-the-latest-breitbart-promoted-right-wing-racist-paranoid-buzzword/](http://www.rawstory.com/2016/12/white-genocide-debunking-the-latest-breitbart-promoted-right-wing-racist-paranoid-buzzword/) Sorry, I promised myself not to take anything the SPLC says seriously until they correct [their report featuring the Greenville, Mississippi church fire](https://www.splcenter.org/20161129/ten-days-after-harassment-and-intimidation-aftermath-election). ---
**Author:** ![HurricaneDitka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/96bed5/32.png) [@HurricaneDitka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HurricaneDitka)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-good-does-it-to-be-a-part-of-a-protest-on-inauguration-day/777463/157 "2017-01-20T21:45:34Z")
> [@GIGObuster](#): > > But it clearly showed that you were wrong about not having other articles geared towards telling the bigots that they ‘were right all along about the leftists’. Race baiting and inflaming bigotry at its best. > > [Breitbart.com - RationalWiki](http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Breitbart.com) Thanks for sharing this one. I’ll look into it some more. It’s, to date, the best evidence I’ve seen presented. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-good-does-it-to-be-a-part-of-a-protest-on-inauguration-day/777463/158 "2017-01-20T22:39:45Z")
> [@HurricaneDitka](#): > > Sorry, I promised myself not to take anything the SPLC says seriously until they correct [their report featuring the Greenville, Mississippi church fire](https://www.splcenter.org/20161129/ten-days-after-harassment-and-intimidation-aftermath-election). So we shouldn’t take anything you say seriously until, say, you admit that it’s entirely reasonable to see the Confederate flag as a racist symbol, and anyone who flies it or defends it is either a racist or utterly ignorant of history? Or is this just an excuse to ignore an organization that you don’t like because they might have made a single mistake? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2017, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-good-does-it-to-be-a-part-of-a-protest-on-inauguration-day/777463/159 "2017-01-20T23:11:50Z")
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**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:** [January 20, 2017, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-good-does-it-to-be-a-part-of-a-protest-on-inauguration-day/777463/160 "2017-01-20T23:14:05Z")
> [@iiandyiiii](#): > > So we shouldn’t take anything you say seriously until, say, you admit that it’s entirely reasonable to see the Confederate flag as a racist symbol, and anyone who flies it or defends it is either a racist or utterly ignorant of history? > > Or is this just an excuse to ignore an organization that you don’t like because they might have made a single mistake? Reality isn’t quite so binary. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-good-does-it-to-be-a-part-of-a-protest-on-inauguration-day/777463.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-good-does-it-to-be-a-part-of-a-protest-on-inauguration-day/777463.md?page=9)