I'm almost speechless and at the same time, almost the opposite. I'll try to keep it brief.
"Alt-right" is a chicken-shit euphemism. Call them what they are: neo-Nazi, white supremacist, racist, anti-Semitic low-life scum.
This is Trump's fault. Yes, it is and you know it. His campaign was nothing but racist dog whistles and incitements to violence. When he said "Make America Great Again," this is what they heard. His improbable election gave license to every hateful, bottom-feeding moron out there. David Duke said so.
Unlike Virginia officials who spoke eloquently and directly from their hearts, our fake president needed someone to tell him what to say. His insincere recitation of words written by someone else fell woefully short of the mark. Blaming the violence "on many sides, on many sides" is just a form of granting permission and giving cover to these Nazi assholes. And no amount of too-late tweets from daughter-wife Ivanka can change this.
There is no room in any administration for these sort of deplorable people. Steve Bannon, Stephen Miller, Sebastian Gorka and Jefferson Beauregard Sessions must go. Now.
There is no place in our society for those who think and act like this, nor is there any room for those who tolerate it in others or try to "explain" it into a warped normalcy. It is/they are abnormal. They must be called out, denounced, shunned and marginalized at every turn. If that sounds like bleeding-heart political correctness to you, then you are one of them, you are the problem.
I'm deeply embarrassed to learn that the murderous car driver is from Maumee, Ohio. Hate knows no boundaries.
These neo Nazis would have never qualified for the WWII German Army or the SS. As perverse as their regime was those recruits were kick ass combatants. These pot bellied neos waving neo swastikas would most likely have ended up in Sonnenstein.
ReplyDeleteThe left, apparently with a lot of time to waste don't spend it on reading. Lee was not a slave holder nor a sessionist, met with Lincoln not too log before the outbreak, to discuss Lee leading the Federal Army. While slavery became a major issue it was not why most rebels fought. Most rebels did not even know a slave holder.
Wow. When you begin by complimenting the Nazis for being "kick-ass combatants," there's nowhere to go but down. Sonnenstein? Desert Male sure does know his Nazis!
DeleteSonnenstein was a German castle which became the "National Socialist Killing Institution" -- a euthanasia facility where the Nazis murdered 15,000 mentally disturbed people and POW's.
Don't what Desert Male has been reading about the Civil War. Alternative facts, I suspect. His second paragraph is hogwash.
Robert E. Lee did indeed own slaves, both before and well into the war.
Lee did not favor secession until Virginia voted for it. Then he promptly joined the Confederacy and fought to defeat the Union.
Lee did not "meet" with Lincoln to "discuss" commanding the Union army. Lincoln did offer it and Lee turned it down, more loyal to Virginia than to the USA.
Slavery did not "become" an issue, slavery was the issue. It's the reason the south left the Union, as expressed clearly in each state's declaration of secession. The average rebel soldier, not a rich plantation owner but a poor country boy, may not have understood it, but he was most definitely fighting to preserve slavery.
True, most Southern whites did not "own" slaves, but slavery was pervasive throughout the South, not only on large plantations but on smaller farms, in urban areas, in businesses and in homes. Slaves were often rented out to others by their owners, short-term or long-term. Slave "holders" were everywhere. To claim that most "did not even know a slave holder" is specious.