ICYMI: This past weekend sunny, utopian Charlottesville, the home of Thomas Jefferson (who wrote the Declaration and was, you know, a nice slave owner), Bodos, Dave Matthews, Chris Long & Malcolm Brogdon, played host to a far less reputable group: rabid white supremacists. Organized by local, doughy jizz rag, Jason Kessler, Richard Spencer and the rest of the pasty, Macklemore haircut-sporting homies infested Central Virginia armed to to the teeth for, you guessed it, a "peaceful protest."
They kicked off the weekend at Home Goods, apparently, buying more tiki torches than a fraternity luau and marching straight onto the campus of UVA, blissfully unencumbered by mosquitoes. While chanting known Nazi slogans such as "blood and soil," and "you will not replace us," (which, tough break fam, yes we will. And good luck explaining this shit to your brown great-grandkids), they proceeded to surround a group of counter-protesters near the Thomas Jefferson statue and the event (shockingly, right?) became violent.
"Well the 'tolerant' left incited the violence. We weren't allowed to have a peaceful protest," moan the shit-head squad, brainlessly regurgitating whatever verbal diarrhea has most-recently erupted from human dumpster, Tomi Lahren.
Let's get something real fucking clear. If you're unable to separate violence against Nazis from being (and or sympathizing with), a Nazi, I urge you, PLEASE don't reproduce.
But this move is the Spider 2 Y Banana in the White Supremacist playbook.
1. Wrap a racist, homophobic, bigoted turd loosely in 1st Amendment first amendment freedoms, as any true "patriot" would.
2. Incite violence without necessarily being overly violent. You know, just carry fire through private property and chant Nazi slogans.
3. Appear frightened, confused, and persecuted when sane people retaliate
4. Cry oppression all over every social media channel (ever Periscope... yeah. Periscope), like a recently-dumped Kardashian
5. Shotgun Miller High Life & burn cross
And that's what gets people fucked up, including our prolapsed anus of a "president," who had the audacity to condemn hatred on "many sides."
"We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry, and violence, on many sides."Many sides?!
This isn't a fucking dodecahedron.
There are two sides: Racists... not racists.
Without spiraling down a Trump rabbit-hole, it is quickly worth noting that this is the dude who has shown a proclivity for denouncing a wide variety of things faster than a 14 year old virgin's first time in the sack. The fact that he can't be brought to speak out against white supremacy and domestic terrorism, because it is perpetrated by his voting bloc (as evidenced by David Duke, Andrew Anglin, and others), speaks volumes. Or just reinforces that we've been telling you folks for months.
"We are determined to take our country back. We're going to fulfill the promises of Donald Trump. That's what we believed in, that's why we voted for Donald Trump."1. "But he did speak out against it."
2. "It was implied, obviously."
3. "Other total dog shit excuse because I voted for Trump and want to absolve myself."
1. It took him three days. Three fucking days! To dunk the biggest moral alley-oop of his time in office.
2. OK, word, so, if this was a Muslim, or a brown person, you all wouldn't have been blowing up the Fox News phones for him to say "radical Islamic terrorism," or to stand up to, explicitly the minority "thugs" who perpetrated this violence.
3. If you voted for Trump, I don't have beef with you, yet. BUT YOU HAVE TO ACKNOWLEDGE YOUR ROLE IN THIS. Miss me with all of this shit about "the swamp and emails and jobs and business and OMG 'DEPLORABLE!'" You don't get a pass. You cosigned on this nuclear shit missile that just hit the town that my family calls home. Am I saying that you're equally culpable as the terrorist who drove a Dodge Charger down a side street and killed Heather Heyer? Absolutely not. But you knowingly voted for the man who emboldened him. And you have to own that.
If you find yourself defending what happened this weekend by hiding behind the First Amendment, or trying to explain how the "radical left" incited the violence, have a long look in the mirror. If you find yourself making some ludicrous false equivalency between a domestic terrorist attack and peaceful protest, take a pause and think about your value system. If you wonder why your POC friends (who may not be that for much longer), are "triggered" or "uptight," this shit is exactly why.
We can't let the letter of the law be mistaken for the spirit of the law. The First Amendment protects free speech and assembly, everyone knows this. But to hide behind that is cowardly and irresponsible. I've never heard of anyone hiring a militia for a "peaceful protest," and coming strapped with enough artillery to invade a small nation. There was nothing peaceful about this from jumpstreet. And a young woman is dead because of it.
Lastly, for those who say "this isn't Charlottesville," take stock of what you're saying and how marginalizing that is to the folks for whom this is exactly what Charlottesville is and has been. It's not all King Family and Brook's Brothers for a large part of the community. There's a more "polite" race problem in Charlottesville, but it shouldn't take our city looking like Deliverance fucked Pakistan to make that clear.
I went to William & Mary, I'm light-skinned, I grew up in the suburbs, I don't say "nigga" too often, and I played the bassoon in band. And even as a relatively palatable black man, I still had "NIGGER" graffitied onto my family car.
In 20 years, when the young people now asked what we did in 2017, the answer can't be "nothing." This isn't toothless hicks driving debilitated winnebagos having cosplay parties in the woods (mostly). These are your stock brokers, college students, teachers, and politicians.
Mask off, Charlottesville.
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