Fuckin hell, there are some seriously scary mentalities on display in this thread recently.
Equating "both sides" in this weekends protests and murder is like shaming the rape victim for showing up with a dress on! Did you see the torches parade on Friday night? Do you know what that is reminiscent of? Did you know that the Civil Rights Act in the US was only signed in my lifetime...and it was hugely contentious even then!
And, this murder is not an isolated incident. Earlier this year, a Nazi sympathizer walked up to a black man standing at a bus stop on a college campus and stabbed him to death, right there, on the spot.
From the local newspaper:
Richard Collins III was about to graduate from Bowie State University on Tuesday. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the US Army. He was airborne certified. He was a son, a friend, and active in his church.
To Sean Urbanski, a University of Maryland student, he was black. At around 3 am on Saturday, May 20, Collins waited for an Uber ride along with two friends who were students at UMD at an on-campus bus stop. Urbanski walked up to them, and, according to witnesses, said, “Step left, step left if you know what’s best for you.” Collins simply replied, “No.” He stood his ground. Urbanski then stabbed him in the chest and fled the scene. Collins died at the hospital.
The incident was captured on CCTV. There was no mistaking what happened or why. White Nazi murdering black man in cold blood on the street on his way home from the bar.
I'm sick and tired of the people who hear the dog whistles and claim there was nothing to hear, and then turn around and try to point to some thing "the other side" said or did. It is tired. It is lazy. In this instance, it is racist Nazis trying to take over a small city and threaten others into submission...and we have a president who is trying to facilitate them and their methods. The Nazis have planned NINE other "rallies" this weekend. I would politely suggest that if they happen, things might not go well.
Trump is a disgrace, they are a disgrace, and the appeasers and apologists on this thread are a disgrace.