This is what emboldened white supremacists look like
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Edit: misread this part. So clarification withdrawn.
So you're still okay talking about me then.
lain: Thanks for the warning anyway. It doesn't belong on a Christian site, but at least you let us know. I won't watch it then.Extremists act like extremists, left of right. That's mostly loud, frequently hostile, and largely evidencing an embarrassingly myopic world view.
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annabenedetti
like marbles on glass
drbrumley
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Nice flag except for the defacement of it.
Doubling down or poor decision making.
lain:
annabenedetti
like marbles on glass
A Few Things Got Left Out of The Daily Caller’s Report on Confederate Monument Rally
A reporter for the conservative news site neglected to mention he’d given a speech in front of protesters in support of white nationalism.
On May 14, The Daily Caller, a popular conservative website, published a news storyabout recent protests in Charlottesville, Virginia. Led by prominent white supremacists and anti-Semites, the protesters, some carrying the battle flag of the Confederacy, expressed their anger over the city’s plans to remove a large monument to Robert E. Lee.
The article noted that some 200 people had carried torches in a march to the monument, a procession it called “visually striking.” It also quoted a young black man speaking favorably about one of the protest’s organizers.
The story, it turned out, also carried some critical omissions: It didn’t disclose that its author, Jason Kessler, is supportive of white supremacist groups, and on the day of the march had himself made a speech to the protesters in which he praised fascist and racist organizations, thanked a prominent Holocaust denier, and declared the beginnings of a cultural “civil war.”
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Within hours of being contacted by a ProPublica reporter, The Daily Caller appended an editor’s note to the article and severed its ties with Kessler. The editor’s note states, “The author notified The Daily Caller after publication that he spoke at a luncheon May 14 on behalf of an effort to preserve the monument.”
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“Kessler is representative of what hate looks like today, operating at the center of several movements that have arisen over the last few years,” said Oren Segal, Director of the ADL’s Center on Extremism. “He clearly sympathizes with white supremacists, but like many on the alt-right seeks to deflect such notions by presenting his words and activity as a mere response to multiculturalism and an assault from the left.”
On May 14, The Daily Caller, a popular conservative website, published a news storyabout recent protests in Charlottesville, Virginia. Led by prominent white supremacists and anti-Semites, the protesters, some carrying the battle flag of the Confederacy, expressed their anger over the city’s plans to remove a large monument to Robert E. Lee.
The article noted that some 200 people had carried torches in a march to the monument, a procession it called “visually striking.” It also quoted a young black man speaking favorably about one of the protest’s organizers.
The story, it turned out, also carried some critical omissions: It didn’t disclose that its author, Jason Kessler, is supportive of white supremacist groups, and on the day of the march had himself made a speech to the protesters in which he praised fascist and racist organizations, thanked a prominent Holocaust denier, and declared the beginnings of a cultural “civil war.”
. . . .
Within hours of being contacted by a ProPublica reporter, The Daily Caller appended an editor’s note to the article and severed its ties with Kessler. The editor’s note states, “The author notified The Daily Caller after publication that he spoke at a luncheon May 14 on behalf of an effort to preserve the monument.”
. . . .
“Kessler is representative of what hate looks like today, operating at the center of several movements that have arisen over the last few years,” said Oren Segal, Director of the ADL’s Center on Extremism. “He clearly sympathizes with white supremacists, but like many on the alt-right seeks to deflect such notions by presenting his words and activity as a mere response to multiculturalism and an assault from the left.”
I agree.
I agree.
Interesting post getting buried by people without much to say but an apparent need to be seen saying it anyway.
lain:
Totally agree
:cheers:
You don't think he's done anything to deserve the designation?
drbrumley
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Did he say anything like your hero Bill Maher this past Friday?
My "hero" Bill Maher:
1. Should absolutely not have said what he did.
2. Has already apologized.
3. Has been widely condemned by others on the left.
Ok, your turn. Show me where Trump has ever apologized for any of his horrible comments.
drbrumley
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:up:
So?
That's why he still has a job...
The topic is white supremacy....Where has Trump ever said anything remotely close to Maher had said...a citation would be nice...
So that's more than Trump has ever done in his entire wretched life.
It's been 24 hours. On a weekend.
Whether he's forgiven or not isn't up to me. But I don't think that in substance it's as bad as a lot of what Trump has said.
As far as I know, he's never uttered a slur on camera.
How about when he said that Alberto Gonzalez couldn't be fair to him because he's "Mexican"?
drbrumley
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Thank you....case closed.
Hardly.
No.
Do you?