The insurrection on January 6th, 2021 all boils down to one thing.

[William769]

[dchill]

1. I'd really love to stack the recs on this one.

K&R!

[William769]

4. Thank you.

Seems like since the election my OP's sink like the titanic.

Trying to break the cycle.

[SheltieLover]

2. K&R!

Fking idiots are still trying to "win" the Civil War.

And they are beyond terrified of the possibility of a Black woooooman as president.

[leftieNanner]

17. A Big Part of our Problems Today

Are due to the fact that we never properly addressed the racism from the Civil War. We allowed them to climb back under their slimy rocks and they keep coming out. First in white hoods and now in red caps. Until they have genuine consequences for this, they will never figure out that they LOST!

[SheltieLover]

29. Agreed!

Hold them ALL to account legally. Max sentences for every single one.

Notice how many rwnjs are running into protesters since Heather Heyer's murderer was sentenced to life + 419 years? Not so many.

[Claire Oh Nette]

19. this

They've had misogyny saved up since since Obama got the nomination in 2008. They let it fester, and it came out all over the place with anti Hilary rhetoric and the attraction of Trump--the most sexist, misogynistic, racist, xenophobic moronic man ever to run for public office. He's really the first White Identity President--they voted for him because he wasn't black and wasn't a woman.

Their fear is really that Biden won't make it through and a Black woman shows them for the uneducated, skates by on white charm, lazy entitled SOBs they are

[SheltieLover]

30. Absofuckingloutely!

I've been saying this since Joe & Kamala won!

Not a woooooman! And a Black wooooman!

I believe this is the underlying reason for 1/6.

They are beyond revolting.

[Claire Oh Nette]

33. it's ther ein black and white

Whose House? Our House!

"We showed them who's still in charge. We showed Congress we still run this country..."

Who, exactly, is we??
Who's the We in this We the people bullshit?
Who stormed the Capitol?

AntiFascists? BLM? Uh, they posted their own videos, so there's that.

Look at their own posts. White men. White, pasty, balding, bearded, middle aged, middle class, free-pass men.

Even Mr Oh Nette, who's a math teacher, glibly tossed off Well, white women were there. Maybe 1 in 5.

Find any picture. Count. Maybe 1 in 20 in the right picture. Closer to 1 in 100. This is a white men's last gasp of macho. We'll show those ________ we're still boss. They are the wife beaters of our country, too, I'd wager.

Racism. Nothing but. Never was anything more than fear of a black planet.

[SheltieLover]

34. Yup

100% agreed!

[Walleye]

35. That's why so many are being Id'ed to the FBI by ex-wives and girlfriends 😆😩

[Claire Oh Nette]

38. this part brings me secret glee

[Walleye]

47. Same here. Not ashamed of it. I hate domestic violence

[SheltieLover]

46. Likely so

But, in my limited experience with those types of women, they seem to idolize redneck men.

Yes, even their abusers. 😏

Words cannot describe how women like that behave.

[Rice4VP]

41. And the votes are "illegal" and "illegitimate" because they

know that Black people came out in droves to vote for her.

[fierywoman]

3. Goya's 3rd of May 1808 -- for it's imagery, not for what it was about

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_of_May_1808

[William769]

6. Thank you for the link.

[brer cat]

5. I believe you are exactly right, Bill.

K&R

[William769]

7. ...

[electric_blue68]

8. Unfortunately, True. 😔

[William769]

9. yes.

But we have the power to change minds & deprogram. I am an eternal optimist.

[electric_blue68]

11. Yes and ...

1) I've read the stories of hard core racists genuinely changing

2) Studies show each next generation of white children is less racist than the last



As horrible as it has been- I have hope too.

[Walleye]

36. George Wallace changed, but only after he's been shot and had to be in a wheelchair

[electric_blue68]

39. I remember that

[jimlup]

10. EXACTLY THIS!

They claim gun rights - they mean RACISM

They claim freedom - they mean RACISM

They claim excessive Government - they mean RACISM

They claim lose of freedom - they mean RACISM

[William769]

12. You're on point with this post also.

[brush]

15. And the votes they want to throw out are from majority black cities and counties.

[Rice4VP]

43. And they code it by saying "Democrat" run cities

[Walleye]

37. They scream Roe is Wade-They mean Brown vs Board of Education

[electric_blue68]

40. A lot mean both

[Walleye]

45. True, but that's where the hatred of the Supreme Court originated

[Squinch]

13. Yup.

[llashram]

14. this++

[George II]

16. Without a doubt.

[dansolo]

18. More succinctly put

The "illegal" votes they keep going on about are minority voters. They don't believe that minorities should be allowed to vote. They are upset that mail-in voting and early voting works against their tried and true voter suppression tactics.

[Rice4VP]

44. Yep

[erronis]

20. Don't forget the powers-that-be don't give a shit about racism,

they want to stoke conflict among the others - the others being white/brown/black, but not in power.

This isn't really about race, it's about class. But the white yokels taking their clues from the PTB think it's about protecting their White Heritage.

Class can be define by many things depending on the population.
- Race
- Language
- Family name
- Geographic origin
- Wealth
- Religion
- Skin and eye color
- Height / body build / symmetry
- Disease
- etcetera, etcetera.

[Biophilic]

21. Yup. I agree nt

[TimeToGo]

22. Primarily

But we would be foolish not to recognize other aspects of this fascism. Hatred of the other - the weak as defined by a the movement is not necessarily completely based on race. There is a lot to the study. Let’s work to understand complexity. They don’t/we do.

[iluvtennis]

23. KnR - exactly right. Black/brown/Asian/native/other minorities voted in record numbers. those

white insurrectionists didn't like that since it removed their white supremacist leader from office.

[trickyguy]

24. I've looked at a lot of pictures/videos of the Washington D.C. riot and one thing

stuck out. I didn't see one Black person in that entire crowd. Doesn't
surprise me though, since I don't think any Blacks would be welcome in that
crowd of "good old white folks".

There's a definite divide there for racism to enter into.

[Behind the Aegis]

25. One aspect, yes. Me, I would say it was "BIGOTRY" that was the motivating factor.

While racism ranks up there, sexism, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, cis-/heterosexism, and transphobia are all very much in the mix to various degrees.

[StClone]

26. Any claim to the contrary needs to explain why...

...Participants were exclusive 25-to-65 year-old male Caucasians.

[BigmanPigman]

27. I read the title and said out loud, "racism".

It isn't about the terrorists being hit by a bad economy which they always use as an excuse. We know they have good paying jobs, buy expensive military gear, boats, trucks, etc. It is all about RACISM, everything else is a BS excuse.

[BobTheSubgenius]

28. It's even worse than that.

That's what the catastrophe of the last 4 years have been about.

[sheshe2]

31. I would say you are correct.

[barbtries]

32. it really does.

Nancy Pelosi put it well when she said the insurrectionists had chosen "their whiteness over democracy"

[BootinUp]

42. Correct. Nt

[colsohlibgal]

48. No Doubt

This all moved into high gear as a reaction to having a President who was a man of color for 8 years.

I will never understand it. People are people.

I’m not sure how we get past this, how we bring these people back from lunacy...as in believing Democrats are Devil worshipping baby eaters.

Reigning in Social Media is a good start.