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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBeing black, I am confused about what rights these insurrectionists claimed they were fighting for
Watching CNN profiling some of these insurrectionists. Ex cops, Ex military, business owners, ex local politicians
One guy - who claims to have made millions in ECommerce, after storming the capitol, posted that 2 people were dead and they needed all patriots to come and fight for their rights or it would be taken away.
Uhm, I am truly confused. A bunch of privileged white men declaring they have to fight for their rights? All the while with the audacity of not only storming the Capitol, recording it and posting it to social media. No fear about what could happen to them. Hey its not like they had fear of being choked to death, or shot. Even after their failed coup, many are released on home release. imagine that. Black and Brown folks are still getting jammed up for minor shit. Kaleif Browder was in jail for 3 years for allegedly stealing a backpack. So much for right to speedy trial. These folks are getting to go home to their moms.
Yeah, I'm so confused. Exactly what rights are being taken away from them again? Has anyone asked them? I'd sure love to hear their answers.
sandensea
(21,530 posts)Or an ill-bred teenager, after being denied some ultra-violent video game - while his homework gathers dust.
Except the consequences here are, of course, far more serious.
JI7
(89,182 posts)equal to them.
DBoon
(22,288 posts)and wish they had the "freedom" to own slaves
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)Skittles
(152,967 posts)that's at the heart of being a "conservative" and that's what they mean when they say they want to take back OUR country
RACIST ASSHOLES
SlogginThroughIt
(1,977 posts)LovingA2andMI
(7,006 posts)Not African-Americans, that for sure. And no rights have been "taken" from them.
LeftInTX
(24,560 posts)And it's privilege because they feel entitled to do it.
These people are "entitled". They are "My way or highway and screw everyone in my path". It's pure selfishness.
They claim the "Capitol belongs to them", so they have the right to destroy it. They are all about, "me, me, me".
They also feel entitled with testosterone.
Don't try too hard to figure them out. They aren't good people. They're evil people. This really isn't a question of "their rights". It's about their "lawlessness".
Yes the PTB allows this. These people fought cops and there was a cop shortage. They bullied the cops and got away with. Our society has turned a blind eyes to white nationalists. There have been warning signs for years.
They are not losing rights...They are sickos who want to dominate every man, woman and child in America. If they can't, they attack.
They're like a bad movie!
hamsterjill
(15,214 posts)n/t
MustLoveBeagles
(11,563 posts)LeftInTX
(24,560 posts)PurgedVoter
(2,192 posts)Hate brought them to the game, but being cray cray is what keeps them there. Listen to Fox for five minutes and you are either a masochist, taking a hit for the team or cray cray. I say cray, cause crazy just doesn't fit anymore. Crazy is almost normal now. These folk are crunk on evil dreams. Listen to them. The ones that can manage to sound rational have a sort of switch in their brain. They can swing into cray faster than Breitbart can spin lies.
Karadeniz
(22,283 posts)Think about.
Have you noticed, during all the Covid-related interviews with medical experts, how many of them are Oriental or Middle Eastern? They've taken advantage of every opportunity available and made successes of themselves and they make positive contributions. When you see the rioters, most of them look like people who haven't had a dream they were willing to work for. I'm not putting down our solid middle class workers, but chances are the militiamen feel more comfortable blaming others or the system for an emptiness inside them. They whine with guns. They want respect and recognition, but they won't work for them.
ananda
(28,783 posts)Thats from all I can tell.
My Pet Orangutan
(9,101 posts)malaise
(267,838 posts)and the truth is that they hate really really hate successful non-whites.
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Mike Nelson
(9,903 posts)... their "Right" to carry a gun is something they might answer. Or, their right to have a hundred guns - military style. They need them to defend themselves against a "Democrat Gov'ment." They don't read the US Constitution when it says "A WELL-REGULATED militia." They don't believe in regulations. They believe Kamala is going to start collecting their guns. They said Obama would do that... but they seem to have forgotten... he never did send someone to their house and collect their guns.
... also, they want the "Right" not to marry someone of the same gender. Why they need this to be a law is not logical, I know... but they are not logical. Gay marriage bothers them. Abortion and women having more "Rights" than a man is also bothersome. They find these "Rights" in the Bible. My New Testament doesn't include all this stuff about Gays and Abortion, but I guess it's an early edition. Their religious "Rights" are very important and they believe America should follow their faith.
... and, yes, as noted in posts above, they feel White people - European, Caucasian - should be running everything. They don't want to extinguish others - they just want them to go "home" (Africa, Mexico...).
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,483 posts)They claim to want "their country" back but never define what was there before that's been taken away or when it was taken.
Confederate statues? Bars and restaurants that have closed? The right to dump hazardous chemicals in the creek?
What have I missed?....... .......
LeftInTX
(24,560 posts)Mad at everything
Wawannabe
(5,580 posts)These assholes were told by the sitting RESIDENT and (I think) some sitting lawmakers to come to the Capitol and take the house back. The insurrectionists truly thought they had a right.
Not that it is true, but they were/are just stupid and emboldened enough to try.
Thankfully they were too stupid and it backfired. Thankfully djt is even more stupid and he failed at his coup.
White men, in general have whined since political correctness became a thing, then whined even more about laws to help minorities (including their women) gain a foothold in various places in society. But, when a black man was voted President, these same whites were outraged and diminished too...so now they have been foaming at the mouth for about a decade trying to make themselves viable again. Welp, tRump was their wet dream come true. Their Right White.
I think Joe Bidens team will make sure their rights are mirandized and they will see jail time. There will be those that plea down their charges but hopefully for a damn good reason...such as turning in evidence a lawmaker was involved. I also think Joe is gonna make some big gains in civil right for blacks and immigrants.
And Kamala Harris is gonna be the next President of the United States!
yardwork
(61,418 posts)Maeve
(42,225 posts)Being crazy might...
Tom Rinaldo
(22,911 posts)The right to be able to define who is undesirable and to keep them out of their neighborhoods. The right to tell other people what they can do inside their bedrooms, the right to not be supervised by a woman, you know, basis rights
yardwork
(61,418 posts)Poor kid. When his mom pointed out that he needed his organic food the jail relented.
brer cat
(24,402 posts)I do wish the media would do their job and ask that question.
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)I just listen to this historian, Timothy Snyder. Hes got this right.
sinkingfeeling
(51,279 posts)reality. In their math, 74 million is greater than 81 million.
Wounded Bear
(58,440 posts)As a white man approaching 70, I'm still working to suppress racial tendencies I learned growing up.
msfiddlestix
(7,265 posts)From Supreme Court Justice Alito's ridiculous OpEd a few months ago whining about mandated face masks wearing insisting that it was the biggest threat to our LIBERTY. The world he lives in, that having to wear a face mask in public for the sake of our public health is threatening his freedoms. This from a Supreme Court Justice, no less.
To MTG stalking David Hogg and harrassing him with regard to his anti-gun activism. Whining that he was threatening her "right to bear arms" Harrassing him. Stalking him.
It's about White Privilege and Self Absorbed Entitlement, and IGNORANCE. imo.
JudyM
(29,122 posts)troops were, and who ordered them to DC. Then hammer home the stark difference between what was done to protect DC then and why it was so different this last time.