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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThere is no such thing as a peaceful racist.
I don't care what they call themselves or how they wear their khakis and polo shirts. I don't care what they call themselves. Nazis are racists - I see no difference between a group that calls itself a white power group and one that calls itself a Nazi group. Aryan race/white power/supremacist = same exact thing. All racists.
I don't care how educated they are or how well they couch their language.
No such thing as a peaceful racist.
A racist is - by definition - violent.
Either through verbal assault they like to call free speech or physical assault - all violent.
No such thing as a peaceful rally of racists.
Again - violent by definition.
They don't hold rallies to celebrate the 1st amendment. They hide behind the 1st amendment.
They hold rallies to spread their hate - their words of violence - their voices of hate amplified by the press.
The more violence, the more press. Don't think for a second they don't want confrontation - they do. They provoke it.
Maybe this didn't need to be said here, but I still had to say it.
I'm still pissed.
shenmue
(38,503 posts)Solly Mack
(90,740 posts)From reading around the web, I've noticed people being more outraged by the Nazi element than the white supremacist element - even though there is no way to separate the two. People were dwelling on the Nazi aspect more so than the racism that binds them all. If that makes sense.
WW II Nazis were - and the current crop is - racist. White supremacist/white power groups w/o the Nazi icons are racists.
Bottom-line - all racist.
They call themselves Nazis because they hate non-whites and non-Christians and anyone not straight.
White power/supremacy is clearly anti- everything and anything not considered white. (and Christian, and straight)
Yeah, Nazis are disgusting. No disagreement from me. But let's not pretend that racism isn't the root cause for all of them. I know WWII and the Holocaust makes seeing Nazis all the more repugnant to most Americans but for me - it's the Holocaust, slavery, Jim Crow, Native genocide, anti-semitism, police brutality, homophobia, disparity in justice - all of it. When I see these racists, no matter what they call themselves - I see all of it in them. All the hate. All the atrocities. That's what they represent to me - all of it.
NobodyHere
(2,810 posts)Wtf?
Solly Mack
(90,740 posts)NobodyHere
(2,810 posts)And it dilutes the term.
Solly Mack
(90,740 posts)NobodyHere
(2,810 posts)Sticks and stones and all.
I've also been slugged.
Two very different experiences.
Solly Mack
(90,740 posts)And other slurs? Of decades and decades of dog whistles and soul crushing words of hate?
Of children who go home crying from school when their white classmates do the same?
You don't think words can hurt? Can't cause pain?
And you think the answer to it is sticks and stones?
OK. Whatever.
haele
(12,581 posts)If someone makes a legitimate verbal threat against you, or verbally harasses you, or compels you to do something you don't want to do via threats, they can be charged with a crime. Even if they try to claim they were joking...
Assault is not just laying hands on you.
Haele
american_ideals
(613 posts)And in resisting racism, we must be peaceful. That is the difference between them and us.
Solly Mack
(90,740 posts)dalton99a
(81,073 posts)Make them afraid.
Solly Mack
(90,740 posts)And then that rock buried.
Coventina
(26,874 posts)And that is violence.