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bemildred

(90,061 posts)
Wed Jun 29, 2016, 09:38 AM Jun 2016

White Supremacists Are Met With Rocks in Sacramento and Scorn in Newcastle

As my colleague Glenn Greenwald argues, it is too simple to suggest that last week’s rejection of the European Union by more than half of the British electorate, like Donald Trump’s victory in the Republican primary, can be explained by dismissing the voters as racists.

In both countries, and across the Western world, xenophobic bigots who pin the blame on foreigners, and promise to restore prosperity by walling us off into ethnic-nationalist enclaves, have grown in prominence only after decades of failure by the traditional parties of left and right to find solutions for the suffering caused by globalization.

At the same time, however, it seems clear that the rhetoric of the referendum campaign in Britain, like Trump’s demonization of Mexican and Muslim immigrants, has emboldened the white supremacist fringe in ways too dangerous to ignore.

As the British historian Victoria Stiles observed, the referendum result, which has been followed by a 57 percent spike in reported hate crimes, seems to have encouraged the kind of public displays of racism in Britain that make physical assaults more likely.

https://theintercept.com/2016/06/28/white-supremacist-rallies-met-rocks-sacramento-scorn-newcastle/

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White Supremacists Are Met With Rocks in Sacramento and Scorn in Newcastle (Original Post) bemildred Jun 2016 OP
Until I saw that article's video, I never thought anything could make neo-Nazis look sympathetic. mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2016 #1
I agree. bemildred Jun 2016 #2
Not sticking up for the douche... awoke_in_2003 Jun 2016 #3

mahatmakanejeeves

(56,890 posts)
1. Until I saw that article's video, I never thought anything could make neo-Nazis look sympathetic.
Wed Jun 29, 2016, 10:54 AM
Jun 2016
After the melee, Yvette Felarca, a national organizer with BAMN — who was seen on video* cursing at and punching one of the white nationalists — told the ABC News affiliate in Sacramento, “to us, there’s no free speech for fascists; they do not have the right to organize for genocide.”

* Go in three minutes and 47 seconds:



She can't use poor education as an excuse:

Yvette Felarca

About Yvette Felarca.

Work.

BAMNHS

Education.

University at Albany, SUNY
Albany, New York

UC Berkeley
Berkeley, California

Norwich High School

Current City and Hometown.

Oakland, California
Current city

Norwich, New York
Hometown

I hope that this appallingly ignorant fool never casts a vote or serves on a jury. She's just too damn stupid to handle such a responsibility.

I walked past this building this morning:


bemildred

(90,061 posts)
2. I agree.
Wed Jun 29, 2016, 11:19 AM
Jun 2016

Anger management all around, but especially the people who claim to be fighting bigotry and Fascism and things like that, them folks are fools if they think a little public rioting and gang violence will end bigotry, white supremacists, or Fascism. They will thrive on exactly that, which is why they have provocative marches.

I like the British approach much better, everybody gets to talk, nobody gets shut up, nobody gets to play the victim (but they will try anyway),

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