Inciting Violence: A White Male Privilege

[Skidmore]

I was going to put this in the AA forum, but I reconsidered because it really needs to go here since it deals with Trump and his followers.

https://www.laprogressive.com/white-male-privilege/

When you are a white man in America, you can say what you want and, apparently, even incite violence.

Case in point: Kentucky Governor Matt Bevin.

In an election season where white conservative Trump supporters have been known to increase the intensity of hateful, violent rhetoric, Bevin may have outdone most of them by announcing that if Hillary Clinton wins the presidency, conservatives will have to resort to physical violence in order to protect their values. This is just the latest incitement to violence by a radical white man.

And given that some in the media (esp. cable news) have failed to condemn these people and hold their feet to the fire, it is only a matter of time before someone gets hurt.

Since Donald Trump arrived on the political scene, he has empowered white nationalists, white supremacists, neo-Nazis and Klan members alike to be themselves and say and do what they please.

I want us to be able to fight ideologically, mentally, spiritually, economically, so that we don’t have to do it physically,” Bevin said at the Values Voter Summit in Washington. “But that may, in fact, be the case....more

[jehop61]

1. And an NFL

player just sits on a bench during the national anthem and is castigated for weeks.