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You are here: Home / Politics / domestic terrorists / Kids these days

Kids these days

by David Anderson|  August 12, 201710:07 pm| 156 Comments

This post is in: domestic terrorists, Goddamned Traitors, Organizing & Resistance, All we want is life beyond the thunderdome

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Teenagers standing up to a sea of white supremacists carrying torches.

Snowflakes my ass. pic.twitter.com/HbQXOlkjrt

— Downtown Josh Brown (@ReformedBroker) August 12, 2017

I have incredible respect for those students. If I was 19 and standing there, I would have punched someone. The discipline and the courage to bear witness and hold onto their values without allowing themselves to respond to clear and constant provocations is incredible.

The kids are alright.

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  1. 1.

    Gemina13

    August 12, 2017 at 10:09 pm

    These kids are beautiful, and I want to protect them from the cesspit dwellers surrounding them.

  2. 2.

    Elie

    August 12, 2017 at 10:10 pm

    Their non violence in response is so STRONG. I send them all my love and note their honor to what is important. Wonderful!

  3. 3.

    Cheryl Rofer

    August 12, 2017 at 10:11 pm

    This is so important. I saw “The Singing Revolution” again a few weeks ago. It’s about the nonviolent protests that led to Estonia’s leaving the Soviet Union and precipitating its breakup. People HAD to be nonviolent because anything else would have given Mikhail Gorbachev a reason to crack down. Hardliners were leaning on him to. It seemed to me that we need to be learning nonviolent protest again. It’s not easy. The nonviolent civil rights protesters of the 1960s did a lot of training.

  4. 4.

    efgoldman

    August 12, 2017 at 10:12 pm

    It’s probably not a coincidence that the racist shitbag assholes chose to hold their demonstration when school was not in session and ~22,000 students weren’t on campus.

  5. 5.

    Phred

    August 12, 2017 at 10:13 pm

    These kids are beautiful and will grow to be greater than all of us are.

  6. 6.

    lamh36

    August 12, 2017 at 10:15 pm

    Saw this last night…good for those kids…

    The media really needs to make sure to point out that it didn’t start this morning, but started last night when Richard Spencer et al, had their stupid Tiki march…

  7. 7.

    Phred

    August 12, 2017 at 10:18 pm

    @Gemina13: I hear you and understand you.

    I’m only happy to know that these kids are beautiful and brave and will grow to be greater than all of us are.

  8. 8.

    NotMax

    August 12, 2017 at 10:21 pm

    Solidarność.

  9. 9.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    August 12, 2017 at 10:22 pm

    Nothing say American values like torch parades.

  10. 10.

    Phred

    August 12, 2017 at 10:22 pm

    @lamh36: From what I’ve read, last night the police allowed the Tiki Nazis a free hand to attack those at the Thomas Jefferson statue. Why???

  11. 11.

    debbie

    August 12, 2017 at 10:22 pm

    I’m sorry. Everything about those alt-right clowns is hateful and despicable, but marching around with tiki torches makes them look like pussies.

  12. 12.

    Major Major Major Major

    August 12, 2017 at 10:23 pm

    Are their faces down so they don’t get identified and targeted later?

  13. 13.

    JPL

    August 12, 2017 at 10:24 pm

    Thank you for taking time off of your vacation to post that picture. The kids are all right.

  14. 14.

    Brachiator

    August 12, 2017 at 10:24 pm

    @Cheryl Rofer:

    People HAD to be nonviolent because anything else would have given Mikhail Gorbachev a reason to crack down. Hardliners were leaning on him to. It seemed to me that we need to be learning nonviolent protest again. It’s not easy.

    Civil rights protesters were protesting against official, often militaristic authority. The alt right fools don’t represent anyone but themselves. Mockery, instead of violence is about all they deserve. And obviously non violence is good lest things spiral out of control and hurt innocents.

    ETA. We are coming up on the anniversary of the August 14 partition of India and Pakistan. And of course non-violent resistance was part of the strategy to win independence. Various BBC programs, from the News Hour to the Women’s Hour to various history programs and podcasts have wonderful segments, often with interviews of people who lived through those times or their descendants. Very fascinating stuff.

    I hope that people will be able to look back and see that something good emerged from these crazy times.

  15. 15.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 12, 2017 at 10:26 pm

    @Major Major Major Major: That would be sensible.

  16. 16.

    NotMax

    August 12, 2017 at 10:26 pm

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques

    Inherit the Wind – marching backward.

  17. 17.

    Mary G

    August 12, 2017 at 10:32 pm

    Those six or seven students are braver than all the torchbearers plus Trump.

  18. 18.

    Jeffro

    August 12, 2017 at 10:33 pm

    Probably no colncidence that those late-teen students came of age during the years 2008-2016, back when there was a role model the whole country could look up to.

    Sort of the opposite of Reagan Babies, if you think about it.

  19. 19.

    debbie

    August 12, 2017 at 10:33 pm

    @Major Major Major Major:

    I wonder what statue that is they’re standing around.

  20. 20.

    debbie

    August 12, 2017 at 10:34 pm

    @Mary G:

    There’s many more of them, encircling some statue.

  21. 21.

    PhoenixRising

    August 12, 2017 at 10:35 pm

    Where do I click to help sponsor a weekend for John Lewis, Diane Nash and the other survivors of the Nashville sit-in movement to connect with this generation’s best and brightest?

  22. 22.

    The Fat Kate Middleton

    August 12, 2017 at 10:36 pm

    Thank you, you beautiful kids. I am in tears, and feel such hope on this terrible day.

  23. 23.

    Chris

    August 12, 2017 at 10:37 pm

    @Phred:

    And yet “thank God for our brave heroic cops” is all over the airwaves. Gag.

  24. 24.

    InternetDragons

    August 12, 2017 at 10:38 pm

    Speaking of respect…I can’t imagine what it was like for this Black officer protecting the Nazis today:

    https://twitter.com/NumbersMuncher/status/896519731267727361

  25. 25.

    Major Major Major Major

    August 12, 2017 at 10:39 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: agree. And upsetting as hell.

  26. 26.

    opiejeanne

    August 12, 2017 at 10:40 pm

    @Major Major Major Major: I was thinking they hid their faces so Mom and Dad wouldn’t see them and worry.

  27. 27.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    August 12, 2017 at 10:41 pm

    @NotMax: Obviously I misspoke, they are pinning for the 1650s.

  28. 28.

    Adam L Silverman

    August 12, 2017 at 10:41 pm

    @Major Major Major Major: Yes and to prevent them from being sprayed in the eyes with bear (pepper) spray or mace by the protestors.

  29. 29.

    Adam L Silverman

    August 12, 2017 at 10:42 pm

    @debbie: Thomas Jefferson. It is on the U Virginia quad.

  30. 30.

    The Dangerman

    August 12, 2017 at 10:43 pm

    Let’s just melt the statue of Robert E. Lee and make Urinal Cakes out of it.

  31. 31.

    Jeffro

    August 12, 2017 at 10:43 pm

    @PhoenixRising: I don’t know, but Sara Benincasa had a good list up on Twitter of Charlottesville-area charities, churches, and other organizations that help support the community in time of need. You can check that out.

  32. 32.

    tobie

    August 12, 2017 at 10:43 pm

    @Major Major Major Major: According to a Guardian article referenced in the twitter thread, the white nationalists were surrounding counter-protesters and pepper spraying them or throwing lighter fluid in their direction. I don’t think the students are hiding. It’s more likely they’re protecting their faces from noxious fumes.

    EDIT: oops…I see Adam mentioned this in #28.

  33. 33.

    Major Major Major Major

    August 12, 2017 at 10:44 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: that was my other guess.

  34. 34.

    opiejeanne

    August 12, 2017 at 10:45 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: That’s more likely than my idea.

  35. 35.

    Ohio Mom

    August 12, 2017 at 10:46 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Further proof that our side is smarter.

    A lot of those Nazis are going to be recognized and identified via social media, and that will follow them around. There is already one twitter feed making the rounds where the tweets are along the lines of “That’s the jerk from our history class!” “He lived in my dorm!”

  36. 36.

    lgerard

    August 12, 2017 at 10:46 pm

    @debbie:

    Jefferson

  37. 37.

    debbie

    August 12, 2017 at 10:46 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:

    Thanks. They really were very brave.

  38. 38.

    Steeplejack

    August 12, 2017 at 10:51 pm

    @InternetDragons:

    That picture is not from today. It is from a Klan rally on July 8, according to the comments.

  39. 39.

    Peale

    August 12, 2017 at 10:53 pm

    @debbie: make your own torches or stay home.

  40. 40.

    lamh36

    August 12, 2017 at 10:58 pm

    @ABC 11m11 minutes ago
    More
    JUST IN: FBI opens civil rights investigation into circumstances of “deadly vehicular incident” in Charlottesville. http://abcn.ws/2vPqvAo

  41. 41.

    Adam L Silverman

    August 12, 2017 at 10:59 pm

    @lamh36: It would be better if they opened a domestic security file (domestic terrorism investigation) in the circumstances. But that they’re taking action is a good sign.

  42. 42.

    scav

    August 12, 2017 at 11:02 pm

    @Brachiator: Some photos I just ran across for your India anniversary sidenote.

    It helps somewhat to be reminded that the entire nation isn’t ok with this. Enough of them seem placid enough to be tacit enablers to put me in a space beyond words.

  43. 43.

    Lyrebird

    August 12, 2017 at 11:06 pm

    @lamh36: Old reply but I wanted to thank you for flagging that excellent letter from Martin Booman …Longman? I don’t know. Glad I read it.

    Will this latest tragedy help the Ryan Coopers notice that we’re still not a post-racial society? Who knows.

  44. 44.

    Kay

    August 12, 2017 at 11:07 pm

    Hope springs eternal at the NYTimes. Maybe Ivanka will ride in and magically turn her father into a completely different and much better person! Any day now ! Could happen!

    Maggie Haberman‏Verified account @maggieNYT 23m23 minutes ago
    More
    Shabbat has been over for a few hours. Ivanka Trump, who sometimes weighs in on Twitter on major incidents, silent re the neo-Nazi rally.

    Next up: General Kelly Will Save Us All, Part IV.

  45. 45.

    lamh36

    August 12, 2017 at 11:10 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:

    @ABC
    JUST IN: AG Sessions says federal investigation opened into Charlottesville incident: “Justice will prevail.” http://abcn.ws/2vxhclH

    Somehow I just don’t believe Sessions truly cares if “justice prevails”

  46. 46.

    sharl

    August 12, 2017 at 11:10 pm

    I never thought I would link to a tweet from da share z0ne over here – dsz’s feed is more for the young irony/weird twitter crowd – but if you liked the short video clip of Hitler’s building-top swastika gettin’ blowed up real good in Cole’s earlier post, you might like this as well.

  47. 47.

    Adam L Silverman

    August 12, 2017 at 11:10 pm

    In case anyone was wondering why the white polos and khakis:

    Yep. pic.twitter.com/p2zLDwwngJ

    — buttercup resistance (@cammarays) August 13, 2017

    Also, here’s our lovely domestic terrorist earlier today prior to committing murder:

    I think we know what side James Alex Fields Jr is on pic.twitter.com/IQeR4sVApl

    — Barnyard Saunders (@LorenzoMeow) August 13, 2017

  48. 48.

    trollhattan

    August 12, 2017 at 11:11 pm

    Meet our new police chief and remember that most of the country isn’t insane. We’re suffering from a nasty minority having their day in the limelight.

  49. 49.

    Adam L Silverman

    August 12, 2017 at 11:13 pm

    @lamh36: He doesn’t. But the career folks at the FBI, especially the Field Office for that portion of Virginia, the natsec department, and the career natsec prosecutors at the DOJ, as well as the career folks at the US Attorney’s Office for that portion of Virginia do.

  50. 50.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    August 12, 2017 at 11:13 pm

    Pro-Tip: If you haul your pathetic, underachieving, lily white gamer ass from Ohio to Virginia to march around with assholes who wear swastikas, carry clubs and torches, and shout “White Power” and “Blood and Soil”, you can take that weak shit about “ah wuz skeered when them protestors wuz around muh car” on out of here.

    You’re no wide eyed innocent. You were there to do bad things in the name of your “superior”(LOL) race.

  51. 51.

    efgoldman

    August 12, 2017 at 11:13 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:

    But that they’re taking action is a good sign.

    Also given who the AG is, a large surprise.

  52. 52.

    Major Major Major Major

    August 12, 2017 at 11:15 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: if you had told me, before last year, that in 2017 the country would be beset by violent Nazis cosplaying as Donald Trump golfing…

  53. 53.

    Yutsano

    August 12, 2017 at 11:17 pm

    *waves from a hotel room south of Seattle*

    Non-violent resistance is indeed hard. Kudos to those kids.

  54. 54.

    Formerly disgruntled in Oregon

    August 12, 2017 at 11:20 pm

    Thank you for everything today Balloon Juice ?Don’t know what I’d do without this community.

  55. 55.

    Frankensteinbeck

    August 12, 2017 at 11:20 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:
    It didn’t occur to me that it would be the FBI, but it would have to be, wouldn’t it? Was Comey replaced? It strikes me that Sessions would be too distanced from the level where the investigation happens to sweep it under the rug.

  56. 56.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    August 12, 2017 at 11:22 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:

    If that wannabe Heydrich makes any Pretrial release, he’d better tat up in AB colors here and now.

    Of course, he’ll be somebody’s bitch for a few years, even in the AB, but at least he can maybe avoid being randomly shanked by people outside the AB.

  57. 57.

    Lyrebird

    August 12, 2017 at 11:24 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: Do you know what the crossed rolling pins are supposed to stand for? Maybe I should not ask, but I do think that shedding light on these domestic terrorist groups is important.

  58. 58.

    Mike J

    August 12, 2017 at 11:25 pm

    Hey beantown, next week the circus will be in your town:
    https://twitter.com/petexnasty/status/896517264131842048

  59. 59.

    Adam L Silverman

    August 12, 2017 at 11:26 pm

    @lamh36: @efgoldman: I want to make another point on this right now that I’ll expand on in a post (eventually). Despite the President’s tepid and thoroughly unacceptable responses today (twitter, press availability, more twitter), having several of these happen in short order is as much a threat to the President, his presidency, AG Sessions, and AG Sessions agenda for DOJ action. Chaos may suit Putin’s ambitions. And, perhaps, Bannon’s. But several of these, showing that the administration cannot just ensure the safety of Americans to protest or counterprotest, but that the President cannot actually separate himself from the white nationalists and white supremacists, regardless of which group they come from, perpetrating acts of domestic terrorism will become fatal to his Presidency. This isn’t 1916-1917 when Wilson could hire a propagandist to convince the vast majority of Americans to accept an authoritarian usurpation of the Constitution because the US was going to and then in a war. This is 2017. You can’t stop the signal. And no matter what the President or Bannon may think, they can’t control the message. You can’t promise law and order while having David Duke at events where his fellow travelers are marching while “Hailing Trump” and then killing other Americans for the lulz.

  60. 60.

    Mike J

    August 12, 2017 at 11:28 pm

    @Lyrebird: If I had to guess (and nobody is making me, but I will anyway) kinder, küche, kirche.

  61. 61.

    Frankensteinbeck

    August 12, 2017 at 11:29 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:
    This event certainly seems to have pissed off another set of previously unmotivated citizens. Hoo boy, is my internet hopping with fury.

  62. 62.

    Kay

    August 12, 2017 at 11:29 pm

    In a statement, Attorney General Jeff Sessions said that “the violence and deaths in Charlottesville strike at the heart of American law and justice. When such actions arise from racial bigotry and hatred, they betray our core values and cannot be tolerated.”

    Yeah, you’re real credible on civil rights. The man who stood there next to Donald Trump like some grinning idiot elf during all those hate rallies.

    Oh, well. There’s always the county prosecutor. Maybe he or she isn’t completely discredited.

  63. 63.

    Omnes Omnibus

    August 12, 2017 at 11:29 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: White tennis shirt should be paired with white tennis shorts. And only at the club. //WASP

  64. 64.

    Adam L Silverman

    August 12, 2017 at 11:30 pm

    @Major Major Major Major: As I’ve repeatedly remarked: off the looking glass and through the map.

  65. 65.

    Adam L Silverman

    August 12, 2017 at 11:31 pm

    @Frankensteinbeck: Yes Chris Wray was confirmed as the new Director of the FBI about ten days or so ago.

  66. 66.

    NotMax

    August 12, 2017 at 11:32 pm

    @Adam L. Silverman

    it may be old hat to mention that yes, sunlight is a disinfectant.

    Won’t eradicate the infestation on its own, it goes without saying, but far preferable to letting malevolence operate in the shadows.

  67. 67.

    Major Major Major Major

    August 12, 2017 at 11:34 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: I guess it’s as good a time as any to play video games.

  68. 68.

    Adam L Silverman

    August 12, 2017 at 11:39 pm

    @Lyrebird: The dipshit had his shield upside down. They’re crossed fasces. Not sure which group the symbol is specifically associated with. The black saltires on a white field are the new League of the South flags though.

  69. 69.

    Adam L Silverman

    August 12, 2017 at 11:40 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: And not after Labor Day!

  70. 70.

    dmsilev

    August 12, 2017 at 11:41 pm

    @Major Major Major Major: There are worse ways to spend time, that’s for sure.

    I’m not too big on the ‘blow stuff up or shoot things’ genre, but I’ll happily sink bunches of hours into building-type games.

  71. 71.

    SiubhanDuinne

    August 12, 2017 at 11:42 pm

    @Lyrebird:

    Do you know what the crossed rolling pins are supposed to stand for? Maybe I should not ask, but I do think that shedding light on these domestic terrorist groups is important.

    @Mike J:

    If I had to guess (and nobody is making me, but I will anyway) kinder, küche, kirche.

    Not a rolling pin. The guy on the left is holding his shield or whatever it is upside-down. The guy next to him has it right-side-up, and the symbol is a stylized fasces (bundle of sticks surrounding an axe).

  72. 72.

    Kay

    August 12, 2017 at 11:42 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:

    That is just wild that they dress like Trump. I was thinking about the Michigan Militia during Clinton and how they were so far underground. It was pre-internet so there weren’t all these photos but they weren’t MARCHING wearing the campaign swag of GOP candidates. It was like “oh, it’s those crazy unemployed men with the poorly-printed newsletters”. Of course later they became infamous but there was just no sense that they felt they were part of a mainstream political party even before the violence. They weren’t like “George HW Bush supporters, but in camo with explosives” They were the fringeist of the fringe. The only reason I knew about them was liberals talked about them.

  73. 73.

    Lyrebird

    August 12, 2017 at 11:42 pm

    @Mike J:

    kinder, küche, kirche

    Hey it’s a guess.

    If I had any access to Rachel Maddow’s staffers, I would want them to bring back the tapes of the then-candidate now UGH president in St Louis. Maddow rightfully highlighted his encouragement of violence towards protesters, but didn’t make much of what I found maybe even more chilling. Creep In Chief said things like, those people, they don’t contribute anything… I saw that and thought, okay Godwin’s Law and all but F&U!K that’s about as Hitlerian as anything I’ve heard a living person say on record other than david duke…

  74. 74.

    Major Major Major Major

    August 12, 2017 at 11:43 pm

    @dmsilev: Yeah, I just bought Factorio.

  75. 75.

    mouse tolliver

    August 12, 2017 at 11:44 pm

    @Phred: I’ve only seen Joy Reid pressing this issue. Everyone else is acting like the police were heroes. Just like some pretended the police didn’t cheer when Trump told them to beat up suspects.

  76. 76.

    Adam L Silverman

    August 12, 2017 at 11:49 pm

    @NotMax: Yes, but it isn’t just the disinfectant component alone. You can’t be an authoritarian if you can’t actually project authority and enforce it. If Boston goes down the way Charlottesville did, minus the open carriers as that isn’t allowed in MA, it will make things much, much harder for the President, the AG, their supporters and their enablers. I guarantee that Boston PD’s and the MA State Police’s counterterrorism and intel units will be spending the next several days going over every bit of social media and news footage of today’s events. By the time next Saturday’s rally starts they’ll have IDs on a large number of these people.

  77. 77.

    dmsilev

    August 12, 2017 at 11:51 pm

    @Major Major Major Major: Have fun! I just more-or-less finished a long play-through of that, deciding to try my hand at building a really big production operation.

    If you’ve just started, there’s a note at the beginning saying that the goal is to build and launch a rocket; doing that will end up taking several hundred thousand resources of various types, which can take a while for a normal-sized production chain to craft into a rocket. A common goal for a big factory is to hit one rocket per minute. I hit about 0.6 RPM, and am well satisfied.

  78. 78.

    efgoldman

    August 12, 2017 at 11:52 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:

    having several of these happen in short order is as much a threat to the President, his presidency, AG Sessions, and AG Sessions agenda for DOJ action.

    I’m sure your right in the medium to long term political atmosphere. In the short term, though, I’m afraid more people are going to get hurt or killed. There’s a certain overlap in the Venn diagram of ammosexuals and right wing assholes. There were lots of visible weapons today in Charlottsville. One of these times, someone is going to feel threatened enough, or amped enough, or drunk enough, actually to start shooting. Then all kinds of shit hits the fan.

  79. 79.

    Adam L Silverman

    August 12, 2017 at 11:52 pm

    @Kay: Ahhh Mike “From Michigan” Koernke. The janitor from the physical sciences building at University of Michigan.

    From news reports there were a lot of MAGA hats, as well as t-shirts and signs that mashed up NAZI sayings with support for the President. Say what you will about the fact that they’ve been able to ignore the dog whistle stuff for decades, but this type of stuff is not going to play well with the country club and nice, suburban Republicans. It’s one thing to ignore dog whistles, it’s quite another to have your nose rubbed into the fact that these folks are now the Republican President’s most ardent supporters.

    In aikido, and other Japanese martial arts, we often refer to the Zen concept of training as first polishing a mirror and then holding it up to one’s attacker/opponent. This holds a mirror up for the portion of the GOP that considers itself mainstream, respectable, and not racist or bigoted. They are going to be very discomfited by what they see in that mirror.

  80. 80.

    Lyrebird

    August 12, 2017 at 11:53 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: @Adam L Silverman: Thanks for the explanations!

    Sunlight sunlight sunlight. And I wouldn’t trust the current AG to protect anything other than his own hide, but Virginia? Plenty of problems there, like most states, but it’s called home by so many military folks as well as CIA HQ. I think Macmullin just praised Terry Mac (RawStory link) and admitted that the GOP’s been avoiding condemning racism…

    Water is wet, I know, but the more conservative Utahns and Virginians and whoevers condeming the Nazis, the better in my book.

  81. 81.

    Cheryl Rofer

    August 12, 2017 at 11:54 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: You may not know exactly which group they’re associated with, but the name “fasces” tells us what the general philosophy is.

  82. 82.

    AnotherBruce

    August 12, 2017 at 11:56 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: Hooray for the “Deep State”.

  83. 83.

    Adam L Silverman

    August 12, 2017 at 11:57 pm

    @efgoldman: Without a doubt. I’ve consistently written here that things are going to get bad in the short term. That people that don’t deserve to be hurt will be. I have not change my assessment.

  84. 84.

    Adam L Silverman

    August 12, 2017 at 11:59 pm

    @Cheryl Rofer: Can’t quite put my finger on it…//

  85. 85.

    Major Major Major Major

    August 13, 2017 at 12:01 am

    @dmsilev: Yeah, this is obviously going to take some time…

  86. 86.

    lamh36

    August 13, 2017 at 12:02 am

    there is a picture floating around twitter that is alleged to be the victim in the Charlotteville attack.

    So far I haven’t seen it confirmed by any media sources

  87. 87.

    Matt McIrvin

    August 13, 2017 at 12:03 am

    @Kay: I hear the pivot’s a-comin’!

  88. 88.

    Cheryl Rofer

    August 13, 2017 at 12:04 am

    @Adam L Silverman:

    This holds a mirror up for the portion of the GOP that considers itself mainstream, respectable, and not racist or bigoted. They are going to be very discomfited by what they see in that mirror.

    I would very much like this to be true. It would validate the way I see human beings. But I have seen so much unthinking support of Trump, no matter what, that I am waiting to see how this all plays out.

    BTW, Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions has issued a stronger statement than the President did.

  89. 89.

    Jeffro

    August 13, 2017 at 12:05 am

    @Adam L Silverman: I dunno, Adam. what I got from my RWNJ dad earlier today was some dumb ‘both sides’ crap plus ‘BLM is sending reinforcements’…my air quote “libertarian” brother was remarkably silent all day…

    They are nowhere close to taking ownership of what they have supported up to this point.

  90. 90.

    The Other Bob

    August 13, 2017 at 12:05 am

    Something I have been thinking about lately…

    If your church has a Europianized depiction of Jesus on its walls, your church is part of the white supremacist problem.

  91. 91.

    Cheryl Rofer

    August 13, 2017 at 12:06 am

    JUST IN: Jeff Sessions statement on opening an investigation into today’s violence in Charlottesville: pic.twitter.com/yTfvANgBao

    — Dominic Holden (@dominicholden) August 13, 2017

  92. 92.

    AnotherBruce

    August 13, 2017 at 12:09 am

    @Cheryl Rofer: Cruz issued a stonger statement. Of course he’s done this because he’s smarter than Trump. Which is admittedly a low bar.

  93. 93.

    efgoldman

    August 13, 2017 at 12:09 am

    @Cheryl Rofer:

    Jeff Sessions statement on opening an investigation into today’s violence in Charlottesville

    Who wrote that and what did they do with Evil Leprechaun, tie him up in the basement?

  94. 94.

    burnspbesq

    August 13, 2017 at 12:10 am

    @lamh36:

    Sessions wants justice to prevail–his idea of justice, which bears no resemblance to yours or mine.

  95. 95.

    Adam L Silverman

    August 13, 2017 at 12:10 am

    @Cheryl Rofer: It isn’t a given, but their moment of truth and self discovery is coming. They will have to decide to stand up as Americans or be recognized for who they are on the basis of their implicit and/or explicit support of what is happening.

    Also, it’s a Zen concept filtered through centuries of Japanese martial traditions. It’s not supposed to actually make sense, just sound impressive.//

  96. 96.

    dmsilev

    August 13, 2017 at 12:10 am

    @Cheryl Rofer:

    BTW, Attorney General Jefferson Beauregard Sessions has issued a stronger statement than the President did.

    That’s a pretty low bar to clear.

  97. 97.

    Adam L Silverman

    August 13, 2017 at 12:12 am

    @Jeffro: Next time you’re at your dad’s, when he’s out of the room, set the parental controls to block Fox News on his cable system. When he asks about him tell him the provider dropped it because of a dispute over concession fees. After a couple of months he should start to return to normal.

    And I wish I was kidding here.

  98. 98.

    Matt McIrvin

    August 13, 2017 at 12:12 am

    @Lyrebird: Some people on twitter say they’re fasces. Shouldn’t that look more like a bundle of rods than a rolling pin?

  99. 99.

    Adam L Silverman

    August 13, 2017 at 12:13 am

    @efgoldman: It wasn’t his spokeswoman. She’s morally ugly down to the DNA.

  100. 100.

    gene108

    August 13, 2017 at 12:14 am

    @Phred:

    From what I’ve read, last night the police allowed the Tiki Nazis a free hand to attack those at the Thomas Jefferson statue. Why???

    It is the right, proper, and traditional order of things in America for white people, who declare whites are superior, to be able to beat the shit out of people who disagree under the cover of law.

    White supremacists only felt the pain after the 1960’s, when the Feds started cracking down on them. And it took the Feds decades, well into the 1980’s and early 1990’s, to take the ability of white supremacists to act with impunity away.

    There’s a dark underbelly to this country that was put in the corner and realized if they stepped out things would go badly for them, until Trump came along.

  101. 101.

    AnotherBruce

    August 13, 2017 at 12:14 am

    @Adam L Silverman: When you are talking about real Blood and Soil Nazis, there’s not a lot of safe space or ambiguity. You have to take a stand. I wonder when the Poltroon in Chief will come to this realization. Also, I’m not confident he will.

  102. 102.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    August 13, 2017 at 12:14 am

    Ken Schwencke‏ @ schwanksta 3h3 hours ago
    This is the White House’s only response to my asking three times if the President condemns white supremacists
    Hi Ken- On background, the President condemns all acts of violence

  103. 103.

    lamh36

    August 13, 2017 at 12:15 am

    I want more of this to happen…time for folks with loud platforms who can certainly afford to more than some poor line worker or broke student, to speak up!

    @rebilasphoto
    #Raiders running back Marshawn Lynch sits during the national anthem prior to #NFL game against Cardinals. @usatodaysports @azcentral
    https://twitter.com/rebilasphoto/status/896574923241537538

  104. 104.

    dmsilev

    August 13, 2017 at 12:17 am

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: ‘on background’? So, their position is ‘We condemn violence, but don’t quote me on that’?

  105. 105.

    Adam L Silverman

    August 13, 2017 at 12:20 am

    @Matt McIrvin: They’re stylized outlined fasces. If you look at the shield to the left of the alleged murderer you can clearly see that’s what they are.

  106. 106.

    Matt McIrvin

    August 13, 2017 at 12:21 am

    @Lyrebird:

    Water is wet, I know, but the more conservative Utahns and Virginians and whoevers condeming the Nazis, the better in my book.

    You know who gets zero credit, though? Nigel Farage. That man just had the gall to cluck about the sadness of Nazi salutes in America. You don’t want them, how about not helping to bring them here?

  107. 107.

    Matt McIrvin

    August 13, 2017 at 12:23 am

    @Adam L Silverman: I had missed the one that was right side up, with the axe blade.

  108. 108.

    Kay

    August 13, 2017 at 12:23 am

    @Matt McIrvin:

    Just keep whistling in the dark! I mean, come on. Every day is stuff like this:

    Sam Clovis, Donald Trump’s pick to be chief scientist for the Department of Agriculture, pushed unfounded theories about then-President Barack Obama’s upbringing and called then-Attorney General Eric Holder a “racist black,” a CNN KFile review of Clovis’s writings and radio broadcasts during 2012 and 2013 has found.
    Clovis was a conservative radio host and political activist in Iowa before gaining national attention as one of the more vocal supporters of Trump during the presidential campaign. His nomination to head science at the USDA requires Senate confirmation

    He embraces these people. He finds them and hires them. It doesn’t matter what the job is- he’ll just slot them in anywhere. We’re lucky Clovis isn’t the attorney general. Was probably on the short list.

    Ivanka Trump could be the nicest, smartest person in the world and she was never going to save this presidency. This is what Donald Trump is. He doesn’t hide it. He’s never hidden it. If Obama had been an absolute disaster as a human being no one would say “well, his mother in law lives in the White House and she seems nice so she’ll probably change him into a completely different person”. It’s just wacky.

  109. 109.

    Adam L Silverman

    August 13, 2017 at 12:23 am

    @AnotherBruce: They already have. Not making a clear distinction is sending a clear message. Certainly the folks at the Daily Stormer received a clear message:

    While the rest of you are busy dissing the Presidents remarks at least one group is praising it Sure it's the Neo-Nazis but they're lovin it pic.twitter.com/KhuxLlbcm6

    — The Declaration (@DeclarationUSA) August 13, 2017

  110. 110.

    sharl

    August 13, 2017 at 12:23 am

    @lamh36: Hmm, maybe an NFL team will rethink matters regarding Colin Kaepernick and sign hi…
    Bwahahaha, I crack myself up sometimes.

  111. 111.

    Mike J

    August 13, 2017 at 12:25 am

    @dmsilev:

    I’m not too big on the ‘blow stuff up or shoot things’ genre, but I’ll happily sink bunches of hours into building-type games.

    Waiting impatiently for Stardew Valley multiplayer. We can start a balloon-juice commune.

  112. 112.

    Adam L Silverman

    August 13, 2017 at 12:25 am

    @Matt McIrvin: No worries. It’s been a rough week for everyone. But the next time we’ll have to put a formal reprimand in your file.//

  113. 113.

    Adam L Silverman

    August 13, 2017 at 12:26 am

    @Kay: Clovis is part of AG Sessions circle. He also, from reporting, had a hand in connecting Carter Page with the campaign via Sessions.

  114. 114.

    Matt McIrvin

    August 13, 2017 at 12:27 am

    @Adam L Silverman: I may have to repeat Murderous Idiot Iconography 101.

  115. 115.

    ? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?

    August 13, 2017 at 12:29 am

    @Cheryl Rofer:
    Mikhail Gorbachev will always be the real hero who peacefully ended the cold war to me. For the USSR, his reforms were too little too late. Maybe 20 years earlier. And it is incredible that non-violence worked back then. I think it’s safe to say that without the backing of the feds, things could have turned even uglier then they were.

  116. 116.

    Adam L Silverman

    August 13, 2017 at 12:30 am

    @Matt McIrvin: We have an online, remedial course. You can do it in a weekend.

  117. 117.

    Matt McIrvin

    August 13, 2017 at 12:31 am

    @Kay: What gets me is that anyone could have watched Trump’s campaign rallies as depicted on TV and known that his election would egg the Nazis and Grand Imperial Kleagles into running riot, but everyone in the Republican Party is acting like this is some kind of surprise.

  118. 118.

    lamh36

    August 13, 2017 at 12:33 am

    @Adam L Silverman: Right…

    I get that with family sometimes it easier to not confront, but I just can’t accept that. I’m sure the issues that need to be spoken about is different if you’re white than for my predominantly Black family. Overt racism, antisemitic rhetoric, etc, is just not something I have to deal with at family gathering or when I visit my mom or my old uncle.

    I’m a firm believer that people will be who they will be, but I’ll be darned if I won’t speak up and speak out to friends and esp family about such things. Even if I wouldn’t change one thing with that speaking up, to do nothing, just to “keep the peace” within the family…no…nope. I am perfectly willing to never be in the presence of family members who refuse to change, and I have no trouble letting my family member know why.

    It’s about time for folks to stop just saying “well what can you do…”

    @cmclymer
    1/ Sooo… I’m gonna be blunt about this. I was born and raised in the South, my family is from the South, and we need to get real. (thread)

    4/ I’m serious. Good on you for not displaying a Confederate flag. I’m glad you didn’t vote for Trump. Congratulations on the bare minimum.

    5/ But our neighbors and our friends and our family who do these things without pushback from us will continue to do them.

    6/ Those racist assholes with torchlights marching on UVA’s campus are your nextdoor neighbors, friends, and relatives.

    8/ How many times have you heard your racist uncle rant at the Thanksgiving table about “illegals stealing our jobs”? Be honest.

    9// How many times has your father or mother or boss or coworker talked in racist code around you and you didn’t call them out? Be honest.

    https://twitter.com/cmclymer/status/896583295856726016

  119. 119.

    ??‍? Martin

    August 13, 2017 at 12:35 am

    Virtually all millennials I interact with (several thousand – large sample) are like this. Gives me great confidence for the future.

  120. 120.

    West of the Rockies (been a while)

    August 13, 2017 at 12:36 am

    @sharl:

    Did he leave the 49ers or did they cut him? Does the organization deserve a little extra blame for CK being unemployed? Anyone have any thoughts?

  121. 121.

    lamh36

    August 13, 2017 at 12:36 am

    Speaking to family…matters…s

    @gkfahnbulleh
    He told his mom he was a NAZI she said, be a peaceful NAZI. @kushkandy95 @Kennymack1971 @cmclymer @sfhater @jsavite .@VanJones68
    https://twitter.com/gkfahnbulleh/status/896586054941016064

  122. 122.

    ? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?

    August 13, 2017 at 12:37 am

    Any recent updates on the police helicopter crash?

  123. 123.

    Lizzy L

    August 13, 2017 at 12:37 am

    @Matt McIrvin:

    but everyone in the Republican Party is acting like this is some kind of surprise.

    I believe the relevant word here is “acting.”

  124. 124.

    West of the Rockies (been a while)

    August 13, 2017 at 12:38 am

    @??‍? Martin:

    Young people of several races in that brave circle. I’m glad to see it.

  125. 125.

    Patricia Kayden

    August 13, 2017 at 12:38 am

    @Ohio Mom: What will follow them around? If they’re not arrested and prosecuted for violence what difference does that make?

  126. 126.

    ? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?

    August 13, 2017 at 12:40 am

    @lamh36:
    It’s a rare condition, this day and age
    To read any good news on the newspaper page

  127. 127.

    Matt McIrvin

    August 13, 2017 at 12:40 am

    @??‍? Martin: There’s a lot of little elementary-school, middle and high-school age white kids who are learning racist bullying from Trump. Another reason to smack this down hard.

    On the other hand, they are part of a cohort even more diverse than the millennials, so they’re going to get pushback.

  128. 128.

    Adam L Silverman

    August 13, 2017 at 12:40 am

    @lamh36: No arguments here. A test is coming for many white people. We will see where they line up once and for all.

  129. 129.

    ? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?

    August 13, 2017 at 12:41 am

    @Patricia Kayden:
    It will make them unemployable social pariahs

  130. 130.

    Bobby Thomson

    August 13, 2017 at 12:41 am

    @Phred: I have to assume they chose this location because they knew the local cops would be sympathetic.

  131. 131.

    Adam L Silverman

    August 13, 2017 at 12:42 am

    It's a small world:https://t.co/0ZAeeyGfEQ pic.twitter.com/TCQ0jbknzM

    — digby (@digby56) August 13, 2017

  132. 132.

    ruemara

    August 13, 2017 at 12:42 am

    @Matt McIrvin: It’s as fake as their cries of Fake News. You’re watching people who just hate looking at themselves in a mirror.

  133. 133.

    AnotherBruce

    August 13, 2017 at 12:45 am

    @Adam L Silverman: Fuck Russia, we have to hang this around his neck. Repeat after me, Trump supports Nazi’s, Trump supports Nazis.

    Also too, we should hang Russia around his neck. He clearly hates the United States.

  134. 134.

    Patricia Kayden

    August 13, 2017 at 12:50 am

    @? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?: How do you know that? There are loads of White Supremacists/alt-right folks who are gainfully employed. All of the hundreds who turned up to riot in Charlottesville are unemployable?

    I think you underestimate how pervasive the support for racism is in the US. This is how we ended up with Trump.

  135. 135.

    Adam L Silverman

    August 13, 2017 at 12:51 am

    @AnotherBruce:

    Fuck Russia

    . Aren’t we supposed to wait till the 3rd date? I mean I know my social life is a mess, but that seems to have been the rule of thumb that last time I was dating.

  136. 136.

    Amir Khalid

    August 13, 2017 at 12:52 am

    @Patricia Kayden:
    “Shun the Nazi! SHUN HIM!”
    It does work on some people.

  137. 137.

    sharl

    August 13, 2017 at 12:52 am

    @West of the Rockies (been a while): Earlier this year Colin Kaepernick opted out of the second year of his contract with the 49ers to become a free agent, so that was his choice.

    I’m not normally a sports guy (to put it mildly), but lamh36’s comment reminded me that lately I’ve been hearing a lot of chatter regarding Kaepernick’s inability to land a contract with a team, and a lot of reporters and pundits/analysts who follow the NFL are rather suspicious of NFL claims that it isn’t related to his now notorious pre-game protest.

  138. 138.

    West of the Rockies (been a while)

    August 13, 2017 at 12:53 am

    @Adam L Silverman:

    Some will reveal themselves to be active racist assholes. Some will reveal themselves to be passive racists who won’t denounce white racism when they see it and will continue to blindly or knowingly accept unearned “white privilege”.

    Others will denounce and (perhaps blindly) benefit from privilege.

    Still others will denounce and strive for a “fair trade” approach to things.

    Some fools, such as Omarosa and Katrina Pierson, will ignore shit in the pursuit of power and money and fame. A hell of a lot fewer of them, but it reveals that assholes come in all colors, creeds, and sexes.

  139. 139.

    GregB

    August 13, 2017 at 12:53 am

    I hit the fever swamps in Twitter. This is all a cock-up from George Soros doncha know?

    Plus the driver was really a Bernie guy and a Trump hater too.

    Plus melon headed fascist and full potato sack impersonator Alex Jones is all over this false flag story too.

    Who could have predicted the world would spin out of control with a rage tweeter with a God complex and a shithouse societal engineer with conjoined liver running the fucking show?

  140. 140.

    West of the Rockies (been a while)

    August 13, 2017 at 12:56 am

    @Patricia Kayden:

    Excellent point. There are racist doctors, cops, professors, house painters, etc. Having a job is no inoculation from idiocy.

  141. 141.

    Another Scott

    August 13, 2017 at 12:58 am

    @Kay: I don’t know about the Commonwealth’s Attorney’s for the City of Charlottesville, but our state Attorney General – Mark Herring – is a great public servant. And isn’t afraid to speak clearly about what happened:

    Mark Herring‏ Verified account @MarkHerringVA

    The violence, chaos, and apparent loss of life in Charlottesville is not the fault of “many sides.” It is racists and white supremacists.

    1:30 PM – 12 Aug 2017

    If there’s a reason for the state to get involved, Herring will jump in with both feet to prosecute these monsters.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  142. 142.

    ? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?

    August 13, 2017 at 1:00 am

    @Patricia Kayden:
    After what happened today, I am open to second amendment solutions if peaceful ones don’t pan out

    /s

  143. 143.

    West of the Rockies (been a while)

    August 13, 2017 at 1:01 am

    @sharl:

    I think the Rams would do well to sign him. Their QB is young and not very impressive. L.A. has a significant black population and a sordid history of racism; maybe such a hire would be another small step towards cohesion?

  144. 144.

    sharl

    August 13, 2017 at 1:03 am

    @West of the Rockies (been a while), @sharl:

    Here’s a recent show I half-listened to that discussed the Kaepernick situation. There are further links at that post, and also a lot of commenters with the usual sports fan disagreements regarding NFL team owner motivations and competencies, Kaepernick’s merits as a player, the meaning of patriotism vs. standing for the Pledge, etc.

  145. 145.

    sharl

    August 13, 2017 at 1:07 am

    @West of the Rockies (been a while): Not being a sports person, I’m in no position to offer an informed opinion. But presuming he is NFL-worthy, this would be an opportune moment for someone to pick him up on at least a short-term contract, with (temporarily) reduced criticism, which is always a consideration for corporate suits, even absent legitimate concerns about our national tradition of racism.

  146. 146.

    Another Scott

    August 13, 2017 at 1:09 am

    @The Other Bob: That’s probably too broad a brush.

    Zeinab Badawi of the BBC had a fascinating series on Africa last week or so. In one episode she was talking with some prelate or bishop or something of some ancient Christian church in Ethiopia. She was asking what he thought about some of the pictures of Jesus showing him as white while some of the newer pictures showed him having African hair and dark skin – how did the locals relate to that? He said he didn’t see a problem with it, but he himself always felt that Jesus was a Jew so he believed that he should be portrayed as “white”.

    Religion as we see it today is very complex and probably can’t be explained by looking just at what some English or French or German guys did a few hundred years ago.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  147. 147.

    West of the Rockies (been a while)

    August 13, 2017 at 1:10 am

    @sharl:

    I concur.

  148. 148.

    Brachiator

    August 13, 2017 at 1:40 am

    @scav:

    Some photos I just ran across for your India anniversary sidenote.

    Very late reply. Thanks very much.

  149. 149.

    Brachiator

    August 13, 2017 at 1:45 am

    @Another Scott:

    In one episode she was talking with some prelate or bishop or something of some ancient Christian church in Ethiopia. She was asking what he thought about some of the pictures of Jesus showing him as white while some of the newer pictures showed him having African hair and dark skin – how did the locals relate to that?

    Was the interview and response in English?

    I thought that some of the early artistic depictions of the Black Jesus came out of the ancient Ethiopian church tradition, so I find this statement about Jesus to be a bit puzzling.

  150. 150.

    sm*t cl*de

    August 13, 2017 at 4:58 am

    @Cheryl Rofer:

    I saw “The Singing Revolution” again a few weeks ago. It’s about the nonviolent protests that led to Estonia’s leaving the Soviet Union and precipitating its breakup

    There is the theory that non-violent traditional choral music was how the Baltic states convinced Gorbachev that allowing them autonomy was better than a violent re-assertion of Russian power… and there is another theory (which is mine), which is that it was all achieved by Vana Tallinn, and Russians drinking it, and thinking “People who drink this stuff must be hardcore and really not worth fighting with.”

    Also (in the case of Latvia) Riga Black Balsam.

  151. 151.

    SiubhanDuinne

    August 13, 2017 at 5:53 am

    @sm*t cl*de:

    and there is another theory (which is mine)

    Heh.

  152. 152.

    Cheryl Rofer

    August 13, 2017 at 8:12 am

    @sm*t cl*de: Or the herbal stuff my Kazakh colleagues gave me. Can’t recall the name, kept the bottle. But it’s in a higher cabinet I’m too lazy to access.

  153. 153.

    Cheryl Rofer

    August 13, 2017 at 8:16 am

    @? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?: There were a number of factors. Mikhail Gorbachev’s decency and humanity was the biggest. But we can’t forget George H. W. Bush’s (and his team’s) capable handling of things from this side, particularly now when our president is screaming insults at a third-rate dictator.

  154. 154.

    debbie

    August 13, 2017 at 8:36 am

    @Kay:

    He embraces these people. He finds them and hires them. It

    And they him. Trump’s their useful idiot.

  155. 155.

    GHayduke

    August 13, 2017 at 9:20 am

    @debbie: Jefferson

  156. 156.

    Jim

    August 13, 2017 at 10:21 am

    Amen.

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