Didn’t we predict this would happen. They’re coming for your history and nothing is safe from being declared bad and worthy of destruction.
Yes, but there’s a difference.
This will never happen.
This pastor can go gently caress himself.
People are acting like they haven’t been saying this shit for years already.
This rhetoric is as old, if not older than, the Black Panther Party. Treating it like something new just means you’ve been ignorant up til now.
People are acting like white nationalists are just now popping back into existence, as if their dumb marches hadn’t been going on the entire time, and that this is an emergency and we must give social license to left-wing vigilantes to attack people outside of the law. Though in fairness, the confederate statues hadn’t gone anywhere for years, and now they’re being removed in many places.
I’d like to see you and rtrixie make a bet on this.
You’re inaccurate, but only by half.
Left-wingers and American Liberals have been talking about white nationalism, white nationalists, and far-right extremists for years now. They were talking about it all through the Bush and Obama presidencies, as were the FBI and Department of Justice.
They’ve just grown and gotten so big recently that now the right-wing can’t ignore them anymore, so now they have to acknowledge it as well.
I lived through the Bush and Obama presidencies, and the left-wingers and liberals I knew were not doing this “OMG NAZZIS!!” thing at this level. Obviously, some of them ran around calling GWB a Fascist, which is part of why I don’t treat their outrage on this as serious, but it wasn’t lit up like this. There are a bunch of things they won’t actually do that they’d need to do for me to respect their outrage again.