BREAKING: Car plows into dozens of protesters at far-right rally, extremely serious injuries

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  1. PARTIZAN1

    PARTIZAN1 Well-Known Member

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    I had no ancestors slaughtering Jews. I must assume that your ancestors slaughtered Ukrainians in the Great Famine.
     
  2. Ronstar

    Ronstar Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    you think the Nazis were not Fascists?

    LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
     
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    in practicality, yes.

    starting with the immigration act of 1965:

    The 1965 Act marked a change from past U.S. policy which had discriminated against non-northern Europeans. In removing racial and national barriers the Act would significantly, and unintentionally, alter the demographic mix in the U.S.


    i do not believe it was unintentional.
     
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  4. Empress

    Empress Well-Known Member

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    Ron seems to be trying to argue a guilt-by-association fallacy.
     
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    TRFjr Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    probably because it hasn't been confirmed and unsubstantiated rumors can put people in harm way
    that is why I'm waiting for an official statement on who the driver was
     
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  6. Bluesguy

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    I certainly do not align with white supremacist AT ALL. Condemn their message totally. But they DO HAVE A RIGHT to march and express their view no matter how warped.

    I also condemn counter protesters who go to a march to incite violence and create a riot. They do NOT have a right to disrupt a permitted march because they disagree with the message of the march.

    Let the white supremacist march and then hold your own march to counter their view. An even bigger march.
     
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    Bigotry is anything that marginalises another
     
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    There's several things going on: Firstly there is an element of radicals within the Democratic Party that want to ethnically topple this country so as to take it over by demographic replacement as the large majority of third world arrivals vote liberal. It's also a way of getting rid of a culture that is antithetical to leftist tenets, to rip apart its institutions and replace it with something in the left's image, and to relegate the founding majority to the fringes of society.
     
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    On what account are these protesters white supremacists, especially exclusively so?
     
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    If that's the case, then you wouldn't want whites demographically displaced in the countries they founded. If that's not marginalization, what is?

    And btw, your definition has nothing to do with the definition of bigotry in the dictionary.
     
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    Well, my bad.... it appears WAPO has posted the following:

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/amph...5fb636-7f13-11e7-83c7-5bd5460f0d7e_story.html

    The car is registered to 20-year-old James Alex Fields of Ohio, according to vehicle registration records reviewed by The Washington Post. Albemarle-Charlottesville Regional Jail Superintendent Martin Kumer told The Post that a man with the same name and age was booked Saturday on suspicion of second-degree murder, malicious wounding, failure to stop for an accident involving a death, and hit and run. Kumer said Fields is being held without bail.
     
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    He's got 2 gems close at his side - The slob Bannon, an alt-right proponent, and the obnoxious Islamophobe Sebastian Gorka - both are near and dear to the Donald.
     
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    you do know the best description of fascism is nationalist socialism
     
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    I see the attack as being in the form of quotas or special bonus points to other groups just because of who they are.

    Then there's this:

     
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    no, National Socialism was the German form of Fascism.
     
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    "Nation" derives from the Latin natio (to be born). A nation was a people born in a specific land, Spaniards from Spain, Germans from Germany, Italians from Italy, and so on. The US (excepting Native Americans) has a transplanted population, they came from somewhere else, are not natives of the US.

    "Heritage" refers to ancestry and there are non-native to the US with varying heritage in this country, some can trace back ancestors to the original founding, others may be "homesteaders" in various westward expansions, some just are the second generation or may have arrived more recently.

    National Identity actually is a collection of shared cultural features of a people with a common land, in most of the world this takes millenia, certainly several centuries to develop. National Identity manifests itself in shared cultural traits, architecture, ways of dress, language, diet, music and forms of artistic expression, sports, religious practices... all of them tied to the land where a people live.

    Due to the mobility of people in the US, where one generation rarely finds it's successors in the same community, due to the relatively short history of this country, and as a consequence of the transplated population arriving with a rich cultural identity from their place of origin, there is very little National Identity. What could be said to be the features of all people in the US? Would that be listening to jazz, playing basketball and American Football, drinking the Martini, wearing "cowboy" hats, eating Boston baked beans and Hot Dogs, celebrating Thanksgiving, building "skyscrapers"... These definitely are forms of uniquely American cultural expression, but they aren't as shared as bullfights, chorizo and the guitar in Spain, cricket and tea in Britain, bagpipes in Scotland or beer in Germany.

    As a still emerging nation the US has yet to develop an adequate national identity, in due course they will get there, they already have some elements, but it takes millenia.
     
  17. Steve N

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    Fair enough. I wasn't told by mod my post was deleted, only by a football spiking member of this board.
     
  18. PARTIZAN1

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    The racism if the South had to do with Southerners not Democrats or Republicans. Southerners were exclusively Democrats because they hated Lincoln the Republican and Southeners remained Democrats until Johnson pushed through the Civil Rights bill. Since Johnson was a Democrat and all Democrats except Northern Democrats voted for the bill the south as LBJ predicted became Republican and still is. You need to view history with honest eyes not partisan eyes.
     
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    So what are you saying? That the wholesale illegal marches and violence to shut down free speech should be tolerated?
     
  20. Ronstar

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    you can't prove the anti-Nazis initiated all the violence.

    Ive seen videos showing the opposite
     
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    is he a white nationalist? I'm going to assume not because if he was the Washington post would have written he was and because it is second degree murder it wasn't premeditated he didn't set out to run people over
     
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    Where? Racist *******s, that's where, and I don't have prove jackshit to you. :nana:
     
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    I have no idea who the person is or what they believed. It does appear to me from the reports the WS marchers had a permit and were marching AS THEY ARE ALLOWED BY LAW. You may not like their message but they a right have to demonstrate and voice their views just like anyone else. It also appears from the reports I have heard, FOX, CNN, MSNBC that the anti WS groups went there with the intention to riot and break up the march and demonstration. That is wrong to incite such violence and disruption just because you do not like the message. But then the left tends to riot and destroy things even when it is their march and protest.
     
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    So anyways. The initial reports of the driver were apparently wrong.

    It wasn't Joel VanGheluwe.

    Once again 4chan and /r/T_D are NOT reliable sources as they likely caused this person a great deal of harm by reporting him as the suspect.
     
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    Did you know that Robert E. Lee had a black brother?
    https://www.flickr.com/photos/vieilles_annonces/4849920549/in/album-72157623915774564/lightbox/
    December 20, 1924
     

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