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The National Park Service has approved an application for a year anniversary commemoration of Charlottesville's violent white supremacist rally to be held in Washington, DC.
DC's WUSA9 reported that NPS approved the application but has not yet issued permits for the rally set to be held at Lafayette Square, a seven-acre park just north of the White House. The event is to be organized by Jason Kessler, the organizer of the "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville where 32-year-old Heather Heyer was hit and killed by an alleged white supremacist.
"This year we have a new purpose," Kessler said, discussing the upcoming rally. "That's to talk about the civil rights abuse that happened in Charlottesville, Virginia last year."
Kessler claimed it wasn't his fault that "that stuff happened," and said that in the months since the rally ostensibly intended to "defend" a statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee, "white civil rights" have taken a hit.
"We're not able to peacefully assemble. We're not able to speak," he told WUSA. "I keep telling people if your right to rally and your right to protest means that someone else's life might be in danger, then it is no longer free speech but it is hate speech."
(Score: 2) by Arik on Sunday June 24 2018, @09:58PM (4 children)
You realize that those 'rednecks' you hate are poor too?
They probably work a lot harder than you ever have and still make little, if any, more.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 24 2018, @10:08PM
Cuase that is germane to the point how again? You assume hate of rednecks, but it is just hate of shitty racist rednecks who vote against their own interests.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday June 25 2018, @05:19AM (2 children)
Nice assumption there. You know what they say about assuming, you make an ass out of U and some Chinese guy named Ming who has nothing to do with this and doesn't deserve your abuse. The AC below you answered for me: I don't hate those people, I just wish they'd wake the fuck up and realize they're being manipulated.
Odd how you jump to that conclusion so quickly. Says more about what you think of people with differing viewpoints than anything.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 25 2018, @06:40PM (1 child)
I'm sure they'd say the same thing about you. Everyone has their own priorities and point of view... It also helps your argument when you act like a decent, rational, and mature person rather than alternately dehumanizing and infantilizing people you disagree with. Arrogance and ad-hominem at every turn will only make them get further entrenched.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday June 26 2018, @07:53AM
Yes, everyone has their own opinion and priorities and point of view...and these are worth more or less according to how well they mesh with observable reality.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...