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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: 4, Insightful) by idiot_king on Sunday June 24 2018, @11:22PM
I hate that I have to explain this to you, but here you go:
"Nobody bats an eye" is false. You want proof? This kind of shit right here, exactly like this.
KKK rallies are "batting an eye." Electing Trump is "batting an eye." They are America's equivalent of class warfare, which is construed in the Americas through the socially constructed concept of race. (I also note here that it is increasingly becoming the case in Europe, unfortunately. Whiteness is a new concept which was considered as a catch-all reaction against coloredness (i.e., red, brown, black, yellow, etc) which were considered, in the Americas, as the mark of lower classes - black being the lowest).
Whites fear losing power - as do any group in power (understandably). That's in part why Trump was elected. Charlottesville, police murders of PoC, the neo-Gestapo treatment of undocumented workers (and their children), and the rise of racist incidents are all "batting an eye," if you think that "batting an eye" is an appropriate euphemism for "the vengeful re-emergence of extreme White Identity politics in the 21st century."
The fact that "White Identity" still even exists as a power-pole around which people can congregate is the indicator of exactly why the counter-rallies are needed. The more allies we have, the safer we are, the sooner we get rid of racist figureheads like Trump, the sooner we can actually move forward as a society into something that even remotely resembles "equality."