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DC to Host ‘White Civil Rights’ Rally One Year After Charlottesville — Outside the White House

posted by janrinok on Sunday June 24 2018, @05:52PM   Printer-friendly
from the fetch-the-popcorn dept.

aristarchus writes:

From Raw Story

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."

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by khallow on Monday June 25 2018, @12:04AM (6 children)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Monday June 25 2018, @12:04AM (#697829) Journal

    Perhaps they could be shown that they're blaming the wrong people, and that the rich should not be worshipped. Gilded Age 2.0 has gotten pretty bad. There should be appropriate sermons out there, perhaps about the seven deadly sins, especially greed. Bible thumping is language they understand.

    Perhaps you could try to understand those whom you attempt to criticize? Extravagant displays of condescension don't tend to be very persuasive.

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  • (Score: 2, Disagree) by Azuma Hazuki on Monday June 25 2018, @05:46AM (5 children)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Monday June 25 2018, @05:46AM (#697980) Journal

    Tone trolling is the first last and only refuge of the scoundrel. We "understand" these folks plenty well; they're mostly manipulated catspaws for the elite playing divide-and-conquer with the populace.

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    • (Score: 2, Insightful) by khallow on Monday June 25 2018, @10:09AM (4 children)

      by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Monday June 25 2018, @10:09AM (#698055) Journal

      Tone trolling is the first last and only refuge of the scoundrel.

      And yet when we actually read the post in question, we get such insights as "rich should not be worshipped" (who does that again?) and "Bible thumping is language they understand." (Even though a fair portion of the alt-right protestors in question would not be strongly Christian or even agnostic/positive atheist.) In other words, the extravagant condescension of which I spoke.

      It's no different than some brutal 19th century slave master speaking of his slaves: "They can only understand the whip." Or some alt-righter advocating the nuking of particular meteorites in Mecca, because that will somehow stop the unstoppable.

      Or when a certain someone (that would be you) asks pointless rhetorical questions [soylentnews.org] like "Since when were you capable of understanding the concepts of either guilt or friendship?"

      "The scoundrel" has more refuges than you first suppose.

      • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 25 2018, @11:42PM (3 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 25 2018, @11:42PM (#698448)

        Conservative and Neoliberal apologists worship rich people. "They make jobs!" and "They're successful cause they're smarter!"

        What, you been living under a rock? I wouldn't be surprised... What you're missing is the actual persecution. You can't equate "white oppression" with slavery, it really just rams the point home about how clueless and biased you are.

        Was Lincoln the bad guy in your worldview? Should we have kept slavery instead of persecuting those poor slave owners and taking their property??

        • (Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday June 26 2018, @03:58AM (2 children)

          by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday June 26 2018, @03:58AM (#698592) Journal

          Conservative and Neoliberal apologists worship rich people.

          Good example of the stupid straw men and stereotypes that are created. Too bad you were trying to be serious.

          "They make jobs!" and "They're successful cause they're smarter!"

          Not much in the way of worship there. I was expecting an altar and a fancy religious service, not merely a "They don't join in the two minute hate!"

          What, you been living under a rock? I wouldn't be surprised... What you're missing is the actual persecution. You can't equate "white oppression" with slavery, it really just rams the point home about how clueless and biased you are.

          Was there a problem with what I said? Or are you just stupid? Funny how you can rant so much without saying anything.

          Was Lincoln the bad guy in your worldview? Should we have kept slavery instead of persecuting those poor slave owners and taking their property??

          And now you go completely non sequitur. Since those last few questions are completely irrelevant to anything I've said in this thread (or elsewhere for that matter), I'm not wasting my time answering them. Instead, I'll point out that your post shows that you're a part of the problem. People who are trying to be fair and understanding of others would not have posted your above bullshit.

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 26 2018, @07:30AM (1 child)

            by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 26 2018, @07:30AM (#698633)

            khallow, I am rich. Suck my cock, and you might be rich, as well.

            Or more likely, khallow, suck my Koch corporation directives, and deploy them on the SoylentNews and any number of other "libertarian friendly" websites, and we will give you a nickel. True, even though one of us is dying and no amount of money can save him since the Church has renounced indulgences, and the Kock Bros. are Heretics.

            • (Score: 1) by khallow on Tuesday June 26 2018, @01:04PM

              by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday June 26 2018, @01:04PM (#698718) Journal
              What did you think you were doing with that post? You can't even come up with an insult that stings. Life must be hard, if you go to pieces so quickly over a little disagreement and can't understand people well enough to even insult them effectively.