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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, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 25 2018, @12:39AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 25 2018, @12:39AM (#697854)

    You can come up with whatever you scaredy-racist ass wants to. Why cannot racists read? Again, this is why there cannot be white supremacy, white folks too dumb! The non-hispanic white is 62%, like, you know, a supermajority?

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 25 2018, @12:52AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 25 2018, @12:52AM (#697863)

    Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics

    Demographics are just a statistic and they can be spun anyway you want.
    However neither the OP nor the census bureau gets this right, because literally it's a "no-true scottsman" argument in disguise.

    How white is white enough? If a person migrates from South Africa, do they tick the African American box, or the white box, what if they're the couple in Die Antwoord?

    Race is just a farce, the entirety of differences amount to less than 1.5MB of genetic data between any 2 people, no matter how "diverse" their pedigree.
    The part of your DNA that codes for skin, hair and eye color is around 10kb.

    Get a razor, shave exactly 1mm of skin, everyone is suddenly the same color.
    https://training.seer.cancer.gov/melanoma/anatomy/layers.html [cancer.gov]