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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: 3, Touché) by khallow on Monday June 25 2018, @01:36AM

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Monday June 25 2018, @01:36AM (#697886) Journal

    Right now whites get preferential treatment when it comes to civil rights. So shut the fuck up with your asinine suggestion that "all get to have them." Your unstated premise, that equality of treatment is a current reality, is a lie born of your desire to hate. DIAF, you racist fuck.

    Not from you.

    Whites have no fucking need to have a civil rights rally, because they can, for example, walk through a random neighborhood at any random time and not have to worry that the cops will be called on them for being black. Or, they can drive to work in a nice car without worrying about getting pulled over on a pretext.

    Note the typical pattern of racism here. It's fine to discriminate against whites because of some flimsy excuse - less harassment by police. Well, isn't the harassment by police based on the very similar flimsy excuse that ethnic minorities commit more crime than their white brethren? You're just as racist, but it's fine in your viewpoint because you're merely racist against an approved out-group. What racist acts any different?

    So given this brazen display of bigotry and racism, why shouldn't whites use the same tools that other ethnic groups use? Is it their problem that you can't take in turn what you dish out?

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