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An article at vice.com reports The Number of U.S. Hate Groups Keeps Surging, Largely Thanks to Young, White men:
The number of hate groups nationwide reached a record high in 2018, driven partly by the persistent growth of white nationalist groups catering to young, college-aged men.
There are currently 1,020 active hate groups in America — up from 954 in 2017, and 917 the previous year, according to an annual tally by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). The new, young face of hate emerged from the shadows during the 2016 election and organized through a shared language of memes and under the banner of the “alt-right.” Many hailed then-candidate Donald Trump, with his hard-line views on immigration, as a hero. In celebration of his election, the alt-right’s one-time de facto leader Richard Spencer led a room full of young men in suits to give Nazi salutes.
Since then, Spencer and other prominent actors, entangled in costly lawsuits and tired of being heckled by anti-fascist protesters, have faded into relative obscurity.
At the same time, groups like Identity Evropa — whose khaki-clad members were a formidable presence at the violent “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017— have proliferated and expanded their reach by setting up new chapters across the country. Patriot Front also grew significantly in 2018 after splintering from Vanguard America, the group linked to the 19-year-old neo-Nazi who rammed his car into a crowd of protesters during the Charlottesville rally and killed Heather Heyer.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday February 22 2019, @05:41PM (10 children)
You're still obtuse as you can possibly make yourself. No, I'm retracting nothing. I don't expect any black man to submit to a white man - and neither do I expect any white man to submit to a black.
Which part of Martin Luther King's dream do you fail to understand? The bit about a man being judged by his character, rather than the color of his skin? Go read that a few times, and get back to me. My children aren't going to be pushed down, or pushed aside, as some kind of punishment for what other white men have done in the past. You will see your millions of dead lying in the streets before that happens.
And, that's kinda the whole theme of this article.
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday February 22 2019, @06:31PM (7 children)
You ought to actually read King Jr. in a bit more depth. He said a lot more than the "I have a dream" speech, and in particular, was calling for the kind of reforms that give you the horrors today under the heading of "democratic socialism." Your fallacy is in believing that the playing field is level to begin with. It manifestly is not.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday February 22 2019, @07:20PM (6 children)
I may just do that this weekend - I have nothing planned. I already know that King was a Republican. He was smart enough to know that Democrats and the KKK were almost synonymous. I already know that King was anti-socialist, and/or anti-communist. Maybe I should dig into his teachings. Unlike some other people around here, I'm not too old to learn.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 22 2019, @07:58PM (3 children)
Jesus fucking cHRiSt yer dumb!
"Although the names stayed the same, the platforms of the two parties reversed each other in the mid-20th century, due in large part to white ‘Dixiecrats’ flight out of the Democratic Party and into the Republican Party after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964," she said."
So you are correct sort-of, but if MLK was alive today he'd tell the GOP to go fuck itself. Do you even brain bro?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 22 2019, @10:59PM
Then you should have no problem listing them all by name. I'll start:
How much sense does it make that Dixiecrats would join the party with ~80% support for the civil rights act? The party that voted 100% on the 13th, 94% on the 14th and 100% on the 15th was such a lightning rod for Southern racist Dixiecrats that only one of them ever switched. Most dixiecrats like KKK "cyclops" and mentor to Hillary Clinton remained lifelong democrats.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday February 23 2019, @02:43AM (1 child)
Keep telling yourself that. The more you tell a lie, the truer it becomes.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 23 2019, @07:24AM
You're really making yourself look stupid.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Friday February 22 2019, @09:59PM
But, Runaway, you complete and total moran, we were talking about Martin Luther King, Jr. PhD, not Steve King [nytimes.com], Republican racist.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 22 2019, @10:35PM
https://www.britannica.com/story/was-martin-luther-king-jr-a-republican-or-a-democrat [britannica.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 22 2019, @06:32PM
You are being judged on your character. You offer plenty of nice platitudes for how you don't care about race, but every once in a while your racism peaks out. We have memories, we see your bullshit. Reverse victimhood is just as bad as reverse racism, and your response to liberals "winning" would be civil war? Your crazy is so flagrant it really is difficult to make you see it.
Let us start with the end of your post -
That made me read the article and no where in it do they advocate for anyone to "be pushed down, or pushed aside, as some kind of punishment for what other white men have done in the past." The only policy that comes close is Affirmative Action. You'll find some sympathy over that but if you want true support then you'll have to give your support against voter suppression and minorities murdered by cops. If you refuse to address those problems then I will have little sympathy for your feelings of persecution. I doubt you can bridge that ideological gap because you're a brainwashed conservative who posts a ridiculous amount of propaganda points and you ignore all inconvenient truths.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 23 2019, @11:44AM
So, it's still the Runaway1956 Race War, eh? Well, good luck with that! And remember, Liberals are better shots, they don't slobber at the mouth and fog up the scope so much.