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When the church doors open, only white people will be allowed inside.
That’s the message the Asatru Folk Assembly in Murdock, Minnesota, is sending after being granted a conditional use permit to open a church there and practice its pre-Christian religion that originated in northern Europe.
Murdock council members said they do not support the church but were legally obligated to approve the permit, which they did in a 3-1 decision.
“We were highly advised by our attorney to pass this permit for legal reasons to protect the First Amendment rights," Mayor Craig Kavanagh said. "We knew that if this was going to be denied, we were going to have a legal battle on our hands that could be pretty expensive.”
City Attorney Don Wilcox said it came down to free speech and freedom of religion.
“I think there’s a great deal of sentiment in the town that they don’t want that group there," he said. "You can’t just bar people from practicing whatever religion they want or saying anything they want as long as it doesn’t incite violence.”
After permit approved for whites-only church, small Minnesota town insists it isn't racist
(Score: 3, Funny) by barbara hudson on Tuesday December 22 2020, @10:48PM (7 children)
A bunch of white people should go in hyper-realistic blackface, just to fuck with their heads. Wearing "Black Lives Matter" t-shirts.
Accompanied by blacks in whiteface. See the movie "Two White Chicks".
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by Arik on Wednesday December 23 2020, @05:17AM (6 children)
The only rational reaction is exactly what you said. Let's play dress-up. Black people become white, white people become black, brown folks just have some fun, mix it up.
You can't tell the difference now? Great, that's the point, you don't need to tell the difference, it wasn't important to begin with! I performed that skit for years, I didn't get rich, I didn't do it for money, I did it to make the world a better place by expanding some minds.
Now we have supposedly left-wing gate keepers that think any pale-skin who went along with the exercise must be cancelled; denounced as racists. Ridiculous.
It's true, I do not yet have a cage full of rats locked around my head, but this is some grim shit nonetheless. It's a new puritanism. It's the exact opposite of everything historically called 'left.'
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
(Score: 0, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 23 2020, @04:09PM
It's so interesting to consider that when we look back at history we tend to arbitrarily label things good or evil. But for people living through those times there's no doubt that things were likely not especially different than what we're experiencing today. This [wikipedia.org] is the Fascist Manifesto. That is ground-zero fascism and lays out the framework for how Mussolini saw his party's political goals. The word fascism itself was derived from fascio which is just an Italian word that means a bundle or sheaf. The idea being that people working together for a better society are strong and unbreakable, whereas individually they're fragile and weak.
And reading the manifesto one immediately notices it's basically the foundation for modern day Progressive, with a capital P, ideology. Of course Progressivism is not inherently fascist. Rather the point I make is that what labels people give themselves (or others) are ultimately irrelevant. Who people are is defined by their actions, and is also how history will ultimately judge and record these people.
And indeed during the rise of Fascism in Italy there's no doubt that people felt they would be going down on the "right side of history" even if it involved getting their hands a bit dirty in the mean time in order to ensure a better and more just society for everybody, moving forward. They might be initially surprised (though probably not upon honest reflection) that instead of going down on the "right side of history", their party's very name itself ended up becoming little more than a political pejorative for self righteous intolerance.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 23 2020, @04:11PM
Amen.
My perspective is a little different, because I work in music. I can only describe what I've had to deal with as the new victorianism. No, we're not putting skirts on pianos in case the legs arouse the audience to an ecstasy of hormonal rage, but the content must be so carefully watched that right now putting out anything with lyrics that didn't pass a screen of editors is an invitation to be dumped.
I thought we were past all this after the mind-numbingly idiotic addition of content warning labels to appease Tipper and her gang of thugs back in the '80s, but I was wrong. I should have known. Satanic Panic in the '80s. Political Correctness in the '90s. A brief respite in the naughties and now it's Woke World 2020. The cheerleaders every time? The left.
I'm not Ted Nugent yet, but he's starting to make a lot of sense to me. This is a new feeling and I'm not sure I'm comfortable with it.
(Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday December 23 2020, @06:29PM (3 children)
The racists can use their freedom of speech to say that minorities are bad.
The progressives can use their freedom of speech to say that racists are bad.
It's a win-win!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 23 2020, @07:40PM (1 child)
And a bunch of regular folks can chime in, saying both racists and progressives are stupid, just in different ways?
A poem for you, from a danish hero:
For many system shoppers it's a good-for-nothing system
that classifies as opposites stupidity and wisdom,
because by logic-choppers it's accepted with avidity:
stupidity's true opposite's the opposite stupidity.
-- Piet Hein
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 23 2020, @09:20PM
Ok, I read the poem, now where's the Danish?
'Let them eat cake.', he says.. I'll show them cake!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 23 2020, @09:14PM
Yeah, well, can one of ya use their *freedom of speech* to order up my pizza??
No, wait, scratch that, gimme a pastrami on rye, hold the mayo, and make it snappy, at my age, seconds count, you never know when the big one is gonna pop.. C'mon! Chop chop! You want something for the tip jar, right?