Tweet: Jess Dweck
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First off, let’s get the context right.
In advance of the removal of a confederate statue at the University of Virginia, several thousand Nazis traveled to Charlottesville, Virginia to protest.
The image above is from Friday evening. (The caption is brilliant and hell of accurate.)
Violence marred the protests from square one. Who did what to whom is immaterial. I am very much in the pro-Nazi punching camp. (No, that is not an anti-free speech position–it’s a pro free speech which is also a position that exercising free speech almost always has consequences. And make no mistake, this entire issue on the far-right has fuck all to do with free speech and everything to do with a retrogressive desire to go back to a world where if a white man told you to sit down and shut up, you sat down and shut up unless you wanted to die. What these fuck wits want is free speech independent of any consequences–but only for themselves.)
On Saturday, anti-racist counter protestors clashed early and often with the massed Nazi scum. Shortly after noon, a Nazi drove his car at considerable speed into a group of counter protestors killing Heather Heyer and injuring dozens more.
I need you to note how The President of the United States of America responded–by condemning “egregious display of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides. On many sides.“
Let that sink in for a second. The President of the US just stated in terms free and clear of the usual GOP dog whistles that: being labeled a racist is actually more offensive than you know actual racism.
That he refused to call out White Terrorism is unsurprising–that’s sort of his thing.
Make no mistake: when 45 promised to Make America Great Again, he envisioned more or less what happened yesterday in Charlottesville, Virginia.
I hear a lot of things about how violence doesn’t solve anything and how principled non-violence is the only progressive alternative. Historically that just doesn’t track. It’s not just WWII, violence is the only language that these goddamn fucks understand.
If you see a Nazi, concuss a motherfucking Nazi.
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