This is Donald Trump’s biggest fiction — and the engine of his insane rage machine

This is Donald Trump’s biggest fiction — and the engine of his insane rage machine

by Paul Rosenberg at Salon

http://www.salon.com/2016/01/17/this_is_donald_trumps_biggest_fiction_and_the_engine_of_his_insane_rage_machine/

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“Black Lives Matter” Is Politically Incorrect. “All Lives Matter” Is Politically Correct.

This one isn’t terribly difficult to figure out. As Digby said, the true source of resentment isn’t the alleged suppression of racist/sexist speech, it’s the attainment of equal rights. Nothing brings that into sharper forcus than a movement affirming the most basic of rights, which has always been denied to black Americans, the right to live in physical security. “The anti-PC issue is a smoke screen,” Digby wrote, and this is the clearest possible demonstration. It’s not the phrase “Black lives matter” that’s the source of their upset—it’s the movement, and its purpose. This was made vividly clear when Mercutio Southall Jr. was beaten and kicked by Trump supporters at a Birmingham rally, while some chanted, “All lives matter” at him.

As Southall explained his motivation, “The things that he’s been saying about black people, Latino people, immigrants, refugees—we felt it was very disrespectful,” especially coming to “a city where some of the biggest battles of the civil rights movement happened…. I mean, this man came to our city a couple of weeks before Christmas, saying we should not let in Middle Eastern refugees. If I’m not mistaken, I think Jesus was a Middle Eastern refugee. So we were not going to stand idly by and see the rise of the next Hitler. We knew we had to stand for something.”

So Southall went to the Trump rally with two friends to protest. At one point, a Trump supporter knocked the phone out of his friend’s hand, after which the three started chanting, “Black lives matter,” and the mob attacked them:


“It was just a sea of white faces,” he told ThinkProgress. “A lady kicked me in the stomach. A man kicked me in the chest. They called me n*****, monkey, and they shouted ‘all lives matter’ while they were kicking and punching me. So for all the people who are still confused at this point, they proved what ‘all lives matter’ meant. It means, ‘Shut up, n*****.’”

That, folks, is real political correctness in action.



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