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geardaddy

(24,931 posts)
Wed Aug 31, 2016, 11:46 AM Aug 2016

White Lives Matter is a hate group. No, for real.

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/8/30/1565187/-White-Lives-Matter-is-a-hate-group-No-for-real?detail=email&link_id=15&can_id=977f0f8a1b90e461c9de8f856582893b&source=email-video-presenting-people-with-their-dna-results-forces-us-to-confront-our-biases-against-others&email_referrer=video-presenting-people-with-their-dna-results-forces-us-to-confront-our-biases-against-others___101276&email_subject=republicans-are-already-plotting-to-obstruct-a-clinton-presidency-this-is-why-we-must-win-the-house

The NY Times is reporting today that White Lives Matter has been designated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. The group, which has tracked hate group activity in the United States since 1981, stated:

"The White Lives Matter website says their movement is dedicated to the preservation of the white race. That tells you all you need to know,” said Heidi Beirich, the director of the Intelligence Project at the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Ala. “They’re against integration, immigration. This is standard white supremacist stuff.”

The group, which grew out of a social media meme, argues that white Americans are victims of a genocide caused by factors like the immigration of nonwhite people and marriage between white Christians and nonwhites or Jews, Ms. Beirich said. [...]

“We do not live by the code of the nonwhites,” [Rebecca Barnette] wrote in one post calling for her followers to take action against the federal government, Jews and African-Americans. “Our forefathers built the nation that is being allowed to be destroyed.” Later she added, “I wish Hitler were here alive and well today.”


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White Lives Matter is a hate group. No, for real. (Original Post) geardaddy Aug 2016 OP
ya think????? niyad Aug 2016 #1
Exactly. geardaddy Aug 2016 #2
Tone Deaf magicnpoetry Aug 2016 #3
Excellent analogy. n/t geardaddy Aug 2016 #4
 

magicnpoetry

(45 posts)
3. Tone Deaf
Wed Aug 31, 2016, 11:53 AM
Aug 2016

I'm constantly amazed as more "Fill in the Blank" lives matter groups try to co-opt the Black Lives Matter movement that there is such little introspection as to why the Black Lives Matter movement began. I swear we've become a nation of teenagers who can't see past our own noses.

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