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If these were African Americans throwing bottles at cops (Original Post) malaise Aug 2017 OP
Yep Solly Mack Aug 2017 #1
Joy is now showing Ferguson malaise Aug 2017 #4
Stark difference ain't it? Solly Mack Aug 2017 #7
Yep, immediate execution. dalton99a Aug 2017 #5
Yes...and before the first bottle was thrown too. Solly Mack Aug 2017 #9
The alt right is doing a great job at maintaining a double standard in this country. dubyadiprecession Aug 2017 #19
Let's strike the term "alt right" from our vocabulary. Saviolo Aug 2017 #46
How many of them *are* police from other jurisdictions? SeattleVet Aug 2017 #35
I wondered the same thing. Solly Mack Aug 2017 #38
Very good point. I was thinking many wished they could be with thier ideological brothers and lunasun Aug 2017 #53
Absolutely! Chasstev365 Aug 2017 #2
Joy has been interjecting this again and again... Zoonart Aug 2017 #3
As Joy is pointing out, our country is still very very racist at every point of our Eliot Rosewater Aug 2017 #6
Yep heather blossom Aug 2017 #8
Ferguson, Baltimore...There were tanks HipChick Aug 2017 #10
Here come the cope with water hoses malaise Aug 2017 #12
Now declared unlawful assembly malaise Aug 2017 #11
The presence of guns is terrifying. Finally a bit of armor. nolabear Aug 2017 #13
It was foolish to allow this gathering in this small park The Velveteen Ocelot Aug 2017 #16
It looks like the men that have been shown that have shields and helmets have been nazis. AJT Aug 2017 #14
When white people do it, it is the First Amendment in action. guillaumeb Aug 2017 #15
The rally has been canceled malaise Aug 2017 #17
And the images of NAZI saluting white males are out there. guillaumeb Aug 2017 #20
Exactly.... HipChick Aug 2017 #18
K&R... spanone Aug 2017 #21
. . . CousinIT Aug 2017 #22
Perfect malaise Aug 2017 #26
Yup ismnotwasm Aug 2017 #27
CBS just reported that cops have left the area mcar Aug 2017 #23
Sad but true. Will the media comment? NurseJackie Aug 2017 #24
Rec . . . and not to quibble GaryCnf Aug 2017 #25
+1,000 malaise Aug 2017 #28
Naw quakerboy Aug 2017 #48
LOL malaise Aug 2017 #49
It took almost an hour for the police to show up, even though they were just a few hundred yards... George II Aug 2017 #29
Exactly! THIS is "white privilege" in case you weren't sure. Greybnk48 Aug 2017 #30
Oppression vs Privilege demmiblue Aug 2017 #31
One woman against the armoured Police 👮 nt Stellar Aug 2017 #37
Nice malaise Aug 2017 #50
so true heaven05 Aug 2017 #32
The cops need to show some courtesy to the alt-right nazis, ... JustABozoOnThisBus Aug 2017 #33
herr drumpf would be having shit fits. greatauntoftriplets Aug 2017 #34
Where are the tanks, teargas and the dogs that we see police Stellar Aug 2017 #36
or even liberal white folks...like with Occupy. MindPilot Aug 2017 #45
Absolutely correct, malaise. roamer65 Aug 2017 #39
If anybody is surprised by this Lazy Daisy Aug 2017 #40
They would be dead. broadcaster90210 Aug 2017 #41
And the morgue would be filled with fresh corpses by now. Ken Burch Aug 2017 #42
No points in the black agenda coincide with our national agenda ProudLib72 Aug 2017 #43
I don't think I have ever been so sickened by anything so much in my life. smirkymonkey Aug 2017 #44
they would be dead thugs. spanone Aug 2017 #47
oh hell yes.... samnsara Aug 2017 #51
Yes, and Sessions* would be busy picking out the best trees... Raster Aug 2017 #52
+1,000 malaise Aug 2017 #54

dubyadiprecession

(5,711 posts)
19. The alt right is doing a great job at maintaining a double standard in this country.
Sat Aug 12, 2017, 12:04 PM
Aug 2017

For the rest of us, one standard will do just fine.

Saviolo

(3,282 posts)
46. Let's strike the term "alt right" from our vocabulary.
Sat Aug 12, 2017, 02:45 PM
Aug 2017

It is a marketing term designed to soften the image of white supremacists, white nationalists, racists, and neo-nazis. From now on, I refuse to call them alt-right, and I will only call them what they are: white supremacists, white nationalists, racists, and neo-nazis.

No more normalizing with convenient marketing terms to make them sound palatable. Richard Spencer and the Breitbart set can own their actual movement, which is comprised almost entirely of white supremacists, white nationalists, racists, and neo-nazis.

SeattleVet

(5,477 posts)
35. How many of them *are* police from other jurisdictions?
Sat Aug 12, 2017, 01:27 PM
Aug 2017

Either as members of the Nazi and other hate groups groups, or infiltrators.

And they certainly don't want to be shooting their own.

lunasun

(21,646 posts)
53. Very good point. I was thinking many wished they could be with thier ideological brothers and
Sun Aug 13, 2017, 07:57 AM
Aug 2017

chose not to interfere but yes, true many may have been thier blue brothers

Zoonart

(11,866 posts)
3. Joy has been interjecting this again and again...
Sat Aug 12, 2017, 11:53 AM
Aug 2017

we saw what happened at Fergusen... there were tanks. Here...? hands off nazi free for all.

Eliot Rosewater

(31,112 posts)
6. As Joy is pointing out, our country is still very very racist at every point of our
Sat Aug 12, 2017, 11:53 AM
Aug 2017

being.

If these were black folks they would all be dead or injured and surely in jail

malaise

(268,998 posts)
11. Now declared unlawful assembly
Sat Aug 12, 2017, 11:55 AM
Aug 2017

Blame the stupid judge who allowed this shit to happen.
Thanks Don the Con

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,693 posts)
16. It was foolish to allow this gathering in this small park
Sat Aug 12, 2017, 11:59 AM
Aug 2017

but the violence probably would have happened anyhow, even if it had been moved.

AJT

(5,240 posts)
14. It looks like the men that have been shown that have shields and helmets have been nazis.
Sat Aug 12, 2017, 11:58 AM
Aug 2017

Now there are police.

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
15. When white people do it, it is the First Amendment in action.
Sat Aug 12, 2017, 11:59 AM
Aug 2017

When non-white people do it, it is a riot and must be put down with all force necessary.

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
20. And the images of NAZI saluting white males are out there.
Sat Aug 12, 2017, 12:04 PM
Aug 2017

Making America great again, one white power salute at a time.

 

GaryCnf

(1,399 posts)
25. Rec . . . and not to quibble
Sat Aug 12, 2017, 12:08 PM
Aug 2017

BUT what happened in Ferguson was righteous anger that just needed targeted more toward the oppressors.

What is happening in Charlottesville is a bunch of criminals being allowed to maraud against civilization.

malaise

(268,998 posts)
28. +1,000
Sat Aug 12, 2017, 12:09 PM
Aug 2017

Where are the fugging cops?

Lots of these crazy white guys will be arrested - people have cameras

quakerboy

(13,920 posts)
48. Naw
Sun Aug 13, 2017, 02:04 AM
Aug 2017

Well maybe, but only after they go home, stew in their hate, and then attack a neighbor, shoot a coworker, beat a family member, or otherwise take some other violent action that can be passed of as a troubled individual whos actions couldn't really have been predicted or prevented.

George II

(67,782 posts)
29. It took almost an hour for the police to show up, even though they were just a few hundred yards...
Sat Aug 12, 2017, 12:35 PM
Aug 2017

...from the riot when it started.

Greybnk48

(10,168 posts)
30. Exactly! THIS is "white privilege" in case you weren't sure.
Sat Aug 12, 2017, 12:40 PM
Aug 2017

Last edited Sat Aug 12, 2017, 01:30 PM - Edit history (2)

They'd be shot, or at least beaten. So many people deny white privilege, but here it is right in our faces.

JustABozoOnThisBus

(23,340 posts)
33. The cops need to show some courtesy to the alt-right nazis, ...
Sat Aug 12, 2017, 01:07 PM
Aug 2017

... because many of those alt-right nazis are probably cops.

Or, as a cop might say, blue lives matter.

Stellar

(5,644 posts)
36. Where are the tanks, teargas and the dogs that we see police
Sat Aug 12, 2017, 01:27 PM
Aug 2017

sport whenever Black folks are evolved? 😠

 

MindPilot

(12,693 posts)
45. or even liberal white folks...like with Occupy.
Sat Aug 12, 2017, 02:24 PM
Aug 2017

doesn't take much to see which way the wind is blowin'

 

Lazy Daisy

(928 posts)
40. If anybody is surprised by this
Sat Aug 12, 2017, 02:07 PM
Aug 2017

I'd worry about them. This is SOP in this country. Just look at the pumpkin fest riot, surfing competition riot, and lets not even get into that whole fiasco at the Bundy Ranch where there were rifles aimed at federal agents from bridges above. Those are just a few.

ProudLib72

(17,984 posts)
43. No points in the black agenda coincide with our national agenda
Sat Aug 12, 2017, 02:17 PM
Aug 2017

We allow them to exist. Till we don't anymore.

Black and angry = mob
White and angry = patriotic rally

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
44. I don't think I have ever been so sickened by anything so much in my life.
Sat Aug 12, 2017, 02:20 PM
Aug 2017

This just turns my stomach. I am honestly nauseated just reading about it.

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