signalmankenneth
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Maybe that why the white supremacists trash felt embolden to attack the capitol on Jan 6th?!!
Supporters of President Donald Trump clash with police and security forces as they try to storm the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The mob forced its way into the Capitol as Congress met to certify the 2020 Electoral College count.
When I was a teenager in the 1990s, white supremacist groups in America were relatively fringe: fodder for HBO documentaries tucked away in some backwater town I’d likely never visit or worry about coming across in real life.
For me, this changed in August 2017, when white nationalists lit up Charlottesville, Virginia, with their tiki torches, Nazi flags and fragile masculinity. They called it “Unite the Right.” Three people died ― a counterprotester hit by a car and two state troopers in a copter crash ― and the melee dominated the news cycle for days. I’d never seen anything like it in my life.
That rally felt like the spiritual beginning of an upward trend of brazen racial, anti-LGBTQ and antisemitic vitriol from within the country’s conservative bowels. I see more headlines than I ever have about attempted or executed organized protests from hate groups, like the neo-Nazi-fueled “National Day of Hate.”
We’ve seen increased instances of organized hatred in places like Massachusetts, where Boston has always been reliable for a tidy bit of anti-Blackness.
The largest recent gathering came courtesy of the white supremacist group Patriot Front, which marched about 150 deep in Washington, D.C., on May 14. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, this group was inspired by “Unite the Right” and has made appearances in several states.
Outside of organized gatherings, we’ve seen an overall jump in reported hate crimes nationally in recent years, according to the FBI.
I’ll bet we have more of this to look forward to if we even think of putting Donald Trump back in the White House.
For anyone paying attention, there was a palpable shift in the sociopolitical climate after Trump won the presidency in November 2016: Outraged that the country had the gall to put a Black man in the Oval Office for eight whole years, angry whites rallied to get a reality television star with a penchant for bankruptcy and bragging about grabbing women in the hoo-hah to replace him.
A 2020 study from the Southern Poverty Law Center revealed that hate groups have risen significantly since Trump graced us with his presidential presence. For his part, he did precisely jack shit to stem the tide of these groups’ increased presence: He said, out loud, of the violence in Charlottesville that there were “very fine people on both sides.”
There was also his senior adviser Stephen Miller, a naked white supremacist who, by most accounts, seemed to be the eye of Sauron for undocumented immigrants during the Trump administration.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/white-supremacists-felt-superior-during-094501767.html
Supporters of President Donald Trump clash with police and security forces as they try to storm the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The mob forced its way into the Capitol as Congress met to certify the 2020 Electoral College count.
When I was a teenager in the 1990s, white supremacist groups in America were relatively fringe: fodder for HBO documentaries tucked away in some backwater town I’d likely never visit or worry about coming across in real life.
For me, this changed in August 2017, when white nationalists lit up Charlottesville, Virginia, with their tiki torches, Nazi flags and fragile masculinity. They called it “Unite the Right.” Three people died ― a counterprotester hit by a car and two state troopers in a copter crash ― and the melee dominated the news cycle for days. I’d never seen anything like it in my life.
That rally felt like the spiritual beginning of an upward trend of brazen racial, anti-LGBTQ and antisemitic vitriol from within the country’s conservative bowels. I see more headlines than I ever have about attempted or executed organized protests from hate groups, like the neo-Nazi-fueled “National Day of Hate.”
We’ve seen increased instances of organized hatred in places like Massachusetts, where Boston has always been reliable for a tidy bit of anti-Blackness.
The largest recent gathering came courtesy of the white supremacist group Patriot Front, which marched about 150 deep in Washington, D.C., on May 14. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, this group was inspired by “Unite the Right” and has made appearances in several states.
Outside of organized gatherings, we’ve seen an overall jump in reported hate crimes nationally in recent years, according to the FBI.
I’ll bet we have more of this to look forward to if we even think of putting Donald Trump back in the White House.
For anyone paying attention, there was a palpable shift in the sociopolitical climate after Trump won the presidency in November 2016: Outraged that the country had the gall to put a Black man in the Oval Office for eight whole years, angry whites rallied to get a reality television star with a penchant for bankruptcy and bragging about grabbing women in the hoo-hah to replace him.
A 2020 study from the Southern Poverty Law Center revealed that hate groups have risen significantly since Trump graced us with his presidential presence. For his part, he did precisely jack shit to stem the tide of these groups’ increased presence: He said, out loud, of the violence in Charlottesville that there were “very fine people on both sides.”
There was also his senior adviser Stephen Miller, a naked white supremacist who, by most accounts, seemed to be the eye of Sauron for undocumented immigrants during the Trump administration.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/white-supremacists-felt-superior-during-094501767.html
