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Those groups skirt the line, though they're more issue oriented and will disappear within a couple years.
KKK is a whole different group.
They're not historical statues. They're monuments. Monuments change over time. I personally don't care either way, but I can understand that perhaps they no longer belong in public parks.
United States doesn't really teach its people about the Civil War.
It wasn't about states rights.
It wasn't about northern aggression.
The Confederacy was American created fascism. It was about the ten percent of landowners keeping slavery and poor whites in their place (or used as cannon fodder). There was no economic mobility and the wealthy wanted to keep it that way.
No. Fascism is you thinking you are the only person in the United States and you get to decide the lies you just posted are true and you get to decide that everyone has to think just as you do.
Read the speech -- it's the one they should have given him on Saturday. Not sure if the right people were off on the week end but I think so.
Too little, too late, damage done.
If this had been his speech on Saturday some people maybe might of believed it came from Trump. But we know now this is just an attempt of a fix...someone told him he needed to say this. He doesn't feel it -- except for the 'economy doing great'...yup it still is inpsite of you Trump.
Trump has said enough about Charlottesville and we can only hope there are no copycats and it doesn't happen again. It's best not to draw any more attention to the scum who caused it.
Too little, too late. He should have been all over this as soon as the car hit the protestors. Instead he flopped around like a fish on the beach fearing that he would antagonize His Base.
Trump is one of them.
The Donald didn't realize it was a pop quiz. He thought it was a take home test and he had 48 hours to develop an answer.
Realistically, he is caught between a rock and a had place (like I care?). He welcomed the vote of these hate groups, embraced the David Duke crowd, incited people to violence many times at his rallies, and now he finds himself in a position where more thoughtful people are telling him he has to shut it down because he looks like a stooge in front of his Country, as well as the world.
But these are HIS people. HIS base. HIS supporters.
No. Fascism is you thinking you are the only person in the United States and you get to decide the lies you just posted are true and you get to decide that everyone has to think just as you do.
You've got a little more studying of the Confederacy to do, as do many people.
It was one group of people deciding what was best for everyone. One party. One social class.
"President Donald Trump is saying that "racism is evil" as he condemns the KKK, neo-Nazis and white supremacists as "criminals and thugs."
Too little, too late. He's doing it out of public pressure, not because he honestly believes that. If he did, it would've been his first response, not one days later after universal criticism. He deserves no credit for this.
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