Brilliantly, sadly observed

[David Kilroy]

"It's clear now that the Paris attacks enormously energized the Trumpist
movement. He's now speculating openly about invading Syria. Trump's
proposals have gone from overt prejudice to things literally taken out of
late Weimar history — closure of mosques and a national Muslim database.
The rank-and-file have both fed off and stoked this behavior. When a lone
protester started chanting "black lives matter" at a Trump rally, Trumpists
jumped him (he was luckily not badly injured). Trump later said, "Maybe he
should have been roughed up." Hours later he lied about witnessing Muslim
crowds celebrating 9/11, and retweeted nonsense racist garbage from a
literal neo-Nazi."

http://theweek.com/articles/590497/donald-trumps-alarming-skid-toward-outright-fascism

After decades of being allowed to stockpile arms with increasingly little
federal interference, a general escalation in the violent rhetoric of the
right, and shrill sponsorship from the NRA, semiliterate knuckle-draggers
are only too eager to start a race / "religious" war in the U.S., and the
candidates, allowed to start their noisome campaigns two years in advance
of an actual election, are only egging them on.

I live in a state where black churches were burned, in a city with clear
color lines.  I'm not afraid of black people.  I'm afraid of shitheads
teething for glory.

On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 7:37 PM, David Kilroy <thesaintgodard at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Apologies for harping on this point.  Know that I do.  But it frankly
> terrifies me.
>
> On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 7:17 PM, David Kilroy <thesaintgodard at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> (shades of Lot 49, too: recall the swastika armbands)
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 7:16 PM, David Kilroy <thesaintgodard at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> The tech sector's too "What, me worry?" about the problem.
>>>
>>> Anonymity in comments threads, Craigslist, 4chan, Reddit et al permit
>>> open promulgation of hate speech.  Most sites, when confronted about the
>>> problem, cite free speech as a concern when the fact is they don't want to
>>> face the added hassle of verifying accounts and making people responsible
>>> for their words.
>>>
>>> There's a massive network of these shitheads armed for a race riot and
>>> no-one seems to want to stop them.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 5:05 PM, Steven Koteff <steviekoteff at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks a lot for this, Mark. Reading it now, and I agree with you. Very
>>>> smart and sadder for it.
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 2:45 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Charlie Pierce on the Powder Keg that is the United States of America
>>>>> right now
>>>>> http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a39987/america-race-powderkeg/
>>>>> …
>>>>> -
>>>>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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