Brilliantly, sadly observed

[Mark Thibodeau]

It's not only the semi-literate, either. Anybody here ever happen across
www.counter-currents.com?

J

On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 8:09 PM, David Kilroy <thesaintgodard at gmail.com>
wrote:

> "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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