this is a comprehensive report of public confederate symbols (monuments, schools, parks, etc) in the united states, and also includes a handy index at the end with a state-by-state breakdown:
https://www.splcenter.org/sites/default/files/whoseheritage_splc.pdf
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 15 August 2017 06:44 (six years ago) link
how did it become possible to take clowns styling themselves as "BasedStickMan" and "Augustus Invictus" half-way seriously?
― André Ryu (Neil S), Tuesday, 15 August 2017 10:21 (six years ago) link
When rich Twitter troll "BasedApprenticeMan" took over the Republican party and then became President.
― Chris L, Tuesday, 15 August 2017 10:45 (six years ago) link
haha
― Eazy, Tuesday, 15 August 2017 12:38 (six years ago) link
The whole "Based Stickman" thing reminds me of the conversations we had years ago about whether white kids were flipping out over Lil B genuinely or ironically.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, 15 August 2017 13:59 (six years ago) link
Yeah...
― maura, Tuesday, 15 August 2017 14:46 (six years ago) link
I've heard of at least one Boston show that's been moved from downtown because of "other events" in the area on Saturday. Blech.
― maura, Tuesday, 15 August 2017 14:47 (six years ago) link
But, as my Lyft driver pointed out yesterday, at least MA is not an open-carry state. The silver linings of 2017, man...
― maura, Tuesday, 15 August 2017 14:48 (six years ago) link
damn, dude
http://www.inforum.com/opinion/letters/4311880-letter-family-denounces-teffts-racist-rhetoric-and-actions
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 15 August 2017 15:56 (six years ago) link
chase these fuckers off the internet
Thank you @GoDaddy. Let's all please contact Cloudfare https://t.co/9yujQhY8a4 https://t.co/rGoIr9lSvm— Amy Siskind (@Amy_Siskind) August 14, 2017
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 15 August 2017 16:01 (six years ago) link
We Did It! The Internet Just Got Robert E. Lee Fired From Hell’s Only Baskin-Robbins
― Old Lynch's Sex Paragraph (Phil D.), Tuesday, 15 August 2017 16:05 (six years ago) link
I can't tell if Cloudflare has already taken them down or not - I tried to fill out the complaint form but I guess I didn't have a valid url (I'll be fucked if I'm actually going to that site)
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 15 August 2017 16:08 (six years ago) link
That letter from the dad has me weeping at work
― softie (silby), Tuesday, 15 August 2017 16:14 (six years ago) link
yeah I mean that last line
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 15 August 2017 16:17 (six years ago) link
hi-res version for public use from designer:http://imgur.com/a/lLP9x
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 15 August 2017 19:14 (six years ago) link
This is the final boss of confederate monuments. We're not stopping unless we replace these scumbags with Outkast. pic.twitter.com/HdqepIDTwe— Metro Atlanta DSA 🌹 (@MetroATLDSA) August 15, 2017
― The Man Who Saw The Midwife (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 15 August 2017 22:02 (six years ago) link
where do republicans end and nazis begin?
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 15 August 2017 22:10 (six years ago) link
the buffet line at a Presbyterian church
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 15 August 2017 22:13 (six years ago) link
ok lol
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 15 August 2017 22:14 (six years ago) link
I don't think most Republians are neo-nazis. Trump seems like a fellow traveller though!
― Treeship, Tuesday, 15 August 2017 22:14 (six years ago) link
Watching the Vice footage for the first time now. These people are so young wtf
― Treeship, Tuesday, 15 August 2017 22:19 (six years ago) link
The nazis that is
― Treeship, Tuesday, 15 August 2017 22:20 (six years ago) link
Just got accused of virtue signaling by someone on Facebook, I feel like I've really arrived now.
― louie mensch (milo z), Tuesday, 15 August 2017 22:30 (six years ago) link
the alt-left??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a57036/trump-charlottesville-press-conference/
― reggie (qualmsley), Tuesday, 15 August 2017 22:49 (six years ago) link
These people are so young wtf
I keep flashing on this thing that happened to a younger friend of mine a few years ago. He was dating this college student who was a little younger than him (iirc, she was 19 or 20), and who was mixed race (Polish-Hispanic). She had to read Mein Kampf for a class. She got really into it, and starting having arguments with him and others about how--Holocaust aside--Hitler was really progressive.
Needless to say, he dumped her pretty quickly after that. Also pretty sure she's a red-hatter now.
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 15 August 2017 22:59 (six years ago) link
We should allow abortion until the fetus reaches the age of 25.
― louie mensch (milo z), Tuesday, 15 August 2017 23:05 (six years ago) link
A lot of those dudes looked like average college students.. not meathead brawlers OR 4chan shut ins. This shouldn't be shocking to me but it was.
― Treeship, Tuesday, 15 August 2017 23:11 (six years ago) link
now now let's not judge nazis by their appearance
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 15 August 2017 23:16 (six years ago) link
can't judge a Reich by its Furher
― Neanderthal, Tuesday, 15 August 2017 23:18 (six years ago) link
A+
― constitutional crises they fly at u face (will), Tuesday, 15 August 2017 23:20 (six years ago) link
self-selection. the meathead brawlers all got stuck at a Hooters on the way to C'ville and the shut ins never made it out the door.
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Tuesday, 15 August 2017 23:20 (six years ago) link
the cover story in the September issue of Harper's by Seyward Darby is really good. she interviews a bunch of prominent women on the alt-right. everyone she talks to makes no sense, contradicts themselves, and are easily flustered. good story!
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 15 August 2017 23:21 (six years ago) link
https://www.facebook.com/events/266804640483421/
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 15 August 2017 23:23 (six years ago) link
america is racist as fuc and i'm sure there are a lot of people who don't want to see confederate 'heritage' discarded, but . . . nazis? i mean straight up people carrying nazi flags and chanting about jews and blood and soil?
i'd like to think that's fucking finally a step too far, but maybe i'm wrong. apparently it's not too much for paul ryan
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 15 August 2017 23:27 (six years ago) link
hey come on now Ryan said some *very* strong words
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 15 August 2017 23:28 (six years ago) link
before putting Trump's dick back in his mouth
The Rise of the Valkyries: In the alt-right, women are the future, and the problem, by Seyward Darby.
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 15 August 2017 23:47 (six years ago) link
This guy is very smart
http://www.politicalresearch.org/2017/06/29/skin-in-the-game-how-antisemitism-animates-white-nationalism/#sthash.GEZGMCWg.dpbs
― I want to change my display name (dan m), Tuesday, 15 August 2017 23:48 (six years ago) link
all you libtards are just sensitive flowers
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/daily-caller-compilation-cars-plowing-into-protesters
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 16 August 2017 00:07 (six years ago) link
the anti-trump logo thing is stupid tbh, plain old swastika is more impactful and it's not like the problem is limited to one powerful dumbass
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Wednesday, 16 August 2017 00:18 (six years ago) link
what you have to understand is that college students almost never have ideas when they get to college and they are very emotional and typically kind of dumb
― j., Wednesday, 16 August 2017 00:36 (six years ago) link
idk, i feel like 'nazis are bad' is an idea that's been pretty strong and well-distributed for the last 80 years or so
i don't doubt that they're dumb/emotional, but it takes a little extra to chant 'jews will not replace us'
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 16 August 2017 00:43 (six years ago) link
it gets passed down generation to generation a lot too, esp in the South. doesn't matter if the racist beliefs are more benign when presented to kids, there's always someone who can take that seed and push them where their parents/grandparents resisted going. esp in college.
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 16 August 2017 00:47 (six years ago) link
for example, the older dude who oversaw the horrific beating in the Charlottesvile parking lot - 2 or 3 of these dudes have been ID'd as well as him, he got kicked out of the military for stealing guns and giving them to the KKK (see Shaun King tweets)
― sleeve, Wednesday, 16 August 2017 00:56 (six years ago) link
the way King patiently and persistently cascaded those pictures across the internet was fantastic. it's 2017, wait long enough and you'll be IDed for shit like this.
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 16 August 2017 01:00 (six years ago) link
Dan thx for the article - good stuff
― Mordy, Wednesday, 16 August 2017 01:04 (six years ago) link
you tweet CNN reporter getting hit by a train, i say "Trump's dad was arrested at a KKK riot in 1927"
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 16 August 2017 01:29 (six years ago) link
this is pretty good. shows car attack and aftermath though so *warning*. but just as a document its pretty good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P54sP0Nlngg
― scott seward, Wednesday, 16 August 2017 06:30 (six years ago) link
'
huh so we got to the "Brandon dates a racist" arc in season 3 and I was actually kind of struck by how well it was handled/depicted (in contrast to the S1 "Brandon meets a black neighbor" episode). His girlfriend drops a number of snide comments - no n-words or overt slurs but plenty of subtle shade-throwing at Brandon's black boss, homeless people, etc. The last straw for Brandon is (of course) when she says some snarky anti-semitic shit about Andrea behind her back. Brandon actually references the Rodney King riots (and not even for the first time!), calls himself "a liberal kind of person", and, after initially trying to say he's willing to set aside their political differences, tells her to get lost and that it doesn't matter how well they get along, how attracted they are to each other. I had totally forgotten this storyline, was kind of surprising that it wasn't as super-clumsy as some of the other contemporary references.
― breastcrawl, Wednesday, 16 August 2017 11:52 (six years ago) link
plz ignore above post, self-generated by Zing
― breastcrawl, Wednesday, 16 August 2017 11:56 (six years ago) link