Chloe (08-18-2017),Ravens Fan (08-18-2017),resister (08-18-2017),stjames1_53 (08-19-2017)
Chloe (08-18-2017)
You're either for racism or you're against it. You can't pick and choose what racism is acceptable and what isn't.
Chloe (08-18-2017),Ravens Fan (08-18-2017),resister (08-18-2017)
Peter1469 (08-19-2017),Ravens Fan (08-21-2017),stjames1_53 (08-19-2017)
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinio...uys/ar-AAqgEpp
Note:
The author of this op-ed is Jonah Goldberg, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and a senior editor of National Review.
“The antifa crowd has a very similar agenda with regard to traditional American liberalism. These goons and thugs oppose free speech, celebrate violence, despise dissent and have little use for anything else in the American political tradition.”
It has been my experience that ignorance is a choice. Mr. Goldberg’s ignorance is painfully obvious. His entire piece is fraught with his ignorance. Ignorance of history, and ignorance of the world that is right outside his front door. Invoking contrived images of Hitler & Stalin in an attempt to reach beyond reason going directly to the emotional state of fear.
“These goons and thugs”:
Dead wrong. These people are neither goons nor thugs. They are everyday average people. People who are very scared right now. People who are scared for very good reasons. For decades they have been opposing the rise of fascism in our country - they have been fighting it with logic - they have been fighting it with reason - they have been losing. Losing to fear & hate mongering. So by now they have learned (through some hard lessons) to fight fire with fire! Most of these people are the remnants of the occupy wall street groups.
“oppose free speech,” :
An out right lie. Hate speech, or even fear mongering, is not free speech, nor is any of it “protected” speech. What they are opposed to, is the BS that fascists have been peddling for decades now. The reason that they are so afraid of this now, is that over the decades people have been listening to this rubbish, and have come to believe that it is factual, and true.
“celebrate violence,” :
Another out right lie. Refusing to run away from a fight is not the same thing as ‘celebrating violence’. The simple fact that most of these people are refusing to run away anymore, does not mean that they have suddenly become advocates for violence.
"despise dissent" :
Another lie. None of them are self loathing. Despising themselves for apposing an evil. Quite the contrary! These people are the quintessential definition of dissent.
“and have little use for anything else in the American political tradition”:
A rather odd statement from one who advocates the advancement of fascism in our country. Democracy is suppose to be the governance by the majority, not the leverage control of a society by a minority. In fact (if any one would bother to listen to these people) what these members of the antifa want is for our country to returned to our American political traditions! Such as voter registration rather then voter suppression!
EIA