Current Events > How worried should we be as a society about what took place in Charlottesville?

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I personally feel like the percentage of people that make up the category of Neo-nazis or Alt-right is so minuscule that its not that grave of a concern as the media is making it out t be. I would like to believe America is far past such ideologies at this point and that these fringe groups are just an extremely vocal minority. Thoughts?
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I generally agree with you, TC. The far right is given far more attention than its numbers deserve.
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The alt-right may just be a very outspoken minority, but that doesn't mean we can ignore them. Especially not after they have literally taken a life.
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UncleBourbon33 posted...

So what about BLM, Antifa and other far left groups? The far left is a bigger problem than the far "right" ones.

Is it? I basically think of them as two sides of the same coin with minor nuances
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Kazi1212 posted...

I would like to believe America is far past such ideologies at this point

And yet we have what we had today. No, the US is NOT past it. Not enough. This kind of rally should not happen. Should not be happening multiple times a year. Should not be killing people.
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UncleBourbon33 posted...

So what about BLM, Antifa and other far left groups? The far left is a bigger problem than the far "right" ones.

Piss off.
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Kazi1212 posted...

Is it? I basically think of them as two sides of the same coin with minor nuances

Oh okay this is a troll topic.
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Sir Will posted...

UncleBourbon33 posted...

So what about BLM, Antifa and other far left groups? The far left is a bigger problem than the far "right" ones.

Piss off.

Make me.

Man this board is so toxic sometimes.
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UncleBourbon33 posted...

what about

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BLAKUboy posted...

Kazi1212 posted...

Is it? I basically think of them as two sides of the same coin with minor nuances

Oh okay this is a troll topic.

Well he's not wrong there.
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Humanity as whole is garbage.
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It was a rally in a relatively small town with a proportionately small amount of participants that an OVERWHELMING amount of the country, to include whites, disagreed with and thought was appalling.

If it seemed like it had any impact at all it was a byproduct of the media plastering these hicks all over the front page. Giving them too much attention imo.

It just sucks because it's a reminder that these kind of people are out there, and it reminds us that while progress has been made we still have a ways to go.
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gamer167 posted...

It was a rally in a relatively small town with a proportionately small amount of participants that an OVERWHELMING amount of the country, to include whites, disagreed with and thought was appalling.

If it seemed like it had any impact at all it was a byproduct of the media plastering these hicks all over the front page. Giving them too much attention imo.

It just sucks because it's a reminder that these kind of people are out there, and it reminds us that while progress has been made we still have a ways to go.

If the media had left it alone and there weren't counter protesters literally nothing would have happened
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I have a good friend of about 10 years who lives there, and she got threatened by one of those fucking Christian bastards. Thankfully nothing came of it, but their cowardice at least keeps them somewhat in check.
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News media fanning the flames yet again, tune in at 11pm!
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DarthAragorn posted...

If the media had left it alone and there weren't counter protesters literally nothing would have happened

"If those counterprotestors weren't there, they wouldn't have been hit by a car!"
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SGT_Conti posted...

DarthAragorn posted...

If the media had left it alone and there weren't counter protesters literally nothing would have happened

"If those counterprotestors weren't there, they wouldn't have been hit by a car!"

Oh come on, you know what was intended with that.
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SGT_Conti posted...

DarthAragorn posted...

If the media had left it alone and there weren't counter protesters literally nothing would have happened

"If those counterprotestors weren't there, they wouldn't have been hit by a car!"

"If the organizations responsible for reporting on it weren't there, nobody would know about it!"
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UncleBourbon33 posted...

Man this board is so toxic sometimes.

Calling BLM worse than Nazis and I'm the toxic one?
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We should be extremely worried that Nazis are feeling so emboldened that they go out and do this shit.
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We have been stagnant for a long time TC. We have inhabited this planet for thousands of years and have had numerous chances to get it right......we should be well beyond racism, greed, war, and all of the other ills of society.

Phantom_Nook posted...

We should be extremely worried that Nazis are feeling so emboldened that they go out and do this shit.

True and Trump will never call them on it
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White people are always being persecuted when will this madness end#fake news
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Herugrim posted...

This is what happens when you push too hard. Spend enough time telling white people that they are born evil and need to die to make the world a better place, and they will turn to someone else that doesn't treat them like lesser life forms, even if it's because those people are white supremacists.

If people are going to label you a misogynist nazi because you are white and have a penis, then you might as well hang with the Nazis.

Exaggerated statement but I think theres some truth there. White people and male bashing has become more commonplace within mainstream culture in the past decade or so, it's more fuel to the fire for these radicals who already felt like victims.
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Herugrim posted...

This is what happens when you push too hard. Spend enough time telling white people that they are born evil and need to die to make the world a better place, and they will turn to someone else that doesn't treat them like lesser life forms, even if it's because those people are white supremacists.

If people are going to label you a misogynist nazi because you are white and have a penis, then you might as well hang with the Nazis.

What the fuck
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DarthAragorn posted...

SGT_Conti posted...

DarthAragorn posted...

If the media had left it alone and there weren't counter protesters literally nothing would have happened

"If those counterprotestors weren't there, they wouldn't have been hit by a car!"

Oh come on, you know what was intended with that.

Okay, first off, you're saying that the new s media, whose entire job it is to report on things like this, to just ignore it. Newsworthy events aside, in the era of Donald Trump's "fake news", not reporting on the doings and rallies of the alt-right is just begging to have people accuse them of supressing coverage or some bullshit like that. It's heads, the alt-right wins and tails, the news companies lose.

Second, are you really going to blame people who are against Nazism instead of the people actually spouting Nazi rhetoric? The bullshit defense of "Liberals made me this way, they drove the white man into a corner" is the pitiful cry of a toddler who knows he fucked up but still insists on blaming the family dog. People who attribute their reprehensible views on "the other guy" have zero concept of taking responsibility for their actions. Whenever I encounter racism, I don't shout from the rooftops to fucking kill white men and drive cars through crowds of them because that's a fucking lunatic idea and is inexcusable. Literally everyone else in the world needs to take responsibility, but these entitled manchildren think they're some sort of exceptional beings who don't need to follow the rules everyone else does.

Fuck Nazis
Fuck the alt-right
Fuck people who give these people a pass

Herugrim posted...

This is what happens when you push too hard. Spend enough time telling white people that they are born evil and need to die to make the world a better place, and they will turn to someone else that doesn't treat them like lesser life forms, even if it's because those people are white supremacists.

If people are going to label you a misogynist nazi because you are white and have a penis, then you might as well hang with the Nazis.

Oh? And how about it swinging the other way? Would you be so willing to excuse someone who goes around killing neo-Nazis because they have been, in turn, pushed too far by the alt-right and white supremacy? Or would you condemn them for extreme actions and terrorism? This kind of excuse opens the door to a constant escalation and that's not where you want any civilized nation to go.
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