ok so my thoughts on whats going on,
I feel like there's some things getting lost in the media and/or people are not engaging with so heres a quick list of ideas/questions I have:
- I think confederate statues/memorials should be taken out of public spaces. but the process how this is happening seems pretty fucked and feels like bait. i don't think people should tear them down without a civil process & the statues should go into museums // civil war exhibits. now no one can make the argument we are destroying//replacing history. but sometimes history belongs behind closed doors.
- conservatives have been worried about Antifa for quite sometime now before charlotteville & they do not simply shut down nazi's. they have turned up & intervened in free speech across universities to stop ppl like Ben Shapiro and Ann Coulter from speaking. it appears they simply do not like conservatives//republicans across the board, and I feel this is the triggering reason why Trump and others have been attempting to bring them into the discussion as much as the white nationalists. but they are butchering how they discuss antifa by comparing them to nazis, so then the media rips them apart. the media does not cover the grand context of antifa either. I'm worried the media will allow these behaviors to continue by acting like everyone antifa opposes must be for morally sound reasons instead of political ones.
- I don't think Trump is a major major factor in this "rise of white nationalism". i don't even think there's a rise, people are just showing their faces more thru social media. there is going to be and already is a push to associate the MAGA hat with racism & white nationalism. soon all republicans//conservatives will be viewed thru this sense. isn't this scary to some? we are letting opposition parties define the meanings of those they oppose & that is inherently a flawed bias.
I feel like there's some things getting lost in the media and/or people are not engaging with so heres a quick list of ideas/questions I have:
- I think confederate statues/memorials should be taken out of public spaces. but the process how this is happening seems pretty fucked and feels like bait. i don't think people should tear them down without a civil process & the statues should go into museums // civil war exhibits. now no one can make the argument we are destroying//replacing history. but sometimes history belongs behind closed doors.
- conservatives have been worried about Antifa for quite sometime now before charlotteville & they do not simply shut down nazi's. they have turned up & intervened in free speech across universities to stop ppl like Ben Shapiro and Ann Coulter from speaking. it appears they simply do not like conservatives//republicans across the board, and I feel this is the triggering reason why Trump and others have been attempting to bring them into the discussion as much as the white nationalists. but they are butchering how they discuss antifa by comparing them to nazis, so then the media rips them apart. the media does not cover the grand context of antifa either. I'm worried the media will allow these behaviors to continue by acting like everyone antifa opposes must be for morally sound reasons instead of political ones.
- I don't think Trump is a major major factor in this "rise of white nationalism". i don't even think there's a rise, people are just showing their faces more thru social media. there is going to be and already is a push to associate the MAGA hat with racism & white nationalism. soon all republicans//conservatives will be viewed thru this sense. isn't this scary to some? we are letting opposition parties define the meanings of those they oppose & that is inherently a flawed bias.