charlottesville antics

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@shagg i think it's reasonable for people who were closeted white supremacists being open white supremacists now being called a rise of white nationalism, their openness allows them to organize in larger numbers and larger numbers being relative safety. and i think part of it is attributable to trump, as ive said multiple times in this post not taking a stance against white supremacy is implicitly supporting it, and going as far as to hire steve bannon in the first place is imo explicitly supporting it.

statues and monuments will always be portrayed as a positive thing, that's the nature of them. i don't think they need to be kept even in museums or galleries. i DO think that history books and public education needs a serious overhaul with how it handles the atrocities of american history, it needs to portray them as atrocities and not just products of their time, and then we have no need to preserve it in the form of monuments to terrible men whose names, for the most part, do need to be lost to history.

i do agree that painting ALL republicans as white supremacists is nonsense. i think that it devalues the danger of white supremacists and makes it harder to identify actual dangerous people as opposed to well meaning ignorant people that can be persuaded but also people have a right to be wary of any and all trump supporters, i definitely am.