(08-21-2017, 06:47 PM)homebiscuit Wrote: Charles Barkley says most black people haven't thought a day in their life about confederate statues.  Personally I don't care one way or another about the statues. If communities want them down, take them down. But this fabricated outrage and spate of vandalism only illustrates just how unhinged the alt left is in this country. Currently violence is a purview of the left, and the moderates say nothing and secretly enjoy it because they believe it is righteous. It is not.

I think the sudden, renewed outcry to whitewash (blackwash?) history is a direct product of the Bernie Sanders generation's willingness to eat up anything they're spoon fed by the news, by their teachers, by their mentors. If all three are telling them that Confederate memorials are bad and must come down, then clearly Confederate memorials are bad and must come down, right? Perhaps it's a symptom of their having grown up with Facebook and Twitter, where their influential figures are able to comment off the cuff, immediately, on whatever's on their mind. Previous generations (pre-1990ish millennials and earlier) would see something on the news, then a (usually) thought-out formal statement after the fact, giving them time to process and form their own opinion if they chose to. Now? Something happens and Trump, Sanders, whoever is tweeting a 140-character reaction in minutes, long before getting all the facts, and they send those comments out in such a way that they'll exactly be what their audience wants to hear as opposed to a genuine reaction to facts.

Of course, the alt-right does itself no favors when they march through cities with adorable little tiki torches saluting Nazi symbols and chanting anti-everything-that-isn't-white-and-Christian slogans. No one will ever be able to convince me that that was intended to be a nonviolent, peaceful protest. It was designed from the start to create mayhem, and anyone who says otherwise is fooling themselves and no one else.

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