endo wrote:OakleyDokely wrote:
Oh I don't know, the fact he has surrounded himself with white nationalists in the white house and claimed that there were "good people" at a KKK, Nazi march.
lulz at the KKK, Nazi March.
Yes, there were some KKK and Nazi members at that march, but (a) they were not the majority and (b) that was not the primary emphasis behind the march.
This logic could also apply to the Black Lives Matters protest, which contains elements that call for the murder of police and neo-Marxist policies that are based in Marxist theory, which by the way killed far more people than the Nazis did.
At the same time, unlike yourself OakleyDokely, I'm not ignorant enough to suggest that all BLM protesters are cop-killers or communists!
Oh lordie, he never said that. You missed the point entirely.
I'm not a fan of the way BLM conducts themselves myself, for the most part. I contrast it with Martin Luther King and the Black Panthers. MLK did it the right way, with peaceful protesting. Even when he didn't get what he wanted he was tolerant of the hateful racist remarks that went his way. It eventually got a lot of people to change their minds and view his plight in a different light. The Black Panthers though are a "we want this and we're going to do EVERYTHING in our power to attain it!" It frames their message in the wrong way when their members are carrying guns around and getting themselves involved in police interaction with black men. Yes, black people deserve better. Yes peaceful protesting is the long way around. No it won't happen right away. And yes it DOES work. BLM has mimicked the methods of the Black Panthers with their shutting down of freeways and holding public events hostage so they can get their word out.
Though that's not the point. The point is this pathetic president has made hurtful remarks to Mexicans about being rapists and killers. He's banned entire nationalities from entering the country just because they have a small chance of being a terrorist. Yet during an event where a black protestor is killed by a white nationalist, where white militia stormed the streets carrying assault rifles and advocating an ideology created by the most hated and vile human being in the last 100 years, and instead of condemning this subculture that does nothing but promote racism, he defends them saying "there are very good people there too." Yes, not like there are thousands of illegal immigrants who are very good kind hearted people that just want to make a decent living. Not like there are millions of good muslims who went to school and work a respectable 9-5 while being law abiding citizens. Nope, he did nothing to defend those good people.
This tweet says it all
It behooves me that there are Canadians who can actually emphasize with this man, especially if you live in Toronto, the most diverse city in the world.