Fine people on both sides.
Iām 100% Free Speech for this kind of civil discussion.
But U of A needs to understand, that those black 5-star football players (and potential recruits) may soon start to feel unwelcome over there.
Lincoln Egbert, the groupās vice president, who Taylor said extended the invitation to him, told TPM that America First would release a statement about the event on Friday.
Iām a little surprised this guy hasnāt gotten around to changing his name to something more appropriate. Might I suggest Nathan Bedford Egbert?
Meanwhile back in nineteenth century Alabama, bonehead people take up space in classes while refusing to learn a thing. Maybe they will get an attaboy tweet from another notorious bonehead.
No doubt The Atlanticās next hire, ironically enough for diversity.
Other than posturing over terminology, are there any real world differences between white nationalists and white supremacists?
Or perhaps a better questionā¦ are there really any white nationalists who arenāt also white supremacists? And if there arenāt (for the most part), then why give a racist cover by letting them label themselves as nationalists versus supremacists?
Red and white logo with clear white supremacist language and iconographyā¦ Just man up and put a friggin Swastika on it you wimps.
I hope they DO have this event. And every single one of those young people who attend in support are photographed and identified for their future employers to see. Serves them right.
Koch-funded āstudent groupsā are all over our campuses pushing this kind of nonsense, largely designed to divide and neutralize the youth vote by roping in young, petulant, disaffected white males and pitting them against their peers.
At the end of the day, I donāt know how effective it is: these people are so fundamentally unattractive that for every āconvertā to white, John Birchite, reactionary madness Charles Koch and his fellow-billionaires succeed in buying, another five people lurch to the left simply because they donāt want to be associated with these creepy boys.
Still, itās an ugly process, and provides a seed bed for right wing gender and racial violence.
āAnyone who speaks as a white person in the name of the legitimate interest of whites is going to attract an enormous amount of opposition,ā
For some reason I donāt think his professed white victimhood is going to gain him the same recognition and acclaim as Rosa Parks, MLK, Medgar Evers, et al.
This soft of ācivil discussionā could justifiably be described as terrorism. Here, let me illustrate for you. White people are intellectually, emotionally and physically inferior to people of color and should be deported as soon as possible and with whatever means possible, including lethal force and the breaking up of families. Oh, it sounds different when itās about white people. Nobody could have known.
Yet another āJaredā who is clearly a dickhead.
In the name of diversity, they should also schedule a speech by black historians who can discuss the Black Panther and Black Power movements, Stokely Carmichael, Malcolm X and Huey Newton; you know, men who certainly had something to do with civil rights and important political issues. Itās the same āhistoricalā argument used to justify statues of Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson and Jefferson Davis. Fair is fair, right?
Iām pro-free speech, as well, but Iām not at all convinced thatās what this is about. If the student group is genuinely all about āprotecting and promoting the American ideals of free speech and civil public discourseā, then where are the invitations for speakers from the radical left? (And it would need to be the radical left just for the sake of parity). In truth, theyāre simply using āAmerican ideals of free speech and civil public discourseā as justification for the selective expression of an extremely narrow, right-wing viewpoint. Public discussion on UofAās campus could advance by making this inconsistency explicit.
I agree that this Nazi wannabe probably has a right to speak. Let him. But even before you organize the counterprotest, try to buy up a lot of the tickets to the event, and then give him a suitably lively welcome. And it goes without saying, a massive counterprotest that outnumber the bigots sends a powerful message.
I talked my kid out of applying there a few months ago. The counselor gave it to him as a match. Culturally, I donāt think so, on a number of fronts. If he had any Alabama roots maybe that would be a fight heād want. But it was just one of the āmatchesā the counselor gave him. A friend of ours went there for grad school so itās not like I had no clue what it was like on that campus.
Economic anxiety.
Itās like the slow-food version of facebook.
ā¦is not something the rest of us feel? Yet, having lived with it for over 30 years, Iāve still managed not to become a raging ijit.
