Ummm…is this ‘student group’ made up of the disgruntled Right who demand the right to ‘rise again’ and ride around drunk waving the Confederate flag? I’m all for free speech…are they going to let OTHERS speak? Or doesn’t it work that way?
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On a side note, I wonder how large the membership of the ‘inviting’ college group actually is. Do they claim a large membership or are they a 10-person group or something like that?
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Who the HOOEY is the guy on the bottom “Ammoland” photo? Holy smokes, do you think he got any ‘wimmin’ with THIS pose? YIKES! And I mean that YIKES and raise it to DOUBLE YIKES!
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Dude, you’re not white. Look in the mirror.
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This type of “free speech” is anything but free. Public colleges are forced to spend thousands of dollars of taxpayer funds to provide security for speakers who will spark violent confrontations on campus. Meanwhile private colleges can refuse to host the Gnatzi provocateurs
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The group’s red logo features the hissing rattlesnake of the Gadsden Flag—an image that gained popularity with the tea party movement.
The Gadsden Flag was named after the Alabama Shopping Mall which was forced to ban then 30 plus year old Assistant District Attorney Roy Moore from its premises where he habitually scouted out and hit on underage women.
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On a related note, 25% of Alabamans are functionally illiterate: http://literacywa.org/literacy-facts-2/
Coincidence? We report, you decide.
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Really nice and useful post
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Understand that a lot of people only want those football players around on game day and at selected athletic department events. They also don’t want too many of them around. In addition, these same people are okay with the other black athletes, but just not too many, and they can’t bring any friends to campus. U of A still prides itself on its openly segregationist fraternities and sororities.
That Taylor was invited to speak there, in the age of tRump, is no surprise.
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And why is he pointing his gun at his dick?
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At the University of Alabama?
Spencer recently quit the tour, saying the events were no longer “fun” because they were often derailed by large counter-protests by anti-racist activists.
Sounds like fun to me
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Take your pick from the list of definitions for “white nationals” from the Urban Dictionary!
Because it’s really “civil” to blame black and brown people for all that ills white people.
No loss if the gun goes off.
I’m with him. I really don’t think there was a single Jew in the Third Reich in the 1930’s who didn’t grasp that speech could constitute terrorism. It’s all about the power imbalance.
Then we need to change the definition of what “terrorism” is. Probably need to take a look at repealing the First Amendment too. I’d suggest waiting until a Democratic administration or a resurgence of rational political discourse, whichever comes first. Personally I’ve been willing to tolerate hate speech, including and especially hate speech directed at a group I happen to belong to, rather than take those steps.
It’s the part where they just take the name of a movement that was actively pro-Nazi and snicker derisively, hiding behind the same pretexts that the America Firsters hid behind, and, oh yeah, take that nice white and red banner, lacking only a black cross device of some kind, that makes me want to vomit.
I watched a co-worker break down last week because ‘they are just killing us.’ Can you guess what her race is? Yea buddy, it’s terrorism. And frankly, if you don’t see it as such, you’re part of the problem.
The First Amendment says that the government can’t stop you from saying things that are evil. It doesn’t mean private citizens have to stroke their chins and nod thoughtfully, like totebaggers listening to a David Brooks TED Talk, to Nazi orators spewing poison. And the intended victims hear it loud and clear, even as those of us who aren’t in the targeted groups fall back on our First Amendment dogmatism.
Whatever the criticism of memetics as a science, the historical truth is that bad memes take hold when they hit a critical threshold of respectability and they kill, not just by ones or twos or hundred, but hundreds of thousands and millions.
We are actively being groomed for, at best, acquiescence to an atrocity, as surely as the Turks, the Germans and the Japanese, ethnic Serbs and Rwandan Hutus before us. We are seeing the unspeakable and unthinkable normalized into legitimate subjects for discourse. Because that’s what this is–the normalization of the ideas and speech that underpin mass murder in a way that numbs us to the underlying object and paves the way to mass acceptance and to passivity among those who don’t believe when those who do take power.
Speech like this must be stigmatized, marginalized, actively identified as abnormal, beyond the pale, depraved and the people who pretend to reason and tell you that it needs to be given a fair hearing likewise need to be stigmatized and marginalized. Because otherwise, evil poisons the entire civic culture.