Charlottesville Race Riot
There's always two sides to History, that of the informed and the other side. The latter may be well intentioned, but if they don't know why something is happening, then their anger, frustration and venting is all misdirected at the wrong thing. Hate is taught, and the left is being taught hate through the media (disinformation). Just about everything the left has raged against (in Charlottesville) shows which side they're on.
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A tale of two histories
It was the worst of times
I was talking to a good friend (and channeling the posts of a dozen other lesser friends) the other day about Charlottesville, and he was frustrated by what had happened and the President's speech in response.
His reality was:
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I asked them about antifa, if they knew why the guy drove into the crowd, and a bunch of parts of the story that CNN had omitted the context of, and they either hadn't heard of it, or had only heard of it through left-wing sources that doctored the record.
Heck, if I was a CNN watcher, or in a flock of like-minded friends, and that's all I knew about the events, I'd be pissed too. That doesn't make them evil, just wrong.
But I like data, and getting both sides of a story (and I usually lean towards the one that's being under-represented or reported). And in this case, there's two realities, the one above, and the rest of the story. The fact that they didn't know major parts of the story (that changes the context entirely), sort of proved my point that CNN and many outlets were lying (twisting).
It wasn't the worst of times
What is the real history?
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So we're divided: those that care about fairness to both sides, and those that listen to the leftstream media. And the media doesn't realize that their overreactions keep immunizing Trump against their overreactions (at least by those that support Trump).
This isn't an increase in violence/racism in the nation, and it's not a growing hate-trend, it's backlash against the hate-trend from the left. You don't turn people into racists just because the President moves from (D) to (R).
Conclusion
While I'm not a fan of the caustic white nationalists (or their rally's), and I suspect most of them wouldn't be fond of an Iranian guy with a Muslim father, the facts still matter. If broad brushing everyone for retaining our history as the KKK is OK, then that makes all those opposed to the the Klueless Klux Klan. Either that, or we should stop broad brushing for both sides.
But the facts include:
- The media got the story wrong, as have all my well intentioned friends ranting about how wrong this is, without a clue as to what happened (or a willingness to ignore their sides culpability in it).
- I've seen far more angry haters on the left than the right on this one. Which is NOT to say "your side is worse" and use moral equivalency -- it's to point out that justice needs to be blind and we need to use consistent moral and legal standards.
- The Supreme Court, history and any moral standard says that there is no exception on free speech for hate speech. Free speech only counts when you're letting people you disagree with, have their voice. Either you have a 1st Amendment and one group of fascists gets to complain when another group of fascists is destroying historical monuments, or you do not have free speech. The left is against free speech.
If you know the facts, the President's response was not unreasonable. The day after the event, the President was getting reports that antifa started it, with the help of the cops, and the media was complicit in a lie about what happened. So he said everyone should calm the fuck down (both sides should stop the violence). I agree. The sane should agree. The left will never agree -- because it breaks their premise that they are never wrong, and thus they never have anything to do with what goes wrong.
The media was intentionally not reporting the truth (or at least both sides of it), and they weren't going to start just because the President told them to, or said they were FakeNews. They were going to find any excuse to attack him and they did. But this polarizes the left-media defenders against the informed (that know better). Facts won't convince the left, and lies won't convince the right -- so we're are an impasse. But I have to think that the truth will win out long term, and that doesn't bode well for the Democrats.
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Other arguments
But Robert E. Lee was a racist that that fought for slavery.
Thus anyone who wants to see that statue is a racist too. Only this is an appeal to ignorance that shows why we need that Statue, because:
- Lincoln offered to let the South have slaves forever (Constitutional Amendment), if they came back (Corwin Amendment).
❝ "I understand a proposed [Corwin] Amendment to the Constitution has passed Congress, to the effect that the Federal Government shall never interfere with the domestic institutions of the States, including that of persons held to service. Holding such a provision to now be implied constitutional law, I have no objection to its being made express and irrevocable.” ❞
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- The South offered to give up slavery entirely, if the North let them go (and they considered it again, if it would get Europe on their side).
- Lee gave up his slaves before the war, Grant kept his until the end.
❝ "slavery as an institution, is a moral & political evil in any Country" ❞
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So how was Lee fighting for slavery when he had personally given it up, and could have had slavery if he gave up the war? Lee fought for southern independence (there's a difference).
If the North wanted to end slavery, they could have made that deal, but they refused. They could have agreed to buy all slaves (pay for the slaves freedom) as had happened in the UK and elsewhere, and that would have avoided the civil war and freed the slaves too.
So the argument against Lee because "Slavery" is based on impassioned ignorance, and proof why we need the statue. The point is this is a lot more complex for some people than for others. Many of us disagree with slavery but recognize that Lee fought better and more honorably (for the wrong cause) than the North did (aka Sherman). If we must tear down Lee's statue, then certainly Lincoln, Washington, Jefferson, and more should come down too.
More info at: Free Speech and the 1A
False Flag Frame-up?
There's some conspiracy stuff, that is curious: was this all a false flag effort by the far left?
Why would the right think that?
- Because that is a normal tactic of the left
- there's some evidence it might have been (busses with both sides arriving in unison, evidence of that in the past by BLM and antifa)
- the organizer of the National Socialist rally in Charlottesville (Jason Kessler) was an Obama supporter and Occupy Wall Street activist
- even far-left hyper-partisan hate groups like SPLC admits there's some questions about his past
- the medias blatant partisan propagandizing in misrepresenting what happened
Stuff like that.
It doesn't mean it was real, or wasn't. I suspect there was some false-flagging by the left, and the media is disinterested in that. But that's not exactly a full blown conspiracy between the two. Just that the Soros flock and the left believe any evil action by their side is justified, so a few will do things like this. And that the media is incompetent and partisan so won't report on it. But that doesn't mean that there weren't real Neonazi's, White Supremacists, and asshats out there on both sides that were sincere. Just some of the seeding or escalation had some paid propagandists and agendas.
But whether you believe in it, or not. (Or how much). The facts are there's enough there, to convince many Trump supporters of what they want to believe: that the media is full of trolls and liars that are out to get the administration. And thus if Trump was impeached for something like this, it would have millions of people pissed off at the false-flag coup that the Democrats are trying to do (that started with tantrums the day they lost the election, if not before). So the more the media (like CNN) puts out one side's propaganda and conspiracy theories about Trump being in cahoots with the White Nationalists, or sensationalizing things like this, while ignoring the worse that's happening the other way, the more divided we become as a country, between the half informed CNN watchers, and the fully informed (those that pay attention to what others are saying).
- https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/jason-kessler
- https://www.allenbwest.com/2017/08/19/bombshell-new-evidence-suggests-charlottesville-complete-set/
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPNiZxeI1H0&feature=youtu.be
References
- The left beats people out of love:
- Compared to Obama:
- Took many days for Obama to not call terrorism what it was: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jul/9/obama-says-motives-dallas-cop-killer-micah-xavier-/
- An excellent point about how the media didn't care when it was Obama doing the same things: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/15/opinion/trump-obama-terrorism-charlottesville-isis.html
- Vice Mayor = Biased/Bigot:
- Police and Mayor caused it:
- https://medium.com/@StyxEinzig/the-mayor-of-charlottesville-caused-3-deaths-not-richard-spencer-196659cb10c5
- http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/14/heres-how-the-virginia-state-police-provoked-violence-at-charlottesville/
- http://truthuncensored.net/charlottesville-police-come-forward-told-stand-ignite-race-war-video/
- Police Chief says, "Nuh uh": http://rare.us/rare-news/across-the-u-s-a/charlottesvilles-police-chief-speaks-after-criticism-they-failed-to-maintain-order-at-rally/
- The driver only tried to drive through the crowd AFTER his car was hit with a bat (flag). :
- https://streamable.com/21gc9
- That does NOT excuse the act, but it sure changes the context from a terrorist planning on killing innocents, to a rage induced incident AFTER he was assaulted. But you don't see these facts on the left-o-sphere like CNN or MSDNC.
- The side of the story that you don't hear in the media:
- The New Republic gets it, that the hate on the left, is fueling the NeoNazi's and the backlash against them. They get that the left is being played -- they just miss that it's the leftist politicians and leftist media that's stoking the fire: https://newrepublic.com/article/143933/lefts-supporting-role-american-hate-theater
- Shitshow is just starting: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-extremist-show-is-just-starting-1503092033?tesla=y
- Journalists getting targeted: http://www.poynter.org/2017/in-charlottesville-and-elsewhere-u-s-journalists-are-being-assaulted-while-covering-the-news/470839/
- What really happened: https://www.allenbwest.com/2017/08/13/ok-folks-heres-really-happened-charlottesville-everyone-missing/
- Woke Girl on truth about Charlottesville: https://www.facebook.com/WorldCloudLA/videos/599970963460423/?hc_ref=ARSGT5dZBWY7aDhRnrFPL2SfwRIUtd11FYP2TmNiQFgBCVlt6iAWNQk8n28-Af5RdZo
- Dems impeachment tourettes:
Propaganda
- Politico plays these lies to inflame the gullible (the DNC base). "A young man fueled by hatred drove into a crowd of people peacefully protesting". You get dumber reading this stuff: http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/08/14/what-i-saw-in-charlottesville-could-be-just-the-beginning-215487
- Then Politico does another, admitting Trump denounces racism on Monday, but alleging he didn't do it on Saturday or dozens of other times: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/14/white-house-defends-trump-charlottesville-241604
- The AP plays up planned terrorism angle (and violent history of beating his Mom), but doesn't ask the question, "why wasn't a guy with rage issues taken off the streets?" It sounds like he had a series of escalating crimes while the government failed society by doing nothing about it: https://apnews.com/ffec757d4c084bcda2c9ee4224e91c36
- Guns did it: http://www.theblaze.com/video/anti-gun-activist-is-predictable-in-who-she-blames-for-charlottesville-tragedy/
- NPR Fake Poll. They trump up anger against Trumps weak response, then they poll their viewers in a loaded way, and are shocked it shows what they want: http://www.npr.org/2017/08/16/543957964/poll-majority-believe-trump-s-response-to-charlottesville-hasn-t-been-strong-eno
- It helps to know that DailyWire's editor (Ben Shapiro) is rabidly anti alt-right, so is not above lying (spinning) on what/who they are. I generally like Ben, and don't like the "alt-right", but that doesn't mean I support disinformation, half truths, and distortions that help my cause (which Daily Wire does):
- This starts well with a few facts, then ends as a joke (blaming Trump for the alt-right). If that's true, then Obama was responsible for encouraging Islamic terrorism (by not calling them by name). Just pick one standard: http://www.dailywire.com/news/19658/7-things-you-need-know-about-charlottesville-ben-shapiro
- This one misleads all the way through: http://www.dailywire.com/news/9441/actual-conservatives-guide-alt-right-8-things-you-michael-knowles