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    Quote Originally Posted by Zetsubou View Post
    They are wearing MAGA hats to express their patriotic fervor and love of country. Even Kanye West wore a MAGA hat.

    Even if Trump will be out of office, some Trumpers will still wear MAGA hats.

    But I believe the kids should be more civil towards an elder, especially one who served his country.

    Everyone is entitled to the right to preserve their culture. White people trying to protect their white heritage is no more wrong than Mexicans, Native Americans, Blacks, Chinese and Japanese trying to protect their own heritages. But when a White man simply brags about his white heritage, he is called a racist and white supremacist.
    Except....'White' isn't a heritage, it's a social construct invented to keep those who WERE NOT 'white enough' down. I am, for example, a white man, but I don't celebrate 'white pride' because oppression isn't cool, and that's all 'white pride's is. Instead, I celebrate my Irish heritage, because that matters. Not my damn skin color...

    If these 'white heritage enthusiasts' were just 'preserving their culture', they would be embracing Irish pride, or Scottish pride, or German pride, or Polish, or Italian, or...well, you get the point. Instead, they are 'preserving' a culture that has never existed, has no roots in anything but racism (we all know Black and Latinx and Middle Eastern aren't 'white' enough, but neither have Irish, Italian, Polish, etc been 'white' enough for most who claim 'white heritage'...).

    The reason 'black' pride is acceptable while 'white' pride is gross is simple: black people, specifically in America, have had their racial and national and cultural identities stolen from them by slaves, who forced their slaves to adapt to white religious practices, white languages, white 'culture'. What we call 'black' culture has been built from the ground up by those who survived, and is thus, it's own unique-to-America culture, for good or ill, unlike 'white' culture, which only exists in response to the existence of non-whites.

    So, yeah...'white heritage' and 'white pride' are absolutely rooted in racism in a deeply inherent way, a way in which SPECIFIC national/cultural pride is not.

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    Those MAGA hats are the modern day version of the Klan hoods.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kevinroc View Post
    Those MAGA hats are the modern day version of the Klan hoods.
    Yup. Exactly.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zetsubou View Post
    Theodore Roosevelt was critical of hyphen Americans during the World War One, when Irish Americans and German Americans opposed America's entry in the war.

    "There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all ... The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic ... There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else."
    Good to know that even in the old timey Republican fantasy land where all the minorities knew their place and kept their mouths shut, that America was still torn by ethnic strife between various groups of white men.

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    "White heratige" is pretty much non existent. I'm white British, my heritage is in no way the same as white Dutch.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kevinroc View Post
    Those MAGA hats are the modern day version of the Klan hoods.
    With the exception that the hood at least granted the wearer anonymity, and didn't make us realize how punchable the faces of racists are.
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    On this date in 2015, 2016, 2017, as well as 2018, “Crazy/Stupid Republican of the Day posted profiles of Brandon Smith, a Kentucky State Senator who has distinguished himself by being such a fan of the coal lobby (having worked for them once himself) that he has introduced legislation that attempted to nullify federal environmental laws like the Clean Water Act. Perhaps we shouldn't trust Smith with his opinions on the environment, because he is also a climate change denier who once argued against the phenomenon in the Kentucky legislature because, as he put it, "We all agree the temperature on Mars is the same as it is here. Nobody will dispute that. Yet there are no coal mines on Mars." As it turned out, anyone with a lick of sense would dispute that, because it's ridiculous. How could Smith have said something so completely stupid? Well, not for nothing, but he does apparently have a drinking problem, as he was arrested for DUI in January of 2015 (conveniently right after his last election to a four year term). And after initially trying to get his DUI charge thrown out because of an 1891 Kentucky statute that said members of the General Assembly are "privileged from arrest" during a legislative session (because you'll always seem sympathetic when you try and convince the public you're above the law), Smith was eventually found not guilty on the technicality that he refused to submit to a breathalyzer. He’s still voting like he’s drunk, though, with votes for bills to try and require women get a medically unnecessary ultrasound prior to getting an abortion, a TRAP law to close all the abortion clinics in his state (unconstitutionally), as well as one of those transphobic bathroom bills.

    Brandon Smith has continued to implausibly remain in office, in spite of his arrest record, and the sheer audacity he has to pretend he’s above the law. Also, in 2018, he voted to cut the cost of living increases for teachers by 33%, but yet, he was re-elected in coal country with 73% of the vote. He then immediately tried to usurp the title of Majority Floor Leader of the Kentucky State Senate from colleague Damon Thayer.

    At least he failed, but this wanker his some high ambitions, and has shown he thinks he’s above the law, so we’re going to keep an eye on him.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Zetsubou View Post
    They are wearing MAGA hats to express their patriotic fervor and love of country. Even Kanye West wore a MAGA hat.

    Even if Trump will be out of office, some Trumpers will still wear MAGA hats.

    But I believe the kids should be more civil towards an elder, especially one who served his country.

    Everyone is entitled to the right to preserve their culture. White people trying to protect their white heritage is no more wrong than Mexicans, Native Americans, Blacks, Chinese and Japanese trying to protect their own heritages. But when a White man simply brags about his white heritage, he is called a racist and white supremacist.
    The bolded statement alone should be cause for concern but there is a lot more to this issue as a whole given it's historical context, especially in America.

    There is absolutely nothing wrong with celebrating German or Scottish or Irish or Greek or Swedish (etc) heritage -- in fact there are numerous organizations, clubs, and holidays (such as St. Patrick's Day) that allow people do so publicly and without criticism.

    The celebration of "white" heritage is quite a bit more questionable due to it's history of discrimination, oppression, and even genocide against other non-white "cultures" -- it's not the celebration of "white' heritage that people dislike but all of the racism and often outright hatred that comes with it.



    Go spend a few days on Stormfront and see firsthand how "white heritage" is promoted amongst those who wish to preserve and celebrate it most, then come back and tell us more about how there is "nothing wrong" with how they are seeking to protect said heritage" by discriminating against others and at times promoting a "race war" -- whether it's Hitler or Dylan Roof, the preservation of "white culture" often has horrible consequences for those who aren't white.

    Just ask the Native Americans like the one in the video, or almost any other "minority" who has been singled out for not having "white heritage" throughout our nation's history -- celebration of one's own ("white") culture is fine, but the denigration, oppression and sometimes outright murder of "non-whites" is an unnecessary evil that seems to always lurk behind said celebration.

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    "Fourteen Words, 14, or 14/88, is a reference to the fourteen-word slogan “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children,” or less commonly "Because the beauty of the White Aryan woman must not perish from the earth." The slogans were originally coined by white supremacist David Lane, a founding member of the terrorist organization The Order. The terms were coined while he was serving a 190-year sentence in federal prison for his role in violating the civil rights of Jewish talk show host Alan Berg, who was murdered by another member of the group in June 1984. The slogans were publicized through now-defunct 14 Word Press, founded in 1995 by Lane's wife to disseminate her husband's writings.

    Lane also used the phrasing in other pamphlets including the "14 points" of his White Genocide Manifesto and further in his 88 Precepts essay, stressing his support for racial and ethnic religions, opposition to universalism, his opposition to miscegenation, his anti-Americanism, and support for racial separatism. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, the Fourteen Words slogan is derived from a passage in Adolf Hitler's autobiographical book Mein Kampf, and since the rise of the Alt-Right, the Fourteen Words have become a popular Alt-Right meme.

    Lane was bitterly opposed to the continued existence of the United States as a political entity, labelling America the "murderer of the White race", and advocated domestic terrorism as a tool to carve out a "white homeland". To that end, Lane issued a declaration called "Moral Authority" published through now-defunct 14 Word Press and shared through the publications of Aryan Nations, World Church of the Creator and other white separatist groups, referring to the United States a "Red, White and Blue traveling mass murder machine" intent on committing genocide against white people. According to the declaration, "true moral authority belongs to those who resist" this purported genocide...

    In 2018, although dismissed by the US government as a coincidence, the Trump administration's United States Department of Homeland Security were accused of referencing both "88" in a document, and the Fourteen Words by creating a similar fourteen-worded title, starting with the same first three words ("We must secure"), in relation to illegal immigration and border control:

    We Must Secure The Border And Build The Wall To Make America Safe Again."

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteen_Words
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    Quote Originally Posted by Zetsubou View Post
    They are wearing MAGA hats to express their patriotic fervor and love of country. Even Kanye West wore a MAGA hat.

    Even if Trump will be out of office, some Trumpers will still wear MAGA hats.

    But I believe the kids should be more civil towards an elder, especially one who served his country.

    Everyone is entitled to the right to preserve their culture. White people trying to protect their white heritage is no more wrong than Mexicans, Native Americans, Blacks, Chinese and Japanese trying to protect their own heritages. But when a White man simply brags about his white heritage, he is called a racist and white supremacist.
    What is white culture?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Zetsubou View Post
    They are wearing MAGA hats to express their patriotic fervor and love of country. Even Kanye West wore a MAGA hat.
    No, they wore those hats to demonstrate their racism, xenophobia, homophobia and white privilege. Kanye wore one because he's a fucking moron.

    Quote Originally Posted by Zetsubou View Post
    Even if Trump will be out of office, some Trumpers will still wear MAGA hats.
    Highly unlikely. Once Trump leaves office, those hats will go into the trash.

    Quote Originally Posted by Zetsubou View Post
    Everyone is entitled to the right to preserve their culture. White people trying to protect their white heritage is no more wrong than Mexicans, Native Americans, Blacks, Chinese and Japanese trying to protect their own heritages. But when a White man simply brags about his white heritage, he is called a racist and white supremacist.
    That's because they often ARE racists and supremacists. Because butthurt white people go about "protecting their heritage" by hating, belittling and trying to crush the heritage of other races.

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    Quote Originally Posted by WestPhillyPunisher View Post
    Sorry, but those snot nosed punks made themselves the story by wearing those goddamn MAGA hats, I don’t give a shit if they’re high schoolers, they’re old enough know better. They’ve earned every bit of scorn they’ve gotten, and more.
    Doesn't help that one of the mothers blamed black Muslims for what her kid did that day.

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    Quote Originally Posted by shooshoomanjoe View Post
    Doesn't help that one of the mothers blamed black Muslims for what her kid did that day.
    Apparently he was defending himself from black Muslims by staring down an elderly Native American veteran, just as Trump is defending us from "Muslim terror" by refusing (brown-skinned) asylum seekers, separating their families, and attempting to wall off the Southern border.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Zetsubou View Post
    The native American guy was also the one who approached the teen, not the other way around. If he was attempting to defuse the situation between the MAGA teens and the black protesters, why did he not also approach the blacks group?

    Att first I assumed the kids were the ones at fault until I read the kid's explanation. The video was apparently spliced and edited to make the kids look bad.

    https://news.yahoo.com/students-seen...155221338.html

    https://news.yahoo.com/student-trump...032440995.html
    You saw the video just like everyone else here and you are free to draw your own conclusions as there's really no point in debating perspective in this matter.

    If you'd like to know why he didn't approach the "black" group then you should ask him: again, there is a lot of historical context here that you are either ignorant of or deliberately ignoring, and without acknowledgement of said history, there's likewise little context for any discussion of the subject at hand.

    With that in mind, I look forward to you addressing the issue of "white pride" brought up in my previous post.
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    Quote Originally Posted by shooshoomanjoe View Post
    What is white culture?

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    Either way wearing MAGA hats during multiple political marches featuring minorities is incredibly dumb.

    Though the 'Black Muslims' are afaik Black Israelites whom iirc are all kinds of crazy since they think their descended from Egyptians whom were all exclusively black and not the currently-unknown-but-highly-unlikely-to-be-african skin tones

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