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Aug 13, 2018

Break It Down


In the wake of the far right’s flop and the left’s success, it’s worth looking at how both media and law enforcement have treated white nationalists and those protesting them. Police sheltered the Unite the Right attendees from when they arrived at Vienna Metro station in Virginia, through the rally where they were protected by multiple rows of fencing to after the rally when the attendees were loaded into vans and driven away. That law enforcement wanted to avoid violent clashes is understandable. But contrast this with how other protests are often handled both in the District and across the country. As the Atlantic’s Adam Serwer noted, “In Ferguson, black protesters had police snipers trained on them. In DC, the Nazis get a police escort.” If Black Lives Matter is going to be treated as potential troublemakers, white supremacists should at least face the same suspicion.


Press Poodles just can't help themselves sometimes. "...the far right's flop and the left's success..." - no fellas, the fact that a gigundous majority of us aren't malignant bigots doesn't make anybody "the left".

Yeah, OK, it can be kinda hard to sort thru it, but your insistence on framing everything in binary terms is a big part of your problem - which you're making our problem. 

And that's a fucking problem.

I think we're starting to push you to make some progress towards realizing that sometimes, there aren't two sides at all - that objective fact is a real thing.
2+2=4
Human activity is a big part of what's driving Climate Change
Vaccination works, and vaccines are not causing autism
But sometimes there are many many sides - or maybe we should drop the "sides" paradigm altogether and see if we can get a handle on the concept of 'aspects' or 'facets' or 'angles' - or whatever the fuck gets you out of the idiotic commitment that everything has to be perfectly equalized in order to thread the needle that the Marketing Dept says you have to thread in order to maximize ad revenues because "stoopid people buy boner pills and reverse mortgages too, y'know".

 Stop it. 

 Just. Fucking. Stop it.
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