'White supremacists by default': How ordinary people made Charlottesville possible

CNN ^ | August 24, 2017 | John Blake,

[detective]

Blame President Trump for his tepid moral response. Call the neo-Nazis and white nationalists thugs. Fill your Facebook and Twitter accounts with moral outrage.

But the tragedy that took place in Charlottesville this month could not have occurred without the tacit acceptance of millions of ordinary, law-abiding Americans who helped create such a racially explosive climate, some activists, historians and victims of extremism say.

[Adder]

Yes, it is our fault.

And danged proud of it too.

These idiot chatterers need to be told to eff off.
Sneeringly and dismissivly, if possible

[Harpotoo]

8 years of obunghole fanning the flames but its Trump’s and US, his voters at fault:-)

[Da Coyote]

Is not everyone thankful to GOD that the CNN folks were so very stupid that there was no way that they could enter a useful profession requiring intellect and talent, such as engineering, medicine, flying, etc?

[cdcdawg]

Yeah, they were all moving to Canada, and not Mexico, as I recall, but none actually left.

[Steve_Seattle]

" . . . the voters who elected a reality TV star with a record of making racially insensitive comments, the people who move out of the neighborhood when people of color move in, the family members who ignore a relative's anti-Semitism -- who give these type of men room to operate, they say."

My older daughter is a Bernie supporter who made anti-Semitic comments about my ex's then-boyfriend. There are "people of color" in my neighborhood and I am not planning on moving out. (In fact, my own girlfriend is a "person of color" (Filipina) and she voted for Trump.)

I would say that the millions of people who prepared the way for Charlottesville were those progressives who have turned a blind eye to Antifa and BLM violence for the past several years, the same people who prepared the way for the guy who tried to kill ten Republican congressmen, and who have been trying to induce someone into assassinating Trump for the past year.

[montag813]

Whites ARE supreme. We don't have to prove it. Look around. It's a world designed by White Europeans. Even Asians embrace it. English is dominant, as is the U.S. dollar. Medicine and technology are totally dominated by White inventions and innovations.

And there is no downside. Yes we owned slaves. SO WHAT? Who didn't? Nearly every society and culture in history has as well. Why hate only WHITES for it? The Muslims started the trade, as did Black Africans. Police don't go after drug users, but the dealers. So why punish the White users of slaves more than the Muslim sellers? Sorry, minorities. But we Whites have absolutely NOTHING to apologize for. But YOU have endless things for which to humbly tell US "Thank you!" Well....YOU'RE WELCOME!

[erkelly]

Oh well, since I already became a racist almost 10 years ago as I did not agree with most of Obama’s agenda, I might as well be a white supremacist as well. This reads like the sort of grandiose self-important feel-good essay I might have written in high school — everyone around me is a racist but certainly not I, of course, therefore from my lofty perch of student-hood, knowing so much more than everyone else at at my young age, I could smugly and priggishly lecture my ignorant know-nothing elders. Of course, in my time, the hot topic was the war in Viet Nam and the draft rather than racism, although racism was always a good fall-back topic, more original, more intellectual, when everyone else was writing about Nam. These youngsters have not come up with anything new and they are getting quite tiresome!

[nanetteclaret]

Dear CNN:

Whatever.

Signed,

An Ordinary American

[P-Marlowe]

Can I sue this B@$+@rd for Libel?

[equaviator]

“Who is John Blake?”

He is a “black inferiorist”.

[Just mythoughts]

Personally, I am sick of this misappropriation of the word ‘slavery’... This government has enslaved all Americans into debt that the majority will not live to see their debt paid off. Who are the slave masters today... US government, who treats US citizens as endured servants and IF you do not pay them, they will lock you up and take every thing you have. One can pay for a piece of property, but IF the property taxes are not paid the county will take your property. Government is color blind in their ownership of ‘we the people’.

[palmerizedCaddis]

I have a couple of thoughts wrt Charlottesville.

I’ve heard from numerous sources that the trouble makers, antifa, blm, and KKK all rode in together on the same busses. sounds like a Soros operation.

The other thought, I recall a conversation in a pub in aSheville years ago. A shrewish lesbian and a group of local yokels were debating some local issue. The condescending lesbian countered with “ Opinions are like @ssholes, everyone has one. One of the hicks countered with “Since there is a market for Preparation-H, folks seem to suffer from one or the other or both”.

Ms C. bought them all a round. ROTFLMAO.

Caddis the Elder

[A_Former_Democrat]

Yep . . . let’s see the world get along without us

Screw the white-haters

[arthurus]

The problem, of course, is the existence of White People. That problem has to be solved.

[The_Media_never_lie]

But the tragedy that took place in Charlottesville this month could not have occurred without the tacit acceptance of millions of ordinary, law-abiding Americans who helped create such a racially explosive climate, some activists, historians and victims of extremism say.

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Nor could it have happened without the active planning of well financed Jason Kessler, and Obama supporter, one knowledgeable observer says.

[arthurus]

If all white folks are racists and if whitefolks’ racism is why other people can’t get prosperous then whatcha gonna do? The existence of white folks is the defined problem. Is Mr Blake calling for extermination? You say that problem must be solved and imply that only by the disappearance of white folks can it be solved. That sounds like a call to genocide, no? If enough non-white people say these things the white folks, at least the ones in the South and Midwest are going to come to believe it and then the war is on. Do the minorities think they can win it and get rich? Or are they counting on the military, which is mostly white folks and minority people that think like white folks, to do their work for them?

[NativeSon]

All things considered, I'd rather live in this American than one ruled (?) by American Indians. Don't get me wrong, I'm proud of my people and value the traditions, ways & beliefs given to me but there is no comparison.

The Left believes that they are dividing "Whites" with all this nonsense, they are wrong. The "Whites" have never self aligned or grouped like other peoples. They are not one people from a common source or experience.

White people today are the product of vastly complex, different and ancient origins. All one needs to do, to realize this, is study the history of one, small country or region, say, Switzerland.

If the Left persists in attacking White people on the basis of skin color, they will cause White people to align/group on that very thing.

The world, will for shake for it.

[AmericanVictory]

Affirmative action is based on a concept of white superiority. Logically, therefore, it should be eliminated, with its assumption of inferiority of non-whites.

[Paladin2]

I for one, am tired of the cultural appropriation of Western Civ by the ungreatful hordes.

If they are so concerned with the power of Western Civ, they need to separate themselves from it.

[TBP]

"unconsciously or inadvertently, all of us white folks participate in forms of supremacist thought and activity."

That is a racist statement. Any statement that says that all members of a racial group do ANYTHING is ipso facto racist. Period. Full stop.