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White Nationalism is such an ill-understood term that you can easily turn it around.
I also like turning White Supremacist into "anyone who absolutely never wants to live under the political rules of Muslims, Latinos, or Blacks". Under this definition, Tariq Nasheed becomes a White Supremacist (which is funny as hell), and you can legitimately say things like, "As a White Supremacist, I welcome White Supremacists of all races into America, but I feel sorry for the White Supremacists who constantly pretend not to be White Supremacists."
That's well and good, but recall that the
symbolism that goes with those words doesn't just go away with a clever reframe. And remember Bosch's "degenerate triad" of how they operate - irrationalism, emotionalism, and symbolism.
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The RAISE ACT is more easily passed, because the same people who condemn the RAISE Act also condemn the Richard Spencer march but not BLM violence, nor the destruction in Berkeley.
While there will be a strong overlap with this, it's not necessarily so. And now you have a visual symbol where the media gets to go "see - these are the people who want the RAISE act passed!"
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Building the wall is made easier, because the same people who condemn the wall also condemn the Richard Spencer march but not the pro-active deportation of illegal immigrants, resulting in a less safe country.
Facts are of only secondary importance. It rather all ties into the narrative that's always been prominent which is that they get to say "see - THESE are the people who want the wall built!" The subject now isn't about protecting your country and borders, which this would have been if these idiots wore MAGA hats and carried Gadsden flags. Now the attention is drawn only to race.
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Fighting against tech-censorship is made easier, because the same people who want tech-censorship also condemn the Richard Spencer march but not Keith Ellison's praise of Kim Jong Un as "acting more responsibly than Trump".
Or more likely it will serve as confirmation bias that the "Alt-Right" (now a poisoned term that can mean anything they don't like, unlike last year) needs to be censored so that stuff like this becomes harder for them to do.
That's more than likely how it's going to go.
And for what?
What did this do? All this over some fucking
statue?
If real damage was to be done to our enemies, there would be a massive march on Google (which will still happen) carrying "Goolag" signs and that sort, which was brilliant memeing. Now it's all subsumed.
Reasonable people here will disagree with me. That's fine. But I can almost guarantee that this advances the ball not one inch down the field. Quite the reverse.
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CNN stoking violence.
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CNN has gone full "punch a Nazi" and we all know Nazi is anyone who disagrees with Jake Tapper, and of course all Trump voters.
And if this was like the rally that Lauren Southern and other people were in during May at Berkeley, this would be very profound.
Now there will be almost no objection to this that actually gains traction thanks to those torches.
Thanks again, cosplayers!