rainerann
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I agree with what you are saying. However, I don't see how you feel that this isn't what this entire thread is about. That is the whole point of discussing whether or not we should join the hyped up narrative that this is was a "white supremacist" event and not an event organized for people who may have these views in order to create divisions.I think you completely missed my point...
So let me make this clear...
I believe that all oppressed people (including but not limited to the poor, the working class, women, and minorities) should stop bickering with each other, find common ground, and stand united. Together, we can dismantle the system that oppresses all people. We need to do this or things will never change.
Yet there are factions, through manipulation of higher powers, that work against this and pit us against each other. Radical feminists vs. men's rights activists, black vs. white, SJW vs. opponents to political correctness, etc. A lot of people buy into it and we all need to stop. It's a smoke screen used to turn us against each other and it needs to stop. There's more important shit we have to deal with and if we give into petty shit, we're letting them win.
I'm just a little confused by your position trying to encourage people to move away from being divided by the media's interpretation of events.
So far, I have concluded that this whole event was more than likely organized for these fringe groups. There is a strong possibility that these groups would never have organized a function for this subject on their own.
This is more than likely a way to shine a spotlight on the method of protest and make protest the subject of discussion because the end game is to get people to think that this is basically the only recourse the people have to oppose the government.
We are basically being trained to protest and will more than likely protest every future thing because they saw the protests in recent years trying to revive some spirit of protest we inherit as Americans from the time of the civil rights movement and the Vietnam war, not realizing that the enemy has been trying to overcome this method of revolution ever since.
The military has been studying crowd control methods for like over 40 years. To protest at this point, is to walk right into a trap. This is why I oppose all these forms of protests especially when they are about things like Trump being elected president and a vote being taken to transfer a statue to a museum. I just see them as methods of rounding up a large number of people at some point in the future.
In theory, we should have the freedom to protest. In practice, it is not a good strategy for a community movement at this point in history. This is, for lack of a better way to phrase this, exactly what the enemy wants.
What we should do is spend a lot more time reading and educating ourselves than gathering in social circles that only boost our egos in the short term and don't fight for anything that is actually needed to change the direction our country has taken.
That is all I heard on either side of this discussion from edited media clips is that this event served the ego. The one side were out there with their ego's raging that they were entitled to oppose "white supremacy." The other side has their ego's blazing that objecting to the removal of the statue is going to restore any of the freedoms we continue to lose.
However, still, I don't see how you support the dismantling of media created divisions by opposing the argument supporting giving people the freedom to assemble for their little event. This would also cure the media's division plague.
The whole thing could have been over and done with. They all would have gone home. We would have nothing to talk about if they had just let them have their little event and go home.
Freedom of speech is what allows competing arguments.
The argument of the fringe white supremacist groups that people are claiming make this event such an issue, have been competing with arguments from the civil rights movement for the last 50 years and losing consistently because the arguments from the civil rights movement are stronger.
That is the beauty of freedom of speech. You don't have to overcome something with force or violence in order to win the war.
Therefore, I just don't see how people don't have more confidence in this and could have just left these people alone, but they all decided to band together and let their egos get the best of them; and now the media has fodder to suggest that the US is divided by polarizing views, which I disagree with.
Although, this whole thread was a discussion on how this is not true. Therefore, we question the media interpretation of this event.
I mean really, I don't know if you are an American, but going out on a limb as though you are considering your contribution to the discussion, can you honestly say that you truly think there is a threat in any way, shape, or form of something like the Ku Klux Clan actually growing as a result of this event?
I just can't. I'm still pretty young, but that just has to be one of the things that are on the list of the least likely things that I think will ever happen in my lifetime.
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