THE POLITICS OF THE BRAIN DEAD...
There is something incoherent about these signs at a recent Portland rally.
How can being an inclusive and pluralistic society be considered genocidal? We are a nation of immigrants. Historically the only "natives" in America were Indian nations who faced slavery, wars of extermination, political repression and extermination by white colonists. These signs are fake history and White Nationalist/Racist signs.
Polls show a slim majority of White Americans feel they are being discriminated against. But that slim majority are not ALL White Americans, But this is the fear and ignorance Trump tapped into. Fact more people voted for Hillary than Trump.
There is no "war against White people" but American history is replete with examples of genocide against Native Americans, African-Americans, Latino-Americans and Asian Americans. Our history of marginalizing women and gays could be added to this list. Why is diversity a code word for the haters?
Now if one wants to focus on the plight of the working class, of all colors, genders and sexual orientations - then you have a case. But that would be too complex for these modern day Know Nothings.
Since Charlottesville, Right Wing groups like Portland Prayer (actually based in Vancouver, Wa) have sponsored rallies in Portlandia with followers holding signs like the above. Naturally enough in the dialectic of protest such groups have gotten the attention of counter demonstrators including fringe groups now like ANTIFA aka anti-fascists.
Street politics has become political theater not a search for common ground.
Portlandia anarchists can be identified by their covered faces and black clothing. But they have always been a marginal group in the ranks of Oregon politics but given their and their neo-Nazis counterparts willingness to engage in or encourage violence they get a larger than justified attention by the local and national media.
All political movements of the Right and Left include shirttail relatives who are willing to engage in violence. But with the election of Trump these groups have been "normalized" as civic discourse has been debased.
Having attended anti war rallies back in the day in the Nixon era in DC while hundreds of thousands of people marched up Pennsylvania Avenue peacefully, after the marches were over there would be fringe elements who burned trash cans or broke windows as a form of protest. But this fringe was insignificant and didn't injure or kill anyone!
Now the media is fixated on the fringe - "it has to bleed to lead."
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