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PostSubject: Documentary: Alt-Right - The Age of Rage   Documentary: Alt-Right - The Age of Rage EmptySat Feb 02, 2019 10:46 pm

A truly frightening docu on the rise of neo-Nazism under Trump.  

Using the protections of the First Amendment and the anonymity of the internet, and with the knowledge that "one of them" now sits at the pinnacle of American government, white supremacists like Richard Spencer are actively recruiting young men.  What once was extremist and marginalized is becoming mainstream and widely shared, and as a result seems to be gaining strength and maybe membership.

What is the answer?

Yes, these people are a small minority but it is no longer safe, after Charlottesville, to ignore them.  Trump and the culture of Confederate revisionism are on the rise.

Do we give them all bus tickets to Idaho and build a fucking wall around them?  They are a cancer that thrives on misinformation and cowardice.
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PostSubject: Re: Documentary: Alt-Right - The Age of Rage   Documentary: Alt-Right - The Age of Rage EmptySun Feb 03, 2019 9:52 am

And yet, there's a grain of truth in their fears.

Whites ARE on the road to becoming a minority in the USA.  Multiculturalism is becoming the accepted norm, it is no longer acceptable to be a toothless sister-marrying Southern Baptist racist.  When millions of immigrants come into the country, they bring some of their culture with them, so you see Mexican restaurants and Spanish-language TV stations everywhere.  And Italian restaurants.  And Chinese, Thai, Cambodian and Ethiopian.  You see hajibs and turbans and dashikis on the street.  You get cab drivers who barely speak English (even if they're Polish or Ukrainian).

While cosmopolitan liberals see this as a GOOD thing, expanding the diversity and strength and vibrancy of what "America" is, a small contingent of illiberal whites (who mostly grew up in monochromatic insular provincial surroundings) find this threatening.

Street protests, street clashes, marching with picket signs and torches is not going to bridge this divide.  I'm not sure how you educate these people.  Like religion, these are not views gained by thoughtful reflection and thus open to change by reasoned argument.

It's comforting to think about establishing a White Homeland in the farmlands or Southern States inside the United States and forcing all like-minded individuals to move there, to stew in their own juices, learning first-hand what low-education, high unemployment, xenophobia, laziness and cowardice provide to sustain them.  But it wouldn't solve the problem and it wouldn't prevent envious people from blaming others for their lack of success.
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PostSubject: Re: Documentary: Alt-Right - The Age of Rage   Documentary: Alt-Right - The Age of Rage EmptySun Feb 03, 2019 10:28 am

It's not just White Nationalists of course. Islamic Fundamentalists feel god is offended by uncovered hair, the Amish feel god is offended by technology, orthodox Jews feel god is offended by clean-shaven chins. Religion and intolerance are closely linked. Religion is the root of all evil.
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