I have not read the past few pages so forgive me if it was discussed but what am I missing?
Apparently you are missing more than just a few pages of an online thread, but all of history and common sense.
What is the MSM going insane for?
It's not the MSM. Its everyone. Almost every republican politician, not to mention every centrist and lefty. People across the board are disgusted and horrified.
The president said that it's the alt lefts fault as well.
Well, yes, I guess he did say that. But that's not all he said. And it's not all he
didn't say.
I guess it's not politically correct as the swamp seems to love to protect the left.
Really? You think the President of the United States mainstreaming Nazis is about "political correctness"?
President Obama praised black lives matter.
This kind of moral equivalency is the type of thing we abhor when it's done by others against Israel and Jews.
Just as a reminder, civil rights for blacks is not that old. It's pretty recent. Our parents grew up in the times of segregation. If you for a second believe racism is over in this country, you're disingenuous at best, most likely a racist. This is to say, BLM as a grassroots movement is based on legitimate concerns and grievances. It is not a form of racist identity politics. True, BLM became a racist organization, but countless people who believe they are part of BLM mean to be part of #blm and not BLM Inc.
The white supremacists have no such grievances. They are purely and simply a hate group. You don't march with tiki torches and swastikas chanting "Jews will not replace us" because you're upset about illegal immigration or a Confederate monument coming down. You march waving Nazi flags because you believe
@ilherman and blacks are inferior and don't deserve to live.
To compare Obama mentioning BLM to what trump did today is sickening and disgusting. And I say that believing that Obama exploited racial politics for his gain.
However what's not true about it? Of course it was the fault of the left as well. You can't fight with someone if he doesn't fight with you. You see these alt left dogs trying to burn some white people alive. What am I missing?
This is one of the posters advertising the event:
Go look at the videos of them marching with their Nazi flags, badges and gear.
Then, a woman was murdered by one of those people.
To make like these are innocents who were just marching is to ignore American history. As mentioned, most of domestic terrorism is committed by white supremacists.
Did Antifa come looking for a fight? Probably. But "he started it" is appropriate for fights over Lego blocks and crayons.
When you are the president of the country responding to an act of terrorism, you call out the terrorists unequivocally, without hesitation, and without obfuscation. In the case you don't, and need to correct yourself struggling to read prepared remarks 2 days later, for goodness sake don't ruin the show the next day.
It is the easiest thing to repudiate Nazis. That he has such a hard time doing it speaks volumes. And the decent people that were marching in Charlottsville? Let's backtrack:
The term "Alt Right" was coined by the Alt Right themselves. It was not made up by MSM or leftists. The Charlottesville "protest" was to unite the alt right, and was pinned on r/the_donald, and other alt right havens. The Alt Right was marching with the Nazis, under the same flags and banners. That s because the alt Right *is* the identity politics of white supremacists. Steve Banon himself called his site the home of the Alt Right. Banon is a senior adviser to Trump. Trump was hesitant to condemn and disavow white supremacists during his campaign, and Banon said it was because "the racist stuff didn't affect the polls."
This is no conspiracy theory stuff. This is Trump straight up defending the "good people" in the Alt Right, who are one and the same as the Nazi KKK. He is your president. You are defending him. You are defending a man who is mainstreaming people who want you dead.
And please, don't "what about" me when we're talking about Nazis.