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CNN : "Trump unveils 'Platinum Plan' for Black Americans"
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Can't help feel this "platinum" thing is just a pretext for Trump to try to connect antifa with the KKK in the public discourse.
These are also things Trump would never do. This isn't a bill he's signing, it's an empty promise to try and gain a few votes.
He doesn't deserve credit for knowing a couple of things his opponents want to hear.
He's also said, over and over, that he has a health plan, and its one point: protecting pre-existing conditions. He has no plan, and literally has a lawsuit pending in the Supreme Court to do the exact opposite.
Why the fuck does it matter if the Klan has only killed "less than a hundred thousand people." Who tf cares about the number? Even if somehow only one black person was targeted by the KKK, they should still be gone after. Even if there are more relevant groups out there in the current day, no one is saying "just target this one group, the others do not matter." Fighting white supremacists should be a effort that does not have a specific endpoint. There will always be new groups out there who will take the mantle of white supremacy. They should be constantly monitored and trampled every time they start to rise. Fighting white supremacy is a never-ending battle that should be a one-and-done effort.
Also, even if it is not against the law that people who merely belong to an organization aren't liable for it.....who cares? Honestly that shouldn't be a roadblock. If a law is bad, then it should be changed to fit with current times. Just because something is not right legally does not mean that it is right morally.
And before you reply saying "...but they'll just target antifa/BLM too," well, that's already been happening? I guarantee that has already happened to Black activists both in the past and in the present. We gotta stop worrying about what the other side will do, because I guarantee they have already helped orchestrate terrible things to minority activists, even if things have not been officially put into law.
Anitfa really should've called themselves Antifascists. I know this amounts to victim blaming, but I'd rather everyone who tries to demonize Antifa had to actually say ANTI FASCISTS are bad with a straight face.
Nah, it'll be a toaster with the Trump name slapped on it that will burn your house down after you use it twice
I'm glad someone's finally speaking about the true source of all anti-black racism: antifa.
The doublethink mechanism of trumpers now dictates that antifa are the real fascists, or something. Also that they are responsible for every bad thing under the sun: deaths during protests, california fires, the impending destruction of america by commies working in the shadow, and the murder of the christian God.
The doublethink mechanism of trumpers now dictates that antifa are the real fascists, or something. Also that they are responsible for every bad thing under the sun: deaths during protests, california fires, the impending destruction of america by commies working in the shadow, and the murder of the christian God.
Oooh, the PLATINUM plan. Well, as long as those plebes on the gold plan don't get the same shit, let's do it.
Right? Black peoples have been asking for this country to treat the KKK as the threat it is since Antebellum and haven't been listened to. The idea that prosecuting a genocidal organization (one he resisted condemning back when they were at the center of the harm caused in Charlottesville) should be some incentive dependent on endorsement is fucking gross.
Putting KKK and Antifa in the same section of bad is quite literally the same as when he said "there were fine people on both sides."
The right's hate over Antifa is funny. You want to be Antifa? Just say you are. Boom. There's no leader, no structure. And what the movement is fighting against is literally fascists. How can anyone think that's bad? When I see right wingers complaining about them I wonder "what you mothers like nazis?". How can you be against fighting nazis?
Anywho, I voted early in person straight down the Democrat line. Did my part. Hoping for the best.
In terms of assessing the moral depravity of the Klan (which is of course beyond question), it doesn't matter at all. I was merely saying that it isn't a remotely accurate figure. I'm a historian (or was, before I became a lawyer).
I don't object to proposing to change the law (though it's open to question whether the US Constitution would allow it, if the people wish it it's worth finding out). I was attempting to answer the question some were asking in here as to what current US law is regarding membership in organizations. And further, explain why such a law isn't something that liberals have heretofore been pushing for, because there are a misconceptions in existence about both.
You saw this also in a petition that was circulating a month or two ago calling for the State Department to designate the KKK as a terrorist organization under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
Do they not even realize how they're own beloved conman works his schemes and how this as much of a load of shit as his early "support" of the LGBTQ+ community? They aren't this fucking dumb.... right?
No, no, no, you misunderstand. He just intends to root out all the uppity ones. Once they are gone, good docile black folks will be better off than ever. Nobody has ever done more fo-- oh fuck it lol.
That name, I can't decide whether it speaks to Trump being a racist piece of shit or the tackiest motherfucker on Earth. Another case of whynotboth.gif
That is the right's argument for everything. They've been working on it for 60+ years at this point. They would argue "trust common sense" doesn't have the data to back it up if you used the common sense approach.