Mad NYC changed the name of Columbus Day? You’re not alone.
Open white supremacists are with you!
Columbus: “They never refuse anything that is asked for. They show so much love they would give their very hearts.”
In return, 9 year old girls were sold into sex slavery.
Captive women’s infants were fed to dogs.
4 years after he arrived, 1/3 of the Taíno people were dead.
Columbus and his men:
- roasted Natives on spits and burned them alive
- cut off children’s limbs to test sword sharpness
- fed Natives to dogs
- raped and enslaved children
- dismembered and beheaded Natives
If you think military personnel and law enforcement who express white supremacist sentiment shouldn’t be fired because “free speech” and “Muh First Amendment,” respectfully —
— shut the fuck up about Critical Race Theory for all eternity.
Let me explain something for the “Critical Race Theory is bad and should be banned because it talks about systemic racism and we’re postracial” [etc] crowd.
Have you ever heard of the Truth and Reconciliation commission?
Here’s something to consider:
Racism didn’t magically end after the Civil War. That’s why a thing called Reconstruction happened.
Racism didn’t magically end then. That’s why a thing called the Civil Rights Struggle happened.
Racism didn’t magically end then. That’s why a thing called BLM happened.
Okay, kids - I need an entertainment break, so gather round for the latest installment of:
NEO-NAZI NONSENSE STORY TIME!
“Bitchy Old White Men Catfight Edition: Tom Mezger vs. David Duke, Part II”
Refresher:
Metzger and Duke were super tight back in the contemporary white supremacist movement’s Swastika Stone Age. Duke recruited Metzger for the KKK in 1975; Metzger ran Duke’s political campaign.
Quick mini-thread on something that’s been on my mind:
Answering the “Given the risks, why do you work on the white supremacist movement?” question that inevitably comes up in interviews and casual conversation.
Most of us who work on political violence routinely receive threats of all types, with a range of seriousness / credibility.
I’ve faced this from anti-Abortion extremists, white supremacists, ISIS, etc.
I’ve ONLY been asked “why do you work on it?” about white supremacists.
(This isn’t a call-out, btw - I get the question all the time.)
“Given the risks to you, why do you do this?”
I normally have the standard answers that don’t require thought, like most of us - it’s instantaneous.
But in a media interview a while back, this changed.
“If he walks, that’s it. It’s over. This is Rodney King times a million. It’s hard for me to believe Chauvin isn’t a ghost skin who murdered George Floyd to deliberately burn the country down.”
If you’re following #closingarguments in the Chauvin trial — I recommend listening to the reactions of a former Neo-Nazi who once worked with Metzger on strategies of infiltrating police.