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Right-wing vs. Left-wing Clashes [MOD NOTE POST #1]

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,323 ✭✭✭✭Danzy


    Tony EH wrote: »
    I believe that Free speech should be absolute. But, when your idea of free speech includes the disgusting things like the above you'll need to accept the consequences readily and I support GoDaddy's action.

    Scumbag level opinion.

    Completely agree.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,382 ✭✭✭Duffy the Vampire Slayer


    Meanwhile, hours after far-right neo-confederates kill a woman in the US, Cork hurling fans wave their flag in Croke Park. They should be utterly ashamed of themselves.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,323 ✭✭✭✭Danzy


    Meanwhile, hours after far-right neo-confederates kill a woman in the US, Cork hurling fans wave their flag in Croke Park. They should be utterly ashamed of themselves.

    Oh ffs, it is almost making a mockery of what happened in Charlottesville to try to equate the 2.

    Remember that not everyone else looks at the world or their local events through a U.S. prism.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,382 ✭✭✭✭Professor Moriarty


    Meanwhile, hours after far-right neo-confederates kill a woman in the US, Cork hurling fans wave their flag in Croke Park. They should be utterly ashamed of themselves.

    You know nothing about hurling or Cork.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,875 ✭✭✭A Little Pony


    one religion is worse than another (or better). Hate is taught and learned. 
    Being critical of a religious doctrine and thinking it is a load of absolute nonsense and is a violent ideology which underpins it is not hateful, it's just truth. Go ask multiple intellectuals like Dawkins or Sam Harris. Hate is preaching that white people are better than black people or black people are better than white people.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 5,382 ✭✭✭Duffy the Vampire Slayer


    You know nothing about hurling or Cork.

    I'm more of a gaelic football fan, that's true. But I don't see what more there is to know. Cork fans are waving a symbol of hatred at their games and are either too bigoted or too ignorant to stop.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,382 ✭✭✭Duffy the Vampire Slayer


    Danzy wrote: »
    Oh ffs, it is almost making a mockery of what happened in Charlottesville to try to equate the 2.

    Remember that not everyone else looks at the world or their local events through a U.S. prism.

    If events in the US don't interest them, then why fly a symbol from the US at games?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 945 ✭✭✭red ears


    I note there is planned " free speech rally " in Boston next week .
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    There is already some people loosely thrown out around labels & calling for political violence next week, these are dark days indeed when its normalised to call for violent opposition to someone expressing an alternative political view .
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    Incredible that people don't see a problem with antifa and those wearing the hammer and sickle, 100 million dead in the 20th century due to that ideology.

    People threatening violence against a free speech rally. Simply because they decide to label them as they see fit and then violently attack them. We live in dangerous times. Antifa are clearly the fascists of the 21st century.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,602 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    If events in the US don't interest them, then why fly a symbol from the US at games?

    The Confederate battle flag is a symbol for numerous things to different people.

    For the "Rebel County", it's thus.

    Don't read too much into it.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,023 ✭✭✭testaccount123


    Tony EH wrote: »
    The Confederate battle flag is a symbol for numerous things to different people.

    For the "Rebel County", it's thus.

    Don't read too much into it.

    This is ridiculous. Should they be allowed fly Nazi flags too? Has red and white on it sure.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 5,382 ✭✭✭Duffy the Vampire Slayer


    Sligo will be flying ISIS flags next year then.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,602 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    This is ridiculous. Should they be allowed fly Nazi flags too? Has red and white on it sure.

    If you're trying to conflate the stars and bars with the Hakenkreuz, you're barking up the wrong tree.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,323 ✭✭✭✭Danzy


    Sligo will be flying ISIS flags next year then.

    I saw a red and white flag one summer with a picture of Mao on it. I took it for granted that the person who had it does not intend or hope to murder 80 million Chinese people.

    I have seen USSR flags (rare), Che flags etc, an Ivory coast flag.

    Your U.S. centric world view is not followed by others, so don't project your own thoughts on to others.



    Nothing would surprise me about Sligo fans though, they would be doing it with clear intent.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,875 ✭✭✭A Little Pony


    Tony EH wrote: »
    Samaris wrote: »
    Yes, sometimes it should be, when symbols of its power are left to become symbols of a new generation with the same ideals as the old one. That is why the statues of dictators are famously toppled when the regime falls. It is a symbol of a new dawn without the evils of the past.

    It should not be forgotten, quite, but there is a clear line between remembering the past and idolising it.

    Personally, I think the statute should remain, although my politics would be different from those rallying around it and those of a certain mindset on this thread who most are familiar with. I find it particularly sad that it's a kicking off point for two groups of political idealogues.

    When you start whitewashing the historical record, nobody wins.

    Plus, and this is the important part, who gets to be the arbiter of what statutes stand and which ones fall? And what should be the meter for that arbitration?

    There are statues to Arthur Harris and Winston Churchill in Britain, one of whom murdered hundreds of thousands while in charge of Bomber Command and the other who had very dubious views on races oither than his own. Should they be toppled? There's a monument to the extermination of Dacia standing in Trajan's forum in Rome. Should we knock that down?

    Where does one draw the ine and who gets to draw that line?

    Also, Lee wasn't a dictator. He was one of the greatest military leaders of the time and recognised as such by both sides. He, no doubt, held some views we would consider awful today. But, he was very much a product of his time and his views would have been shared by plenty of his enemies as aswell.

    Statues act as reminders. They don't have to be an idolisation or a celebration and sometimes it's good for a nation to reminded of its dubious past as to not forget it, in favour of some happy clappy myth. Something which far too many Americans, in particular, are want to do.
    I pretty much agree with this. Lee after the war was only interested in reconciliation between North and South. He was a great general, along with Jackson. I have to say if I saw people trying to take down statues here in NI I would be very much against it. 

    Where do you stop with it all? Custer has statues, he was involved in killing Native Indians, Sherman has statues, absolutely HATED Native Indians. Look what he did to the Bison which the Native Indians relied on, told them to submit and forced them onto reservations. Why aren't people protesting against his statues?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,900 ✭✭✭InTheTrees


    red ears wrote: »
    People threatening violence against a free speech rally. Simply because they decide to label them as they see fit and then violently attack them.

    I dont understand why you have a problem with people expressing their opposition to nazi hate speech.

    If a group wants to goosestep through your town carrying nazi flags and idolising hitler then why shouldn't people come out against such stuff? I dont believe "antifa" is organising any of their own marches, they only appear when the nazi's come out with their flags and hate speech.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,221 ✭✭✭✭StringerBell


    Photo 1 in that meme, Antifa rioted in the streets + destroyed property to prevent free speech event with Milo, Photo 2 they violently attacked a guy for the thoughtcrime of wearing a Trump t shirt , photo 3 they attacked a guy who wanted to go to the Milo event to hear him speak, photo 4 they attacked an old age pensioner at a pro Trump rally .

    Doesn't relate in any way to the meme being factually incorrect though, and as such, unhelpful. It takes away from your argument when you use things like that to illustrate a point you are making. The point may have some merit but it gets lost when associated with something plainly incorrect.

    "People say ‘go with the flow’ but do you know what goes with the flow? Dead fish."



  • Registered Users Posts: 5,382 ✭✭✭Duffy the Vampire Slayer


    Tony EH wrote: »
    If you're trying to conflate the stars and bars with the Hakenkreuz, you're barking up the wrong tree.

    The flag Cork fans fly isn't the stars and bars, it's the battle flag of the army of Northern Virginia. The stars and bars was the official confederate flag.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,602 ✭✭✭✭Tony EH


    You know what I mean.

    Anyway, this line discussion is nonsense.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,747 ✭✭✭✭wes


    Tony EH wrote: »
    If you're trying to conflate the stars and bars with the Hakenkreuz, you're barking up the wrong tree.

    Your right there is no comparison.

    The Swastika is a symbol that has been by multiple ancient cultures, including the worlds 3rd largest Religion, Hinduism. If you use one outside the sub continent, people will associate it with Nazism.

    The confederate flag (battle flag), as per the name, was used by traitors to the US, who were pro-slavery. It has since been used by white supremacist, and idiots who choose to ignore what it represents. Its a lot like idiots with Che Guevara t-shirts if you ask me.

    It seems to me that one symbol has a far, far longer history, and is still used by the worlds 3rd largest religion, and the other has a far shorter history and is still largely used for that purpose today. So yeah no comparison between the 2.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,323 ✭✭✭✭Danzy


    The flag Cork fans fly isn't the stars and bars, it's the battle flag of the army of Northern Virginia. The stars and bars was the official confederate flag.

    No, it is whatever one the fellow hawking it on the Street has for sale that day.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,568 ✭✭✭BillyBobBS


    Meanwhile, hours after far-right neo-confederates kill a woman in the US, Cork hurling fans wave their flag in Croke Park. They should be utterly ashamed of themselves.

    :pac: Your's reaching now.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,323 ✭✭✭✭Danzy


    BillyBobBS wrote: »
    :pac: Your's reaching now.

    Cork is a bit like Germany these days though.

    Their campaign starts out strong but crashes out in a stunning defeat.

    He has to have his fun too.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,382 ✭✭✭Duffy the Vampire Slayer


    Danzy wrote: »
    No, it is whatever one the fellow hawking it on the Street has for sale that day.

    They cannot claim ignorance after the sheer number of reports on this, going all the way back to 2004 http://www.independent.ie/sport/hurling/rebels-up-in-arms-over-racist-flag-25900831.html. Continuing to buy it and wave it is disgusting.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,323 ✭✭✭✭Danzy


    They cannot claim ignorance after the sheer number of reports on this, going all the way back to 2004 http://www.independent.ie/sport/hurling/rebels-up-in-arms-over-racist-flag-25900831.html. Continuing to buy it and wave it is disgusting.

    Maybe it is time to come from behind the keyboard, go to the next Cork match and notify people what is acceptable or not.

    I'm being serious on that, if it is a serious concern for, **** or get off the pot and do something rather than preach on it.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 945 ✭✭✭red ears


    InTheTrees wrote: »
    I dont understand why you have a problem with people expressing their opposition to nazi hate speech.

    If a group wants to goosestep through your town carrying nazi flags and idolising hitler then why shouldn't people come out against such stuff? I dont believe "antifa" is organising any of their own marches, they only appear when the nazi's come out with their flags and hate speech.

    The Boston speakers are not Nazi's. This is the problem. You just decided to label them Nazi's.


  • Registered Users Posts: 5,382 ✭✭✭Duffy the Vampire Slayer


    Danzy wrote: »
    Maybe it is time to come from behind the keyboard, go to the next Cork match and notify people what is acceptable or not.

    I'm being serious on that, if it is a serious concern for, **** or get off the pot and do something rather than preach on it.

    If I was at a Mayo-Cork game and I saw someone with it, I'd tell them. Sadly, I don't get to many games these days, living abroad and all. Anyway, Cork people don't seem to show up to football matches in any great numbers.

    Your logic is pretty faulty though. They already know it's wrong. I don't need to tell them. They're just scumbags who revel in being controversey or edgy and therefore want to keep flying their disgusting flags.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,900 ✭✭✭InTheTrees


    red ears wrote: »
    The Boston speakers are not Nazi's. This is the problem. You just decided to label them Nazi's.

    Then they should leave their nazi regalia at home then.


  • Registered Users Posts: 726 ✭✭✭The Legend Of Kira


    Danzy wrote: »
    You probably consider yourself to have a liberal outlook.

    The problems with No Platforming is it helps the other side grow and secondly the people usually behind it are often fans of ideologies and movements that have killed as many as the other side have, in some cases more, though not as clinically brutal.

    Who could argue against No Platforming Communists, Maoists, Stalinists, Trots etc, the same logic applies, over a 100 million starved or shot in 30 years in just 2 countries alone. I don't support it though.

    Another one is that the people who are doing it tend to be very righteous and absolutist in their thinking, and this is a real problem in America today, the list of people who are deemed fascist or racist etc is growing by the day and often for the most innocuous of reasons.

    It is a powerful tool but it is used and abused by people who have more in common with John McQuaid than any one else.

    One set of authoritarian control freaks over another and they both want conformity to their beliefs.
    Another one is that the people who are doing it tend to be very righteous and absolutist in their thinking, and this is a real problem in America today, the list of people who are deemed fascist or racist etc is growing by the day and often for the most innocuous of reasons.  " 

    Its not just in America its happening in quite a few countries people crying " racist " or " fascist " making a scene over next to nothing.

    ( Example 1 )

    A college student gets harassed for the crime of having a dreadlocked hairstyle gets accused of " cultural appropriation " .




    ( Example 2 ) This time last year Ellen Degeneres gets called " racist " for this meme she posted online .

    http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-37107541

    ( Example 3 ) Even people of the Jewish faith get labeled as " nazi " these days by the left.

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    [font=Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif]The left throw the term Nazi around so often that it's starting to lose its meaning " + 1 .[/font]


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,323 ✭✭✭✭Danzy


    A great description of what happened from another site.

    "we have a violent clash between supporters of the two most hated and least successful ideologies in history in a country that will never adopt either and all we can do is argue about who is worse."

    I'm off.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 726 ✭✭✭The Legend Of Kira


    one religion is worse than another (or better). Hate is taught and learned. 
    Being critical of a religious doctrine and thinking it is a load of absolute nonsense and is a violent ideology which underpins it is not hateful, it's just truth. Go ask multiple intellectuals like Dawkins or Sam Harris. Hate is preaching that white people are better than black people or black people are better than white people.
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    [font=Georgia, serif] Being critical of a religion is not the same thing as inciting violence against a miniorty group ; from time to time some groups protest against Scientology most political activists don’t care about it; but if someone dares to publicly say something negative about Islam straight away right off the bat there is cries of racism and fascism etc but public protests against Scientology get a free pass without being labelled all those names ; I see that as ironic .[/font]


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,568 ✭✭✭BillyBobBS


    The worst of American society on view the other day. Both extreme hate groups. Sickening tbh...


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 16,620 ✭✭✭✭dr.fuzzenstein


    (Old fart voice) I blame the internet!
    But seriously, as we've seen on boards in miniature, a global unlimited platform for dialogue between all of humanity has (to my mind) led to a hardening, entrenchment and polarisation of views that has never existed in the entire history of the human race.
    What we're seeing is Generation Snowflake having a global sh*t-fit. It's no longer about dialogue, it's about "Ha! YOU are WRONG! In your face!". You have to win and the other guy has to lose. In other words, humans are assholes and we just cannot coexist in such large numbers.
    Maybe it's an automatic response to overpopulation. We are the most vicious, violent and unpleasant species on this planet after all.


  • Registered Users Posts: 726 ✭✭✭The Legend Of Kira


    InTheTrees wrote: »
    red ears wrote: »
    People threatening violence against a free speech rally. Simply because they decide to label them as they see fit and then violently attack them.

    I dont understand why you have a problem with people expressing their opposition to nazi hate speech.

    If a group wants to goosestep through your town carrying nazi flags and idolising hitler then why shouldn't people come out against such stuff? I dont believe "antifa" is organising any of their own marches, they only appear when the nazi's come out with their flags and hate speech.
    If the group were planning to bring " nazi flags " etc you would have a valid point, I haven,t see any evidence that they plan or intend to bring such stuff, that,s the problem someone cries " nazi " other people straight away assume the accused must be one & it must be true without doing any research into the accused to see what he/she are about before believing stuff based on rumours .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,365 ✭✭✭✭rossie1977


    Being a Jew and being a fascist are not mutually exclusive. The ruling Likud party in Israel have numerous fascist traits.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,246 ✭✭✭✭Dyr


    This is ridiculous. Should they be allowed fly Nazi flags too? Has red and white on it sure.

    I remember being at a cork/limerick match back in the eighties and seeing a cork lad dressed in a white butchers overcoat with a red swastika on it among other red symbols. :eek:

    They used to wave the older version of the hi no maru as well.

    Far be it from me to defend Cork GAA but the confederate flag is not really a big deal over here.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 726 ✭✭✭The Legend Of Kira


    Meanwhile, hours after far-right neo-confederates kill a woman in the US, Cork hurling fans wave their flag in Croke Park. They should be utterly ashamed of themselves.
    Political flags/political banners at sporting events in general I disagree with, when going to a game or sporting event you re not there to see banners making political statements etc, some people don,t know when to leave their political beliefs/opinions at the door .


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 945 ✭✭✭red ears


    InTheTrees wrote: »
    Then they should leave their nazi regalia at home then.

    They certainly should.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,349 ✭✭✭✭super_furry


    Political flags/political banners at sporting events in general I disagree with, when going to a game or sporting event you re not there to see banners making political statements etc, some people don,t know when to leave their political beliefs/opinions at the door .

    To be honest I can understand the Cork Confederate flag in the 80s and 90s because there was a bit of ignorance surrounding it. People over here at least didn't realise that it so wrapped up in the history of slavery and oppression and saw it as a 'Rebel' flag - something that fit well in Cork considering the colours.

    Don't think there's much excuse these days though.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,886 ✭✭✭beans


    Violence is never a valid response to ideas, even really bad ideas.

    Take the notion of a whites-only ethno-state. Is it better that people espousing these notions are no-platformed and shut down, so that the movement goes underground where it can gather subversive momentum; or that it be exposed to the light of rational discourse which should show it up for the evolutionary dead-end that it is?

    Let the racists speak, let them be shown up for the bullies and intellectual dwarfs that they are, let the paucity of their own arguments do the work for us.

    When you approach these people with a closed fist, violent response is certain. Violence is never a valid rebuttal.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,301 ✭✭✭Snickers Man


    Meanwhile, hours after far-right neo-confederates kill a woman in the US, Cork hurling fans wave their flag in Croke Park. They should be utterly ashamed of themselves.

    This is priggishness of the highest order.

    Do you really think Cork hurling fans are white supremacists, supporters of slavery and fans of the worst excesses of the Baluba that is in the White House now, just because they wave a Rebel Flag?

    Get over yourself. Please.

    The clue is in the name. Rebel County; Rebel Flag. That's why they fly it. Even though the name Rebel means completely different things in the different countries.

    The world is a big diverse place. Common values of decency, respect, individual liberty, equality, free speech, right to due process of law etc et are fine but in matters of culture and symbolism there will always be things that mean one thing in one culture and another elsewhere.

    Have a look at the following clip. It is a bunch of Orangemen in Belfast being deliberately provocative by playing a tune calculated to be offensive outside a Catholic Church.

    Now show it to an American and ask them what they think. They will probably wonder how on earth the lovable Beach Boys ditty the Sloop John B could possibly be a problem for anyone.
    Then tell them about the alternative lyrics that are sung by Rangers fans and their ilk.
    Does this now mean that when the Boy Scouts of America are next gathered around the camp fire and somebody wants to sing the Sloop John B they have to issue a "Trigger Warning" and say "Original Lyrics Only!!! Please nobody get upset" ?

    Come on.



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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,875 ✭✭✭A Little Pony


    Political flags/political banners at sporting events in general I disagree with, when going to a game or sporting event you re not there to see banners making political statements etc, some people don,t know when to leave their political beliefs/opinions at the door .

    To be honest I can understand the Cork Confederate flag in the 80s and 90s because there was a bit of ignorance surrounding it. People over here at least didn't realise that it so wrapped up in the history of slavery and oppression and saw it as a 'Rebel' flag - something that fit well in Cork considering the colours.

    Don't think there's much excuse these days though.
    Will the American flag be banned or shunned? 
    Anyone who wants just a white state is following the path of lunacy. Even as far back as Alexander or Caesar had different ethnicity in the respective armies and populace. Wanting solid controlled immigration and wanting some white ethno state is a different thing completely. 

    Do people think it was only white working class who built the rail lines in America or worked during the gold rush and mining? The Chinese helped build the original infrastructure of America. Nazism and Communism are two ideologies which just don't work in the real world, both limit individual freedoms, take away freedom of speech and take away your aspirations, I refute both equally.


  • Registered Users Posts: 277 ✭✭CosmicJay


    Hahaha, brilliant. You honestly, HONESTLY, see no difference between a car being driven deliberately and purposefully into a group of counter protesters after a heated day of rhetoric in a political flashpoint and a car veering off the road going into a random crowd of people?

    No-one needed to wait and see what happened in Charlottesville. From the moment the car was driven into a crowded group of anti-fascist protesters and then reversed and attempted to flee, it was obvious what happened.

    When cars or trucks plough into crowds in Europe going forward, people wont need to wait and see what happened, it will be obvious what happened.

    They will be some form of Islamic Extremist.

    Thanks for the clarification on your logic.


  • Registered Users Posts: 726 ✭✭✭The Legend Of Kira


    Political flags/political banners at sporting events in general I disagree with, when going to a game or sporting event you re not there to see banners making political statements etc, some people don,t know when to leave their political beliefs/opinions at the door .

    To be honest I can understand the Cork Confederate flag in the 80s and 90s because there was a bit of ignorance surrounding it. People over here at least didn't realise that it so wrapped up in the history of slavery and oppression and saw it as a 'Rebel' flag - something that fit well in Cork considering the colours.

    Don't think there's much excuse these days though.
    Will the American flag be banned or shunned? 
    Anyone who wants just a white state is following the path of lunacy. Even as far back as Alexander or Caesar had different ethnicity in the respective armies and populace. Wanting solid controlled immigration and wanting some white ethno state is a different thing completely. 

    Do people think it was only white working class who built the rail lines in America or worked during the gold rush and mining? The Chinese helped build the original infrastructure of America. Nazism and Communism are two ideologies which just don't work in the real world, both limit individual freedoms, take away freedom of speech and take away your aspirations, I refute both equally.
    Wanting solid controlled immigration and wanting some white ethno state is a different thing completely.  " + 1 I concur, I have never argued anywhere or on any thread for a " white ethno state  " what I have argued over for is a Immigration policy modeled on the Australian system of limited Immigration/limited time period for work visas & no entry for people who with serious criminal records, which I stand by .


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,747 ✭✭✭✭wes


    beans wrote: »
    Violence is never a valid response to ideas, even really bad ideas.

    They showed up armed to the teeth. This is a mockery of free speech and peaceful protest.

    Look at how the US police reacted to BLM protests and DAPL water protectors. The cops were armed to the teeth (the national guards were at the DAPL protests), but they treated the Neo Nazi's armed to the teeth and who murdered people with kid gloves. There is something profoundly rotten with how the US treats protesters based on the color of there skin.

    The Neo Nazi's have made it very clear that they have 0 intention of peaceful protests showing up armed to the teeth like they do.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,258 ✭✭✭Billy Mays


    CosmicJay wrote: »
    When cars or trucks plough into crowds in Europe going forward, people wont need to wait and see what happened, it will be obvious what happened.

    They will be some form of Islamic Extremist.

    Thanks for the clarification on your logic.
    Speaking of logic, can you explain why you think people who don't want Nazis and white supremacists marching through their town are communists?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,886 ✭✭✭beans


    wes wrote: »
    They showed up armed to the teeth. This is a mockery of free speech and peaceful protest.

    Right, to clarify I think what happened in Virgina was a huge failure on both sides, each showed up armed. It was never going to be anything other than a brawl, and that's a shame.

    I was more passing general commentary on the notion that it's ok to do violence to people based on their politics. 'Punch a Nazi', that idea. That's not ok.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,747 ✭✭✭✭wes


    beans wrote: »
    Right, to clarify I think what happened in Virgina was a huge failure on both sides, each showed up armed. It was never going to be anything other than a brawl, and that's a shame.

    Thanks for the clarification, but from what I see one side was armed to the teeth and that was the Nazi's that killed and injured people. There isn't really a equivalence.
    beans wrote: »
    I was more passing general commentary on the notion that it's ok to do violence to people based on their politics. 'Punch a Nazi', that idea. That's not ok.

    Yes, I agree punching any peaceful person is wrong, regardless of how loathsome there ideology is.

    The fact is that these Neo Nazi's aren't peaceful, and there attacks are becoming more and more common, and they have allies in the White House, with Miller, Bannon and Gorka still inexplicably there.


  • Registered Users Posts: 277 ✭✭CosmicJay


    Billy Mays wrote: »
    Speaking of logic, can you explain why you think people who don't want Nazis and white supremacists marching through their town are communists?

    Its really easy, you tag everyone who marched in protest of that statue being torn down as being a white supremacist, and neo-Nazi, racist etc etc.

    Theres absolutely 100% no way there are any non-Nazi's in there right?
    Billy Mays wrote: »
    Agree with this

    Personally speaking I don't have a problem with neo nazis and white supremacists getting a kicking.

    It should be encouraged if anything

    You even supported violence against these people. You saw an article on the internet and decided yes, I support violence against this entire section of people.

    If you can make those generalisations why cant I?


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,533 ✭✭✭jooksavage


    beans wrote: »
    Right, to clarify I think what happened in Virgina was a huge failure on both sides, each showed up armed. It was never going to be anything other than a brawl, and that's a shame.

    I was more passing general commentary on the notion that it's ok to do violence to people based on their politics. 'Punch a Nazi', that idea. That's not ok.

    I think it's important to remember when we talk about sides here, one side are ACTUAL NAZIS. And the Nazis' right peaceful assembly is somewhat undermined when one of their number murders a counter-protestor. Things have really changed in the last couple of years: one time no-one would give a sh** what happened to Nazi scum. Now society is supposed to indulge them as they parade about sieg-heiling and harassing people. No wonder they think we're all snowflakes.


  • Registered Users Posts: 726 ✭✭✭The Legend Of Kira


    jooksavage wrote: »
    beans wrote: »
    Right, to clarify I think what happened in Virgina was a huge failure on both sides, each showed up armed.  It was never going to be anything other than a brawl, and that's a shame.  

    I was more passing general commentary on the notion that it's ok to do violence to people based on their politics.  'Punch a Nazi', that idea.  That's not ok.

    I think it's important to remember when we talk about sides here,  one side are ACTUAL NAZIS. And the Nazis' right peaceful assembly is  somewhat undermined when one of their number murders a counter-protestor. Things have really changed in the last couple of years: one time no-one would give a sh** what happened to Nazi scum. Now society is supposed to indulge them as they parade about sieg-heiling and harassing people. No wonder they think we're all snowflakes.
    On one side there are two categories of Trump supporters ( Category A ) people from different backgrounds who are moderate right who support Trump vs ( Category B ) an extreme right element who support Trump, most people on the left fail to make any distinction between the two, then there,s the other side the side who riot in the streets when a democratic election doesn,t go their way,  who violently target anyone who supports Trump, who displays political banners calling for " more dead cops " lets call a spade a spade here if an extreme right element go on the way Antifa do there would of being calls to ban + proscribe such groups long ago .

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