But as soon as the trouble over, watch them take another nap

[sovay]

If I were the kind of person who made macros, I would be making one right now with a shot of Ernie Hudson on top of the Shandor Building shouting, "CNN, when someone asks you if Jews are people, you say yes!"

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[teenybuffalo.livejournal.com]

Christ on a crutch. CNN is acting like that's a question where there can be debate, and the press is acting like "alt-right" doesn't mean "white supremacist" and I just came from hugging my friend G. and furiously promising her that I'd fight for her life and human rights against anyone and anything. I'm furious. She should not have had to see her person-hood being doubted on national TV, neither should you, neither should anyone else. I mean, know your enemy, so...blatantly evil people are easier to spot coming, but they should never have come this far. It's fucking appalling that this is being normalized.

[sovay]

I mean, know your enemy, so...blatantly evil people are easier to spot coming, but they should never have come this far.

Amen.

It's fucking appalling that this is being normalized.

I was saying to derspatchel last night that it interests me in a non-academic way that so many people in this country apparently want to be Nazis. I don't mean I am surprised at the depth or the virulence of their anti-Semitism, racism, and so forth, although I am furious with Donald Trump for giving it a platform and the media for giving it legitimacy; I mean I am actually a little surprised that it's taken the form of Hitler salutes and Goebbels buzzwords. The resurgence of the KKK and the multiplying Confederate flags do not puzzle me; that's race hatred as a homegrown American institution. The use of the swastika to threaten and scare, that's also not new, like the white power skinheads subculture. The aggressive mainstreaming of this flavor of neo-Nazism is part of what feels different to me, obviously, but also the fact that it's so Nazi and barely neo. Yet another reason I agree we should not allow them to rebrand themselves.