The events of the past week have thrown into high relief the continuing moral failures of many in our nation--exemplified in the words of the disgraceful Donald Trump--who has decided that it is "okay" to equate the counter-protests of the Black Lives Matter activists and other anti-racist groups with the KKK, neo-Nazis, and the other white supremacist individuals and groups who injured and murdered American citizens in the name of white supremacy and anti-Semitism. Even bastions of corporate capitalism have denounced him (bad for business, bad for our country). As we have seen, these white supremacists have received encouragement from Trump, who seems to enjoy normalizing and fanning the flames of racial hatred and creating a moral equivalency between folks fighting racism and those who revel in its gory violence.
Thursday, August 17, 2017
Charlottesville...and the #Klan President
The events of the past week have thrown into high relief the continuing moral failures of many in our nation--exemplified in the words of the disgraceful Donald Trump--who has decided that it is "okay" to equate the counter-protests of the Black Lives Matter activists and other anti-racist groups with the KKK, neo-Nazis, and the other white supremacist individuals and groups who injured and murdered American citizens in the name of white supremacy and anti-Semitism. Even bastions of corporate capitalism have denounced him (bad for business, bad for our country). As we have seen, these white supremacists have received encouragement from Trump, who seems to enjoy normalizing and fanning the flames of racial hatred and creating a moral equivalency between folks fighting racism and those who revel in its gory violence.
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