Charlottesville

*brings up irrelevant previous incidents and twists things to look like something they're not*

"I don't have an agenda!"

Sigh.

My favourite is how they always end with something like "that is the last I have to say on the matter", which never happens.
 
No surprise at all to see the coordinated attack on Pogue from certain posters with serious comprehension issues.

Whats with the Paranoia?

"Posters disagree with another poster and reply" Shock horror...

Should I be upset that at least the same number of people are replying back to me in disagreement (including yourself)? Oh dear lord, I think I am having one of those coordinated attacks against me! I had better cry about it...
 
Between the outrage of using "Jihadist" as word in a post, we're distracting from the real issue of racists, bigots, nationalists, Trump, USA, and the needless killing of an innocent lady. Let's get this thread back on track, please.
 
Whats with the Paranoia?

"Posters disagree with another poster and reply" Shock horror...

Should I be upset that at least the same number of people are replying back to me in disagreement (including yourself)? Oh dear lord, I think I am having one of those coordinated attacks against me! I had better cry about it...

It'd be a better use of your time.

There was absolutely nothing wrong with Pogue's post at all, he made no attempt to lay any blame at Islam, nor did he even mention it, rather he was pointing out the obvious irony on display from the dumb feck redneck responsible for this incident.

You and the other few usual names came in and twisted it completely into something else in an attempt to paint him as something he's clearly not. You're also bringing up previous incidents where you've collectively done the exact same thing as some bizarre attempted justification for it.

You have consistently missed the point of what people are saying and instead decided to twist words into something else in order to go on the defensive and accuse people of attacking Islam when it's not happened.

You really need to take a step back and read things carefully before wading in.
 
That militia video. I know plenty will say its a sign of US freedom.

To me, it makes the country look like a third world shitehole, and that I would rather have my nuts shorn off with rusty razer wire than visit in the near future.

Someone said it already I think, but its time to stop with the alt-right nonsense, these are fascists. The very thing their own grandparents fought against. Treating it as a joke, and outlier and a flash in the pan harmless nonsense, or worse, something that others could control is exactly how the national socialists gained power.

I know people are not big on history any more, but this stuff is still within living memory.


Amen Sister........

Looking at that video is one big WTF!!!!!!!
 
Between the outrage of using "Jihadist" as word in a post, we're distracting from the real issue of racists, bigots, nationalists, Trump, USA, and the needless killing of an innocent lady. Let's get this thread back on track, please.

Apologies Sultan I only saw this after submitting my last post. You're absolutely right, I just felt it was unfair for someone to be labelled in such an incorrect way based on a total twisting of words.
 
Aren't these tensions between poor white people and poor black people in America simply a consequence of the lack of social security and opportunity for those disadvantaged demographics in the USA?
 
Whats with the Paranoia?

"Posters disagree with another poster and reply" Shock horror...

Should I be upset that at least the same number of people are replying back to me in disagreement (including yourself)? Oh dear lord, I think I am having one of those coordinated attacks against me! I had better cry about it...

Speak for yourself.

English is my 2nd language and I got what Pogue said perfectly well, as is the case with the majority of people in this thread. Just because you and a few others are hypersensitive to any and all mention of Jihad doesnt make what he said in anyway controversial, obscure or inflammatory.

The need to see insults and agenda behind every innocuous deed or action isnt going to help your cause.

Pogue might be a bit tone deaf on occasions regarding social issues, I grant you, but he's not ill intentioned.
 
It'd be a better use of your time.

There was absolutely nothing wrong with Pogue's post at all, he made no attempt to lay any blame at Islam, nor did he even mention it, rather he was pointing out the obvious irony on display from the dumb feck redneck responsible for this incident.

You and the other few usual names came in and twisted it completely into something else in an attempt to paint him as something he's clearly not. You're also bringing up previous incidents where you've collectively done the exact same thing as some bizarre attempted justification for it.

You have consistently missed the point of what people are saying and instead decided to twist words into something else in order to go on the defensive and accuse people of attacking Islam when it's not happened.

You really need to take a step back and read things carefully before wading in.

Top post.
 
I was baffled by these reactions to Pogue's post, where the irony seemed clear to me, until someone mentioned something about another thread. Then it made sense why they posted. Take it back to the other thread, lads.

Back to this... Sessions responds:
 
The president of the United States believes calling out Nazis will hurt him politically.
Just imagine that?
 
Jesus Christ, next thing we know Steve Bannon is going to release a stronger statement condemning racists than Trump.
 
Sessions speaking against racism, bloody hell.

You've contributed to this you fecking Nazi Elf.
 
Reading 4chan and r/the Donald is pretty depressing, people celebrating the violence that caused the death of a young woman, false equivalency everywhere and the spreading of rumours that this was a leftist plot to make Neo Nazis look bad (Because being a Neo Nazi doesn't look bad already).

Sadly this pernicious undercurrent of society seems to have been empowered by the victory of Trump and propelled them further into the forefront than they ever deserve, despite the fact I don't think they are representative of his supporters or him as a whole. There now needs to be leadership from the White House to calm tensions and disassociate itself from these groups, I'm not holding out much hope of it happening.
 
So a racist elf with form for supporting legislation oppressing minorities has the more appropriate response to racists than POTUS :lol:

Once in a while, you are reminded of the Bizarro world we are living in.

Yes but...... and a bit of a stretch here, though not much.... if you were of the white supremacist persuasion, you could probably twist that statement in your mind to mean racial bigotry as BLM etc against them.... :(
 
Reading 4chan and r/the Donald is pretty depressing, people celebrating the violence that caused the death of a young woman, false equivalency everywhere and the spreading of rumours that this was a leftist plot to make Neo Nazis look bad (Because being a Neo Nazi doesn't look bad already).

Sadly this pernicious undercurrent of society seems to have been empowered by the victory of Trump and propelled them further into the forefront than they ever deserve, despite the fact I don't think they are representative of his supporters or him as a whole. There now needs to be leadership from the White House to calm tensions and disassociate itself from these groups, I'm not holding out much hope of it happening.

That's the difficult part in this. We can't simply allow these type of things to fester when we know they are breeding grounds for Nazis and murderers. We would rightly clamp down on jihadi message boards and arrest those who participate in them.

I get the argument of people being hesitant about government intervention in what constitutes actionable/violent/illegal but there are genuinely plenty of people on the right and the centre who are so outraged by college campuses, "SJW's" and "PC gone mad" that they paint criticism of the alt-right as hyperbole. When what we have seen is that right wing rhetoric that has been mainstreams and amplified post-Trump is incredibly dangerous and something we should more seriously.
 
Reddit is due a clean up. Lots of nasty subreddits filled with tacit/open approval of racism and violence. There's a thread on the front page right now calling for a boycott until they shut down the Donald.
 
Hmmmm

Doesn't really matter what he does or doesn't really believe, doesn't really matter what his intent is either.
His lack of action and lack of condemnation against white supremacy has made his stance clear.
Absolutely. He has shown no qualms associating himself with those people for his own benefit since running for president. When it comes to racism, hate crimes etc., intent is secondary, what matters is practise. And as you say, it's pretty obvious what he's doing.
 
Reddit is due a clean up. Lots of nasty subreddits filled with tacit/open approval of racism and violence. There's a thread on the front page right now calling for a boycott until they shut down the Donald.

They'll just move to 4chan which is notably more extreme
 
I was baffled by these reactions to Pogue's post, where the irony seemed clear to me, until someone mentioned something about another thread. Then it made sense why they posted. Take it back to the other thread, lads.

Back to this... Sessions responds:

Say a well-known racist :p.
Apart from joke, it explains a lot about Trump.
 
I'd hate to be seen to be defending Trump even tepidly, but AntiFa have been showing up to these right wing marches with weapons and using them for months now so he's not wrong when he says "from all sides" or however he phrased it.

On a day when a woman has been murdered by a right wing extremist it's very poor of him not to single that faction out but it was only a matter of time before someone on one side or the other was killed, especially with consistent reports of police being ordered to stand down.
 
Islamic word "Jihadist" in English into a thread
Maybe it's just the use of the word, but personally I use it for freely to denote extremists irrespective of religion. We have Hindu Jihadis in India, neo Nazi Jihadis in West etc. I have the misfortune of knowing a couple of people who tacitly 'don't disapprove' of such bigotry and I frequently argue with them that they are not different from the people they try to fight against.
 
I am pretty sure these Nazis are not Muslims. Have we got a fundamental misunderstanding going on?

did you mean to say that you are trying to find a word that fits into this scenario? Terrorism is probably the best word.

We evidently do have a fundamental misunderstanding going on. On your part. The "jihadist" attacks I mentioned were in reference to what happened in London, Paris, Brussels, Nice etc. Surely that's obvious?

This white supremacy stuff is equally malevolent but obviously couldn't be described using that same word.
 
Between the outrage of using "Jihadist" as word in a post, we're distracting from the real issue of racists, bigots, nationalists, Trump, USA, and the needless killing of an innocent lady. Let's get this thread back on track, please.

Sorry. Just seen this. I'll shut up now.
 
We evidently do have a fundamental misunderstanding going on. On your part. The "jihadist" attacks I mentioned were in reference to what happened in London, Paris, Brussels, Nice etc. Surely that's obvious?

This white supremacy stuff is equally malevolent but obviously couldn't be described using that same word.

Absolutely nothing wrong with using the adjective jihadi to describe groups like Hamas, PIJ and ISIS, or some of the tactics which have become uniquely associated with and sanctioned by them. It's how they describe themselves. No different from describing the IRA as Irish Nationalist or Republican, even though we all recognise that militantism represents only a minority strand in the Irish nationalist movement.
 
Sadly this pernicious undercurrent of society seems to have been empowered by the victory of Trump and propelled them further into the forefront than they ever deserve, despite the fact I don't think they are representative of his supporters or him as a whole.

Yes they are. This is a man who ran on banning Muslims from the US, who slandered Mexicans as murderers and rapists and who boasted about sexually asssaulting women. These cnunts are EXACTLY representative of him and his supporters as a whole.
 
Reading 4chan and r/the Donald is pretty depressing, people celebrating the violence that caused the death of a young woman, false equivalency everywhere and the spreading of rumours that this was a leftist plot to make Neo Nazis look bad (Because being a Neo Nazi doesn't look bad already).

Sadly this pernicious undercurrent of society seems to have been empowered by the victory of Trump and propelled them further into the forefront than they ever deserve, despite the fact I don't think they are representative of his supporters or him as a whole. There now needs to be leadership from the White House to calm tensions and disassociate itself from these groups, I'm not holding out much hope of it happening.


I'm going to make this as unequivocally as possible.

Anyone who voted for Trump is either a racist, or doesn't care that he's a racist.

There is no room for grey areas here, and we need to stop accommodating for those who ride the fence of ignoring intolerance.
Trump has made his position absolutely clear both during the election campaign, the Muslim ban, and selectively choosing not to condemn the white supremacists for what they are.
 
No surprise at all to see the coordinated attack on Pogue from certain posters with serious comprehension issues.
Are YOU really going to accuse me of co-ordinating an attack??? Really?????
I've heard it all now.