If I said Supremacist, would race, color, creed, religion matter?
If I said Extremists, would right, left matter?
If I said Racist or Sexist, Xenophobic, or Nazi, does it really make a difference to whatever the cause?
Antifa… left wing extremists group, or maybe the equivalent response.
So… Islamic Extremists, religious zealots, right wing conservative, left-wing radicals, White supremacist, Black militants, and yes, even now, Russian nationalists… or right wing nationalists in general.
To have ‘condemnation’… is that strong enough or must we go further?
If a Nazi group is not truly ‘Neo’, cuz they don’t wear swastika armbands and does not own a signed first edition of Mein Kamph… Neo-Nazi? Or does just plain Nazi, sez it all?
For me, it’s real simple… if you or your group feeds on creating or building on a terrorizing fear that comes from any form of threat or intimidation, then your bad dudes and have no place in America. I don’t need to know or experience anymore then this.
But then again… what about politicians?
“Trump care will kill people,” “republicans want sick people to die, because medications will be to costly to afford, they have to choose between eating or medications…” well, of course, when it feeds your own personal political agenda, then… they are only trying to convey how dire the circumstances… not trying to use fear and intimidation.
Civility among groups or citizens of a country start with those who are leaders. If words of fear and intimidation are commonplace within the debate of our leaders or political class, then do not words become like that of a white sheets, bats, tiki torches and cans of hairspray used as a flamethrower?
“Give me liberty or give me death.” Patrick Henry. And then… “Pig in a blanket, fry’m like bacon.” Black Lives Matter.
Both you could say are inspired rehtoic… both suggests the sacrifice of life… both of civil servents… but one is a personal choice based in how a personal choice will doom the whole… the other… makes the killing of a civil servant an acccepable outcome of civil disobedience.
I’m not so sure the path we are on is one that will produce a desired outcome for all Americans.