"Alt-right" Still Parading Ignorance, Stupidity, Malice, Etc.

[JimC]

The "perfidious Jews" line is skating the edge of hate speech, surely...

[Svartalf]

The Mossad's shenanigans are doing nothing to wipe out that stereotype, though

[L'Emmerdeur]

The "perfidious Jews" line is skating the edge of hate speech, surely...

Fuentes cares not a fig about that edge--he openly praises Hitler.

[Woodbutcher]

The "perfidious Jews" line is skating the edge of hate speech, surely...

Fuentes cares not a fig about that edge--he openly praises Hitler.

It is Jewsus, not Jesus!

[Strontium Dog]

The "perfidious Jews" line is skating the edge of hate speech, surely...

You have to say perfidious Zionists these days.

[JimC]

And it is perfectly reasonable to comment on the perfidy of the zionist Israeli government, without being anti-semitic in the slightest. (and without giving Hamas anything but abhorrence as well...)

[L'Emmerdeur]

Shitbirds gonna shitbird. You can count on it.

'How Charlie Kirk Plans to Discredit Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Act'

Conservative activist and Turning Point USA cofounder Charlie Kirk has a lot of opinions on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

In 2015, Kirk called him a “hero.”

In 2022, MLK was a “civil rights icon.”

In December 2023, speaking before a group of students and teachers at America Fest, a political convention organized by Turning Point USA, Kirk struck a different tone.

“MLK was awful,” Kirk said. “He's not a good person. He said one good thing he actually didn't believe.”

For decades, conservatives have pointed to King and his idea that people should “not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character” as a model for equality.

“For a while, Dr. King’s stock was very much on the rise in conservative circles and the Republican Party,” says John Wood Jr., a Republican activist. “It’s been understood on the right that even though Dr. King wasn’t really one of us politically, he was still a ‘good liberal.’”

For Kirk, the shift on King wasn’t an offhand remark, but a glimpse into his broader strategy to discredit the civil rights leader and the landmark legislation most associated with King: the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

“I have a very, very radical view on this, but I can defend it, and I’ve thought about it,” Kirk said at America Fest. “We made a huge mistake when we passed the Civil Rights Act in the 1960s.”

Turning Point USA, founded in 2012 by an 18-year-old Kirk to organize conservative students on college campuses, has grown into an ideological force in right-wing politics. America Fest, which took place at a convention center in downtown Phoenix, featured speeches by right-wing heavyweights Donald Trump Jr., Tucker Carlson, and US representative Matt Gaetz of Florida. Nearly 20,000 people attended the four-day event, according to Kirk.

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Kirk argues that the Civil Rights Act, which bars discrimination on the basis of race, ushered in a “permanent DEI-type bureaucracy,” referring to diversity, equity, and inclusion. He illustrated how the law has gone wrong when responding to a question from a student who said they became the subject of a Title IX investigation after posting an Instagram story mocking transgender people. Title IX, which was passed as part of the Education Amendments of 1972, bans schools that receive federal funding from discriminating on the basis of sex. King was assassinated four years prior, in 1968.

“The courts have been really weak on this,” Kirk told the America Fest crowd. “Federal courts just yield to the Civil Rights Act as if it's the actual American Constitution.” The law is ultimately a way to “re-found the county” and “a way to get rid of the First Amendment,” according to Kirk.

Kirk’s attempt to discredit civil rights law is an example of how “the fringe moves to the center at the speed of light” in right-wing politics, says public policy scholar Jonathan Rauch.

“If they're going to say the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the death of the Constitution and freedom in America, then that's going to be extremely divisive, because a lot of people are going to say, ‘Well, if that isn't racist, I don't know what is,’” Rauch says. “This is the federal law that ended segregation.”

It's really about how the government doesn't need to tell you what you can and can't do. They don't need to be a part of your life. They need to make sure that you have freedom. You know, and states' rights of course.

[Sean Hayden]

They really don't have any brakes do they? --wish they'd hit a fucking wall already

[L'Emmerdeur]

Dear Cnut happily quoted the drooling goon Posobiec as a reliable source and approved of sentiments he expressed. I'm not going to attempt to approximate the clever exegesis he would give this gem.

Let's be perfectly clear here: He's saying that the end of Jim Crow segregation (separate bathrooms for blacks and whites, blacks sit at the back of the bus, no blacks allowed in white restaurants or schools) was an intolerable injustice to whites. This is the alt-right.

-- Patrick Chovanec · Jan 13, 2024

[Svartalf]

Wow, some people have a genius for understanding nothing...

[L'Emmerdeur]

Aye, it takes a particular talent to come up with something that's so messed up on so many different levels. Not saying it's an admirable talent.

[rasetsu]

So, in his analogy, are white people the Germans, or the Allies?

[L'Emmerdeur]

Posobiec is equating Germany and 'white people.'

[Svartalf]

Well, Aryans are THE white people, and they are Iranians...

[Brian Peacock]

Looks like the poor Caucasians have been squeezed out again.