If you're marching with antifa, you're with antifa. If you're marching with nazis, you're a nazi.
Carry on, now you're just taking what I'm saying and typing it back. So guess you're done with you're sanity check.
The right went off the rails when Obama was elected. Look at their state now.
Your feigned offense to the term full retard is amusing at best.
Actually you are agreeing with me now.
Its not feigned offense to the derogatory use of "retard" to insult someone. I am offended by it. Its a form of bigotry. You're mocking someone for being born with a mental disability. Being born a certain way that they cannot help. Similar to mocking someone for being born with a certain skin color, gender, where they are from, etc. Its the same thing. But keep on thinking that you are morally superior or that its different. You're not. You're not the only one here who does it either, you can take solace in that I suppose.
It pains me to agree with Ackmed about anything, but the use of 'retard' does make me wince , even though its become commonplace now.
I reckon it's a question of age, as I can clearly remember when 'retarded' was supposed to be a neutral descriptor for a condition, hence it still carries connotations of its original meaning, hence the wincing.
(As opposed to words like 'imbecile' or 'moron' which crossed over into simple abuse long before my time, so don't bother me in the same way).
This, on the other hand, is absurd. If you go to a far-right rally organised for a far-right cause, other than to protest (or perhaps as a journalist) you are supporting Nazis.
In the case of Charlottesville the 'different groups' spanned the gamut from fans of the Third Reich to KKK supporters (with some militia gun-nuts along to 'keep the peace' supposedly). I see little harm in lumping those sorts of groups together.
I too remember when the term "retarded" was used all the time. I used it all the time. I think we can grow, bettering ourselves, and what used to be common place is now considered wrong, where it was mainstream before. Same as calling someone "gay" as a normal insult in the past. It the 90's it was very popular. That should never have been ok, but was. In todays world it is not considered ok by most, and should not be.
Again, not every rally is organized by the far right cause. Not every rally is for the purpose of showing support for a confederate statue. Groups show up at rally, take advantage of the opportunity. It was very clear what the Berkley rally was for, they denounced the attacked in NC, the people who acted out like that.
You mentioned journalist, there is video of them saying to take a journalists gear, camera and mic. They're suppressing free speech in different ways.
I don't like how the far right thinks, what they stand for. By far the vast majority of the US does not. That does not mean that they do not have the right to assemble, the right to free speech. Those rights go to every citizen. As long as now laws are broken. When we start legislating what someone can think or say with bats and street justice, we're going backwards. Its happened before, it did not turn out well. Because then it transfers to other discussions, and goes downhill fast.
We had a protest last Saturday too, that went much differently that the Berkley one did. The protest was about defending a statue of a confederate soldier. There was less than 40 people there to support the defense of it, and 2,800 to oppose it. Almost a 70-1 ratio in favor of being there to take it down. One arrest was made for trying to run past a check point and not listening to cops. No fights, no assaults. 300 cops there who did their job, unlike Berkley which were told to stand down. That is how it is supposed to work. There was yelling, there were signs, there were arguments on both sides. Nobody got hurt. The good guys outnumbered the bad guys, and made their point. That is how freedom of speech is supposed to work. Not beating someone with bats as they lay helplessly in the street, because they don't think like you do. That is not what this country is supposed to be about.
The fact that so many people are ok with, even glad that people get beaten for this is troubling and sad. They're also hypocrites, because they wouldn't feel the same if the discussion was over something different. I am not defending their cause, their beliefs, their ideas, or anything else. The only thing I am defending is that they have the right to assemble and to the freedom of speech. There are many things I don't agree with, but I still support their rights to say their piece.
People here are glad that other people burned to death last year in a wildfire. Because they think they voted for Trump. This is ok with you? Its the same line of thinking about the protests and violence. People are glad that others just died in the floods in the last few days, a professor just got dismissed for saying that they
deserve it for how they voted. He is ok with people drowning to death, because of how he thinks they voted. I would have used a CNN link, but they didn't report that. If you can believe that, I know, shocking.
Its obvious that some people will be ok with the beating of others for the words that they use, and the thoughts that they think. All the while thinking that they are being morally superior, when they are not. I am tired of going around and around about it. I have explained it as well as I know how, which admittedly I am not the best at. An event will take place in the future where the shoe will be on the other foot, and their opinion of the exact same situation will be different. Which will make them hypocrites.