Stop saying Nazis and the KKK are wrong BUT.....
It's been a decisive week in America.
Lots of values have been challenged. That part is not a bad thing. It's good to evaluate yourself every so often and make changes to the things you don't like.
Here's one thing everyone should agree on...Neo-Nazis, the KKK and White Supremacists are bad groups. They should be condemned unequivocally. It's that simple! Yet, in a lot of cases, that's not happening. It starts with the leader of our country. When he said "both sides" in response to the events of last weekend, he gave a legitimacy to these groups. David Duke should never be thanking any President of the United States and supporters of Trump should be appalled that he did.
It's led to a lot of conversations that go like this...The KKK is bad but so is Black Lives Matters or The Neo-Nazis are bad but the Alt-Left is just as bad (btw, there is no such thing as At-Left). Those conversations need to stop NOW! IMMEDIATELY!
If you think there's an equivalency between these groups remember who were the ones carrying torches. Remember who were the ones chanting "Jew will not replace us". Remember who was responsible for the Holocaust.
If you want to talk about the removal of confederate statues, that's fine. If you want to talk about the legitimacy of the Alt-Left, that's another conversation, I'm willing to have, as long as it's not Neo-Nazis vs Alt-Left.
Here's the deal and it's something we should all agree on...When you see the nine hate group rallies planned for these weekend, just say this, "The KKK, Neo-Nazis and all White Supremacists are bad." NO BUTS!! And leave it there. If you can't do that, maybe you need to go back to paragraph two and evaluate your values.
It's that simple.
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