Beatrice wrote:... it made me realize how white supremacy affects absolutely everything, every little nook and cranny of American society is infected.

The case, Sines v. Kessler, takes aim at the organizers of Unite The Right, the deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. The two-day rally began with a torchlit march, during which white supremacists assaulted counter-demonstrators, and concluded with neo-Nazi James Fields Jr. driving his car into a crowd of protesters, murdering one and injuring dozens more. Survivors of the attacks were left with lasting injuries and emotional distress. Sines v. Kessler, which represents nine survivors, argues that event organizers planned for violence. And after four years of dramatic pre-trial developments, the plaintiffs are finally going to make their case.

In summer 2017, Unite The Right was billed as a coming-out moment for the then-ascendant alt-right movement. Comprised of internet-savvy fascists, the alt-right movement was riding high off Donald Trump’s 2016 election and hoped to march publicly with other, older white supremacist movements like the neo-Confederate League of the South or the National Socialist Movement.

arugula2 wrote:

felltoearth wrote:I’d appreciate a source for this as I would love to use this stat.

Erica Chenoweth (Harvard) & Jeremy Pressman (U.Conn). Summary of their study here, which looked at

...data from May to June [2020], having already documented 7,305 events in thousands of towns and cities in all 50 states and D.C., involving millions of attendees

...and concluded that

Only 3.7% of the protests involved property damage or vandalism. Some portion of these involved neither police nor protesters, but people engaging in vandalism or looting alongside the protests.

In short, our data suggest that 96.3% of events involved no property damage or police injuries, and in 97.7% of events, no injuries were reported among participants, bystanders or police.

They define terms & participants in the in-between paragraphs.

QAnon believers have reportedly gathered in Dallas, Texas in anticipation of a big announcement from John F. Kennedy Jr.—but they may be waiting some time, as Kennedy died in a plane crash 22 years ago. The gathering was spotted by independent journalist Steven Monacelli, the publisher of Protean Magazine and contributor to The Daily Beast. He posted Monday night that a big crowd of “what appears to be QAnon believers” gathered in downtown Dallas ahead of an expected announcement by Kennedy at Dealey Plaza later this week. Monacelli even spotted people wearing campaign t-shirts saying: “Trump/JFK JR 2024.” Some QAnoners believe Kennedy faked his own death and is now Q, the anonymous leader of their conspiracy movement. However, Kennedy died after crashing into the Atlantic Ocean on July 16, 1999.

He Spent 25 Years Infiltrating Nazis, the Klan, and Biker Gangs

Scott was a top undercover agent for the FBI, putting himself in harm's way dozens of times. Now, he’s telling his story for the first time to sound the alarm about the threat of far-right extremists in America


We’ll come to the homegrown terrorists he foiled and the race war they tried to foment. To the journalists he saved from assassination and the synagogue marked for carnage in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. To the gun-rights march on the steps of a state capitol, where they planned to pick off cops and rallygoers. There’s time enough to valorize the work of Scott B., an undercover fed who breached far-right death squads and squashed their national web of terror cells. (Scott requested that his surname not be used for the sake of his family’s safety.) Last summer, when he retired at 50 from the FBI, Scott left the bureau as one of the most storied agents since Joe Pistone, the real-life Donnie Brasco. For two-plus decades, he cracked landmark cases and won every laurel they give to undercovers. Months out of the game, though, he can’t stop brooding over the threat he left behind. He knows better than anyone that it’s later than we think, and that each day brings us closer to the next 9/11 — this one launched by our own children.

But first, we need to talk about the ram. Because that ram — actually, a terrified goat with diarrhea — died for all our sins of the past four centuries.

Seabass wrote:Racist father and son duo try to shoot black Fed Ex worker.
Fed Ex worker goes to cops, is initially ignored.
Fed Ex sends him back out on SAME route the next day.
The poor kid is understandably a bit freaked out, so Fed Ex then puts him on UNPAID leave.



https://abcnews.go.com/US/white-men-cha ... d=82802194

John Oliver explains what critical race theory is, what it isn’t, and why we can expect to hear more about it in the coming months.

Seabass wrote:

John Oliver explains what critical race theory is, what it isn’t, and why we can expect to hear more about it in the coming months.

hackenslash wrote:

Seabass wrote:

John Oliver explains what critical race theory is, what it isn’t, and why we can expect to hear more about it in the coming months.

This was a really good piece.