The good people stayed home

'Swastikas and nooses': governor slams 'racism' of Michigan lockdown protest

Governor Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan issued a rebuke of the armed protesters who gathered inside the state capitol last week in defiance of statewide lockdown orders, saying the demonstrators embodied some of the “worst racism” of the nation’s history.

“Some of the outrageousness of what happened at our capitol depicted some of the worst racism and awful parts of our history in this country,” Whitmer said during a Sunday interview on CNN’s State of the Union.

Last week Donald Trump had said of the protesters: “These are very good people.”

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[Whitmer said,] “There were swastikas and Confederate flags and nooses and people with assault rifles. That’s a small group of people when you think that this is a state of almost 10 million people, the vast majority of whom are doing the right thing.”

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Displaying the Confederate flag, or other symbols of the slave-owning south during the American civil war, is usually seen as racist.

There is not the least doubt that many, even most, of the folks nationwide who support at least partial rollback right away are "good people", or anyway no worse than the general run.

But they aren't showing up to demonstrate under the Confederate flag, side by side with nazis, racist militia, and the worst of the right wing loonies.

And that's because good people don't show up to march under the Confederate flag, or side by side with nazis, or side by side with racist militia, or with the worst of the right wing loonies.

Let alone under the Confederate flag with all of them.