Military chiefs check in against the racists.
US military leaders condemn racism after Charlottesville violence
In spontaneous tweets.
Two more CEOs leave the Council, Campbell Soup and 3M.
Now there are unconfirmed reports the Council has been disbanded (by the White House?) to head off the further embarrassment of leaders continuing to leave, one at a time and in small groups.
Former Presidents H.W. and W. Bush denounce racism in wake of Charlottesville
Former Presidents George H. W. Bush and George W. Bush joined the chorus of lawmakers speaking out to condemn the racist violence that occurred in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the weekend.
. . . .
"America must always reject racial bigotry, anti-Semitism, and hatred in all forms. As we pray for Charlottesville, we are reminded of the fundamental truths recorded by that city's most prominent citizen in the Declaration of Independence: we are all created equal and endowed by our Creator with unalienable rights," they said in a joint written statement on Wednesday.
"We know these truths to be everlasting because we have seen the decency and greatness of our country."
Wednesday, August 16, 2017
The Breitbart view of the movement to take down the Confederacy
Baltimore Removes Four Confederate Statues Under Cover of Night
In a stealth purging of history, the city of Baltimore removed four Confederate statues from city property under cover of night early Tuesday morning.
Roger Taney, Robert E. Lee, and Stonewall Jackson.
Also eliminated in the middle of the night were monuments to Confederate soldiers and sailors and the Confederate Women’s monument.
Not significantly different from the view of Ann Coulter, Pat Buchanan, and apparently The Duce, himself.
Nor of the most repugnant folks of the alt.right, which allows the left to gladly put in the same sack the purely economic opponents of immigration with the latest Imperial Wizard, and opponents of what used to be called "forced busing" and affirmative action in the same corner with the Aryan Brotherhood.
Not that Breitbart, Coulter, Buchanan, or The Duce are either purely economic opponents of immigration or merely opponents of forced busing and affirmative action.
Several articles in Breitbart today opposing the movement to take down the monuments.
Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham, for instance.
In a stealth purging of history, the city of Baltimore removed four Confederate statues from city property under cover of night early Tuesday morning.
Roger Taney, Robert E. Lee, and Stonewall Jackson.
Also eliminated in the middle of the night were monuments to Confederate soldiers and sailors and the Confederate Women’s monument.
Not significantly different from the view of Ann Coulter, Pat Buchanan, and apparently The Duce, himself.
Nor of the most repugnant folks of the alt.right, which allows the left to gladly put in the same sack the purely economic opponents of immigration with the latest Imperial Wizard, and opponents of what used to be called "forced busing" and affirmative action in the same corner with the Aryan Brotherhood.
Not that Breitbart, Coulter, Buchanan, or The Duce are either purely economic opponents of immigration or merely opponents of forced busing and affirmative action.
Several articles in Breitbart today opposing the movement to take down the monuments.
Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham, for instance.
Meanwhile, in Germany
Angela Merkel Condemns Charlottesville Violence as ‘Racist’ and ‘Evil’
Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany denounced the deadly violence that erupted around a demonstration by white supremacist groups in Charlottesville, Va., over the weekend as “racist,” “horrifying” and “evil,” and called for far-right violence to be condemned worldwide.
“It is racist, far-right violence and clear, forceful action must be taken against it, regardless of where in the world it happens,”
Ms. Merkel said in an interview with the German public broadcasters Deutschlandfunk and Phoenix.
She expressed her condolences for the family and friends of Heather D. Heyer, who was killed in the violence.
The chancellor declined to criticize the United States, noting that her own country still struggles with anti-Semitism and far-right extremists.
“Before we point our fingers at others, we need to take care of that which is happening at home,” Ms. Merkel said.
“Of course that country is torn,” she said of the United States, “but what needs to be condemned is any form of violence, especially any forms of extreme or aggressive violence.”
Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany denounced the deadly violence that erupted around a demonstration by white supremacist groups in Charlottesville, Va., over the weekend as “racist,” “horrifying” and “evil,” and called for far-right violence to be condemned worldwide.
“It is racist, far-right violence and clear, forceful action must be taken against it, regardless of where in the world it happens,”
Ms. Merkel said in an interview with the German public broadcasters Deutschlandfunk and Phoenix.
She expressed her condolences for the family and friends of Heather D. Heyer, who was killed in the violence.
The chancellor declined to criticize the United States, noting that her own country still struggles with anti-Semitism and far-right extremists.
“Before we point our fingers at others, we need to take care of that which is happening at home,” Ms. Merkel said.
“Of course that country is torn,” she said of the United States, “but what needs to be condemned is any form of violence, especially any forms of extreme or aggressive violence.”
About the problem in Germany.
Euroskeptic immigration opponents on the rise.
Tuesday, August 15, 2017
Show your colors
Woman charged in toppling of Confederate statue in NC
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper issued a statement Tuesday calling for the removal of more Confederate monuments.
"I don't pretend to know what it's like for a person of color to pass by one of these monuments and consider that those memorialized in stone and metal did not value my freedom or humanity," he said.
"Unlike an African-American father, I'll never have to explain to my daughters why there exists an exalted monument for those who wished to keep her and her ancestors in chains."
Cooper said the legislature should repeal a 2015 law that prevents the removal or relocation of monuments so local governments and the state will have the authority to decide.
A state agency has been asked to determine the costs of removing Confederate monuments from state property and find alternative spots for their placement, Cooper said.
Cooper said he will also urge the legislature to defeat a bill that grants immunity from liability to motorists who strike protesters.
North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper issued a statement Tuesday calling for the removal of more Confederate monuments.
"I don't pretend to know what it's like for a person of color to pass by one of these monuments and consider that those memorialized in stone and metal did not value my freedom or humanity," he said.
"Unlike an African-American father, I'll never have to explain to my daughters why there exists an exalted monument for those who wished to keep her and her ancestors in chains."
Cooper said the legislature should repeal a 2015 law that prevents the removal or relocation of monuments so local governments and the state will have the authority to decide.
A state agency has been asked to determine the costs of removing Confederate monuments from state property and find alternative spots for their placement, Cooper said.
Cooper said he will also urge the legislature to defeat a bill that grants immunity from liability to motorists who strike protesters.
Trump channels Buchanan, Hannity, and many others
The Imperial Wizard in the White House, angry and shouting, demands of the press.
Hey, what about Washington?
What about Jefferson?
The first 6 presidents of the United States were slave owners, what about them?
So, I don't know.
But did any of them try to destroy the Union to preserve slavery?
Are any of them celebrated for nothing but trying to destroy the Union to save slavery?
Racists celebrate Nathan Bedford Forrest for his role in founding the KKK, despite his second thoughts in later life.
Democrats and partisans of inclusion celebrate Jefferson for the Declaration, and Lincoln for ending slavery, saving the Union, and penning the Gettysburg Address, and neither of them for their sins.
Hmm.
Hey, what about Washington?
What about Jefferson?
The first 6 presidents of the United States were slave owners, what about them?
So, I don't know.
But did any of them try to destroy the Union to preserve slavery?
Are any of them celebrated for nothing but trying to destroy the Union to save slavery?
Racists celebrate Nathan Bedford Forrest for his role in founding the KKK, despite his second thoughts in later life.
Democrats and partisans of inclusion celebrate Jefferson for the Declaration, and Lincoln for ending slavery, saving the Union, and penning the Gettysburg Address, and neither of them for their sins.
Hmm.
Or course it's not about whether we remember, but how
Fox News reporter in Charlottesville glorifies Nazi murder suspect as a ‘white vigilante’
Sure, remember your great granddaddy the horse thief.
But not with pride.
With shame?
Well, no, you didn't do it.
But still.
The story.
During a report from Charlottesville, Virginia, [Fox News reporter Doug] McKelway noted that anti-Confederate activists were destroying Civil War statues in Virginia and other surrounding states after James Alex Fields, Jr. was accused of using his car to kill 32-year-old Heather Heyer.
“The crisis is going to be brewing in other cities,” McKelway said.
“Those who find the system of slavery to be so abhorrent that we should have no memories of it whatsoever to those who believe that what their great-great-great-great granddaddy did in the Civil War should be remembered and preserved.”
“And then, this ventures into the area of airbrushing of history,” the Fox News reporter continued.
“A tactic of totalitarian governments, a common practice in the former Soviet Union where people who fell into disfavor in the government were literally airbrushed out of history.”
Yup, that's one of those annoyingly figurative uses of "literally".
And those who want these monuments gone are a bunch of lefty goddam totalitarians, right?
McKelway added: “We’ve also learned when the funeral service will be held for Heather Heyer, the young woman, the 32 year old that was killed by the white vigilante who mowed down people in downtown Charlottesville on Saturday.”
A vigilante?
I suppose it's no surprise that CNN (the Communist News Network, according to the right), and MSNBC are so frankly on the side of those who want to get rid of these monuments and flags, while Fox joins Breitbart in defending them.
This is why the Republicans and the conservative movement can't get away from the charge they harbor racists and are at least soft on racism, when they aren't openly supportive of it.
They do.
And they are.
Sure, remember your great granddaddy the horse thief.
But not with pride.
With shame?
Well, no, you didn't do it.
But still.
The story.
During a report from Charlottesville, Virginia, [Fox News reporter Doug] McKelway noted that anti-Confederate activists were destroying Civil War statues in Virginia and other surrounding states after James Alex Fields, Jr. was accused of using his car to kill 32-year-old Heather Heyer.
“The crisis is going to be brewing in other cities,” McKelway said.
“Those who find the system of slavery to be so abhorrent that we should have no memories of it whatsoever to those who believe that what their great-great-great-great granddaddy did in the Civil War should be remembered and preserved.”
“And then, this ventures into the area of airbrushing of history,” the Fox News reporter continued.
“A tactic of totalitarian governments, a common practice in the former Soviet Union where people who fell into disfavor in the government were literally airbrushed out of history.”
Yup, that's one of those annoyingly figurative uses of "literally".
And those who want these monuments gone are a bunch of lefty goddam totalitarians, right?
McKelway added: “We’ve also learned when the funeral service will be held for Heather Heyer, the young woman, the 32 year old that was killed by the white vigilante who mowed down people in downtown Charlottesville on Saturday.”
A vigilante?
I suppose it's no surprise that CNN (the Communist News Network, according to the right), and MSNBC are so frankly on the side of those who want to get rid of these monuments and flags, while Fox joins Breitbart in defending them.
This is why the Republicans and the conservative movement can't get away from the charge they harbor racists and are at least soft on racism, when they aren't openly supportive of it.
They do.
And they are.
A Trump kind of guy
Joe Arpaio
The first paragraphs of the Wikipedia account say it all.
This guy is beloved of the nationalist (er, racist) and anti-immigrant right.
And The Duce.
Trump 'seriously considering' a pardon for ex-Sheriff Joe Arpaio
Trump retweets Fox News story on potential Arpaio pardon
A Trump Pardon of Joe Arpaio Endorses Racism Against Latinos
The first paragraphs of the Wikipedia account say it all.
This guy is beloved of the nationalist (er, racist) and anti-immigrant right.
And The Duce.
Trump 'seriously considering' a pardon for ex-Sheriff Joe Arpaio
Trump retweets Fox News story on potential Arpaio pardon
A Trump Pardon of Joe Arpaio Endorses Racism Against Latinos
Pull them all down
The names of Confederate leaders should appear on nothing, no streets, no schools, no statues, no military bases, no ships, no buildings, and no monuments, apart from their own headstones in the cemeteries where they are buried.
Taking advantage of the topic of the moment and the August congressional recess, MSNBC is putting in a good amount of time on the issue, explaining how widespread these memorials to the Confederacy are and how they were put up during waves of exceptional terrorism by the Klan in the South and across America.
It is a disgrace to the country that the South and its racism were influential enough all over America that even after all the states outside the South together fought a war to prevent the formation of a slave empire in North America and ended slavery in our country, the triumphant North accepted the simultaneous rise of Jim Crow, widespread segregation, and public institutional reverence all across the South for the Confederacy, its leaders, its war, and its cause.
It is time to put an end to any hint of public reverence for enemies of our country who would have destroyed the Union to maintain forever the enslavement of black Africans and the racist ideology that sustained it.
Meanwhile, MSNBC is by no means ignoring that the racists celebrate not only the Confederacy and its ideology but the European evils against which America and others fought the greatest war of the 20th Century, the Nazi ideology and regime of Adolph Hitler.
What the alt.right and their ideological kin stand for and celebrate is not America but two of our country's most deadly historic enemies.
This is the Breitbart take.
Founding Fathers in Peril
And here is the word from the leader of the pack, Pat Buchanan.
If We Erase Our History, Who Are We?
Pat Buchanan defends his heroes of the Confederacy and the loons at Charlottesville who revere them by implicating the entire history of the US, the age of colonialism and imperialism, and as much of Western Civilization and its history as he can in the deepest and most shameless racism.
It is not the history of the West as the story of liberty, as the rise of Enlightenment, as the birth and flourishing of scientific and industrial civilization, as the rise and spread of democracy and equality.
It is the history of the West as told in past years by Gobineau, by Houston Stewart Chamberlain, by Oswald Spengler, by Adolph Hitler, by the American Nazi party, and by the American Ku Klux Klan.
It is the history of the West as told, nowadays, by the disgraceful and shameful racist slugs whose influence on it has been its ugliest stain and its most bitter enemies, including people whose own racism is of the bitterly and deeply anti-white kind.
We might call its mildest version the Howard Zinn/The Guardian version of history.
Of course, the movement to tear down the monuments of the Confederacy and reject racism and its celebrants is not an attempt to erase history but partly to outlive it and live it down.
It is a refusal to revere those enemies of our country and the promise of universalist social and political egalitarianism, the leaders of the Confederacy and of Nazi Germany.
It is a refusal to revere figures from the past of this country whose agendas and values are simply not our own, expressly and officially for those alien values and rejected agendas.
As for the Founders, that's a mixed heritage and we'll figure out how to remember it and how and how far to revere it, and black and Indian and Asian and other nonwhite or not quite entirely white Americans will play a role in working out how.
The truth is, after all, that the America of today is not the America of 1860, 1789, or 1620, and the differences are all to the good.
And that, of things political pertaining specifically to race and identity, the most valuable things in the American past were and are the promises of equality and inclusion captured in the Declaration and saved from ruin by the Union victory over the Confederacy.
Just as Barack Obama said.
Taking advantage of the topic of the moment and the August congressional recess, MSNBC is putting in a good amount of time on the issue, explaining how widespread these memorials to the Confederacy are and how they were put up during waves of exceptional terrorism by the Klan in the South and across America.
It is a disgrace to the country that the South and its racism were influential enough all over America that even after all the states outside the South together fought a war to prevent the formation of a slave empire in North America and ended slavery in our country, the triumphant North accepted the simultaneous rise of Jim Crow, widespread segregation, and public institutional reverence all across the South for the Confederacy, its leaders, its war, and its cause.
It is time to put an end to any hint of public reverence for enemies of our country who would have destroyed the Union to maintain forever the enslavement of black Africans and the racist ideology that sustained it.
Meanwhile, MSNBC is by no means ignoring that the racists celebrate not only the Confederacy and its ideology but the European evils against which America and others fought the greatest war of the 20th Century, the Nazi ideology and regime of Adolph Hitler.
What the alt.right and their ideological kin stand for and celebrate is not America but two of our country's most deadly historic enemies.
This is the Breitbart take.
Founding Fathers in Peril
And here is the word from the leader of the pack, Pat Buchanan.
If We Erase Our History, Who Are We?
Pat Buchanan defends his heroes of the Confederacy and the loons at Charlottesville who revere them by implicating the entire history of the US, the age of colonialism and imperialism, and as much of Western Civilization and its history as he can in the deepest and most shameless racism.
It is not the history of the West as the story of liberty, as the rise of Enlightenment, as the birth and flourishing of scientific and industrial civilization, as the rise and spread of democracy and equality.
It is the history of the West as told in past years by Gobineau, by Houston Stewart Chamberlain, by Oswald Spengler, by Adolph Hitler, by the American Nazi party, and by the American Ku Klux Klan.
It is the history of the West as told, nowadays, by the disgraceful and shameful racist slugs whose influence on it has been its ugliest stain and its most bitter enemies, including people whose own racism is of the bitterly and deeply anti-white kind.
We might call its mildest version the Howard Zinn/The Guardian version of history.
Of course, the movement to tear down the monuments of the Confederacy and reject racism and its celebrants is not an attempt to erase history but partly to outlive it and live it down.
It is a refusal to revere those enemies of our country and the promise of universalist social and political egalitarianism, the leaders of the Confederacy and of Nazi Germany.
It is a refusal to revere figures from the past of this country whose agendas and values are simply not our own, expressly and officially for those alien values and rejected agendas.
As for the Founders, that's a mixed heritage and we'll figure out how to remember it and how and how far to revere it, and black and Indian and Asian and other nonwhite or not quite entirely white Americans will play a role in working out how.
The truth is, after all, that the America of today is not the America of 1860, 1789, or 1620, and the differences are all to the good.
And that, of things political pertaining specifically to race and identity, the most valuable things in the American past were and are the promises of equality and inclusion captured in the Declaration and saved from ruin by the Union victory over the Confederacy.
Just as Barack Obama said.
Business leaders flee Manufacturing Council
4 business leaders left Trump's manufacturing council following Charlottesville
Hmm.
Not how business leaders treated the Council of the original Mussolini.
Hmm.
Not how business leaders treated the Council of the original Mussolini.
Threats in public, pressure in private
It’s ‘Game On’ for War If North Korea Strikes Guam, Mattis Warns
In case anyone wasn't sure the DC defense establishment is right there behind the president about Korea.
North Korea Says It Won't Fire Missiles At Guam After All
Good start.
Now, about those nukes.
In case anyone wasn't sure the DC defense establishment is right there behind the president about Korea.
North Korea Says It Won't Fire Missiles At Guam After All
Good start.
Now, about those nukes.
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