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Originally Posted by Jack Sawyer
All he has to do is denounce and reject them. Simply tell them to fuck off. And yet for some reason he can't. And that is the point where the news people try to guess as to why. Why the fuck would he not tell the nazis to fuck off?
Because in American, every citizen, regardless of their political views, has the right to free speech and peaceful assembly. Someone actually took the time to list all the rights that people have, and that one is in the first paragraph. These groups gathered to protest the removal of a statue. They are entirely within their rights to do so. The exact same rules apply to the counter-protesters.
Just because one side is comprised of people who espouse vile, revolting, and repulsive viewpoints doesn't mean they are any less entitled to express their views on the presence of public monuments.
With the exception of the vehicular homicide, it would be wrong for the president to dismiss, or condemn, the lawful actions of one side and not the other.
The media puts Trump in a no-win situation. If he says "Nazis fuck off", then there will be folks who say "well, what about the first amendment?". And if Trump says "They have a right to protest", then there will be folks who say "But they hate black people, that must mean that you hate black people Mr. Trump!"
It really is concerning to me how many [liberals, democrats, progressives, sjw's...whatever you want to call them] are actually of the belief that it's ok to deny constitutional rights of free speech to people that you don't like by applying an absurd and transparent double standard. Despite being absurd and transparent, the double standard has been embraced by the mainstream.
-"Hey look there's an angry mob of violent protesters destroying the town of Furgeson, MO"
-"Yeah, but it's ok cause they're really mad at a white guy"
-"Hey look, there's an angry mob of violent protesters ransacking the campus of UC Berkley"
-"Yeah, but they're trying to stop a white guy from talking"
-"Hey look, there's a group of protesters speaking out against the removal of a civil war statue"
-"They're white....they shouldn't be allowed to do that!"
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