Stop the False Equivalency!

@anniepa (27955)
United States
August 16, 2017 11:25pm CST
I took the liberty of copying a tweet by a former GOP member of Congress. I'm a Democrat so you can see that for me this isn't a partisan issue, it's simply a matter of right and wrong...not right and left. " David Jolly?Verified account @DavidJollyFL Let's make this easy. Condemning violence by anyone: OK. Equating groups seeking racial Supremacy w those seeking racial Equality: NOT OK. 4:50 PM - 16 Aug 2017"
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@marguicha (223793)
• Chile
17 Aug 17
Violence is terrible. There was loss of human lives and that cannot be mended.
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@dlr297 (5409)
• United States
23 Aug 17
Any one seeking something with violence is not OK.....
@anniepa (27955)
• United States
23 Aug 17
So does that mean you agree that none of those white supremacists/Neo-Nazis/KKK members were "fine people"?
@anniepa (27955)
• United States
23 Aug 17
@dlr297 The media didn't twist anything, I heard the bigot's press conference, I know precisely what he said. I don't know how many ways there are to say this - "fine people" don't march with Nazis and KKK members or anyone associated with white supremacy. They don't associate with them AT ALL. If a "fine person" somehow inadvertently showed up among those horrid people carrying torches and swastikas,the night before the rally, for instance, he or she wouldn't have been able to get out of there fast enough! I think the "natifa" you refer to is actually "Antifa", which is short for anti fascist. Were you even aware that some of these antifa protestors protected a group of mostly religious leaders? Regarding the polls about people wanting the statues and monuments to remain, it's worth noting that many people believe these items had been there for over a century or more, that they were truly historical. In truth most of them were erected during Jim Crow and their intent is and was purely bigoted and racist.
@anniepa (27955)
• United States
24 Aug 17
@dlr297 We're discussing the racist, anti-Semitic BIGOT in the White House right now, not black slave owners from a couple hundred years ago! As far as the Civile Rights Act and Voting Rights Act of 1964 and 1965 respectively, check your history. President Lyundon B. Johnson was NOT a Republican and when he signed the Civil Rights Act he acknowledged that he'd probably lost the south for the Democrats for decades. Apparently YOU haven't listened to the orange man's speeches since his racist rant of a little over a week ago. At his ridiculous campaign rally the other night he read from his supposed statement from the week before mysteriously omitting the part the media and the vast majority of Americans from both parties were so outraged about - "...many sides, many sides..." and that DEPLORABLE comment about the "very fine people" among the Nazis and KKK marchers. There's no point to this, you'd agree with him if he defended a serial killer. What's amazing is you don't seem to realize he often doesn't even agree with HIMSELF! By the way, please don't refer to him as "our President"; he's not and never will be MY President.