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| Car Plows Into Counter Protesters at a White Nationalist Rally in Charlottesville, Va. | |
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| MacReadyOrNot | Aug 13 2017, 01:48 PM Post #1 |
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| Kevin R. | Aug 15 2017, 03:20 AM Post #2 |
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So, are they still just harmless trolls and pranksters? And the President took two days to give a response that specifically called out the neo-Nazis, and only after members of his own party were coming down on him for it. |
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| Vanessa | Aug 15 2017, 04:39 AM Post #3 |
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The count of people injured is up to 34 now. The New York Times has an article about the woman that died. |
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| Baby Firefly | Aug 15 2017, 06:48 AM Post #4 |
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I read a truly disgusting article about the deceased woman. This whole thing just makes me feel sick. It also makes me sick that so many indie filmmakers and actors and paranormal investigators and authors (all Horror) I know are totally cool with this. I just saved well over a thousand dollars over the next year because I decided to stop supporting their projects. Why is bigotry so common in the Horror community? |
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| Lon Of The Dead | Aug 15 2017, 01:54 PM Post #5 |
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Killer's Therapist
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Which filmmakers etc are you talking about? And which article? I can't imagine bigotry being as rampant as you're suggesting in the horror community. I've been a member of numerous horror communities since the internet first gave rise to them, and I can't say I've ever encountered it on the level you're suggesting it exists. Sure, every now and then you get an occasional asshole, but I don't see it as something widespread in the genre community. At any rate, I've been putting off replying about this incident because, really, what is there to say? It should not have happened. Racism should not exist -- it's the 21st goddamn century, we're supposed to be better than this. And sadly too many people forget about the "peaceably" part of the right to peaceably assemble when blind, ignorant hatred and anger are involved. Hatred trumps civility every time; you need not look further than our White House to see that (I used the word "trump" for a reason, after all). If I thought it would make a difference, I would tell all those Alt-Right/supremacists/bigots that our country is a nation founded by immigrants, and that opening our arms to other races, classes and beliefs is part of our country's mission statement. As such, hating others for the color of their skin, for their beliefs, or for their sexual preferences, is categorically un-American, and they should find another country to live in because they're not welcome here. But those words would fall on deaf ears. Because hate not only trumps civility, it also trumps trumps rationality. And bigotry, as we all know, is by definition irrational. Edited by Lon Of The Dead, Aug 15 2017, 02:02 PM.
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| Vanessa | Aug 15 2017, 07:34 PM Post #6 |
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Jon sees more of the Facebook stuff, but loads of people in the horror community on reddit are red pillers. They just know enough to not make it totally obvious. Even one of the Dreadit moderators are one. |
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| Lon Of The Dead | Aug 15 2017, 10:13 PM Post #7 |
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Ah. I'm rarely on Facebook (and when I do log in, I don't visit any horror groups), and believe it or not, have never visited Reddit, hence my ignorance. Kind of glad to be ignorant in this instance, though; if Reddit's that full of haters, I'm glad I've never ventured there.
Edited by Lon Of The Dead, Aug 15 2017, 10:14 PM.
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| Vanessa | Aug 16 2017, 01:04 AM Post #8 |
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It's hidden enough that if you just did a surface level look around that you probably wouldn't notice it. Most of the people there don't agree with the sexist and racist groups, so they can't start talking about it in horror movie threads without expecting a little bit of a backlash. Chances are you're going to run into someone that spends their time in other subreddits talking about how women are evil idiots without having to look around too much. Misogyny is the gateway to the racism. |
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| Lon Of The Dead | Aug 16 2017, 02:25 AM Post #9 |
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In which case it's just as well that I've never bothered checking out Reddit. My faults are numerous and wide-ranging, but I am proud to say do not extend to racism, misogyny or bigotry. So I doubt I'd fit in well there. Back to the topic at hand, though. I have read arguments from some very insipid people that the anti-bigot protesters are also partially to blame for the violence which occurred. And to an extent, that is true. It takes two to tango and all that. There's also the matter of the first amendment granting even racist asshole fuck-tards the right to assemble and voice their beliefs, however brain-dead and cocksuck-y they may be. And while intelligent and higher evolved people have a right to attend those assemblies to protest, neither side have the right to lay a hand on the other in the process. That's the definition of the right to peaceably assemble -- get as loud as you want, use every insult in the book if you want, but you do not have the right to physically assault anyone in the course of the debate. Now, I don't know which side threw the first punch, but I would argue that in this instance, who swung first is actually irrelevant. What is relevant, exceedingly so, is that the reason these despicable skid marks felt empowered to assemble in the first place and spew their filth is because we have as our president a man who wears his elitism, sexism and intolerance for anything not rich and white on his thousand-dollar sleeve, and his daily verbal vomiting of hate, slantism and petty bile shows the haters, hey, it's cool, step on up, spread your muslim- and nigger-hatin' wings and fly. That's our America now. Fifty-some years of advancements in civil rights, undone in the span of a weekend simply because Donald Trump didn't want to risk alienating his base of elitist white assholes. And when he does finally denounce them -- two days after the fact -- he turns around the very next day and demonstrates incontrovertibly that his denouncement was barely more than lip service. If we really want this shit to go away, we have to start with the biggest obstacle standing in the way of our progress -- and right now, that obstacle is our own fucking president. Edited by Lon Of The Dead, Aug 16 2017, 02:27 AM.
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