Many participants were taught the lyrics to the Confederate anthem âDixie.â The protest was based on a desire to preserve Southern history. However, it involved a considerable number of people with no connection to the South. They were celebrating the Confederacy not for its own history, but as a symbol of white supremacy.
Kind of like the CSA statues themselves.
Just as feudalism or mercantilism came to end, so too will capitalism. Ultimately itâs not sustainable. What replaces it Iâve no idea. Some sort of steady state economy probably, but also not something likely to happen for generations - although I think those that describe it now as âlast stage capitalismâ arenât far off.
(For the record, Iâm not young.)
And then they realize humanity is a boil on the butt of the planet andâŚwell, you know.
Really, the whole article is gold.
âHow is it hearsay when itâs your clientâs own words?" Higgins replied, overruling Woodardâs objection.
Woodard then offered what he said was a quote by comedian Jackie Mason, saying that âtake my wife, please"â was obviously not intended as a literal desire to kill or abandon a woman (the quote is actually from Henny Youngman). He compared Cantwellâs hate-filled monologues against Jews, blacks, Muslims, and other minorities on his podcasts to Mason. Woodard said it was all a âshock jockâ act.
But when Tracci asked Cantwell to describe what he does for a living, he answered: âI do a racist podcast.â
After Cantwell had already admitted that he had sprayed one of the protesters with pepper spray, Woodard said Cantwell âcould have sprayed water, he could have sprayed anything, nobody has proven that it was pepper spray or mace or anything else.â
Oh. My. God.
This is literally the lawyer:
This is actually his office. You can zoom in on the building sign to confirm.
The address matches his entry in the legal directory.
Apparently that lawyer was Cantwellâs fourth pick. The first three wouldnât touch him.
magnet
1974
I see he is going for the Chewbacca defense.
Truly, the most magnificent legal defense ever provided
I can imagine driving up and down looking for an office before finally pulling up next to that shack to ask for directions andâŚ
barstein
1977
barstein
1978
At the risk of reigniting the free speech thing:
âAmerica has this back-ass-wards Calvinist streak where calling for the expulsion and genocide of non-white races is just a difference of opinion,â Boivin said. âBut making a sex joke at a corporate mascot who paid money to advertise to you is cause for censure.â
JoshL
1979
Well I hope nobody reignites that argument, since being suspended/banned from twitter is not a violation of anyoneâs rights. Nobody has a right to Twitter. Iâm thankful that I still have a right to ignore Twitter.
Oh geez, I just did it, didnât I?
barstein
1980
Yeah, IMO the Tony the Tiger thing is absolutely about Twitterâs policies and their ban algorithm with regard to verified (blue badge) accounts, and not about free speech.
barstein
1981
Been reading this fascinating Harperâs piece by Dorothy Thompson, written in 1941:
Who Goes Nazi?
It is an interesting and somewhat macabre parlor game to play at a large gathering of oneâs acquaintances: to speculate who in a showdown would go Nazi. By now, I think I know. I have gone through the experience many timesâin Germany, in Austria, and in France. I have come to know the types: the born Nazis, the Nazis whom democracy itself has created, the certain-to-be fellow-travelers. And I also know those who never, under any conceivable circumstances, would become Nazis.
Itâs anchored to its time in some obvious ways, but Iâm struck by how many of her observations could also apply to 2017.
(This Dorothy Thompson)
Thank you for linking this. This is wonderful. Thompson is a writer par excellence. Mmm.
Well, one idiot does apparently.
