Only the right can solve white supremacy

[thewhyteboar]

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/08/the-right-bears-a-special-responsibility-in-the-fight-against-white-nationalism/596479/

 

Retired Marine General John Allen and the former senior U.S. diplomat Brett McGurk have argued that far-right extremism poses “an equal threat” as jihadist groups such as ISIS.
This is incorrect. White nationalism is a far greater threat to American democracy than jihadism, and always has been. But there are actually two challenges posed by white nationalism: One is the threat posed to American communities by attacks like the one in El Paso, which law enforcement can and should prevent. The other is the threat the ideology the attackers support poses to American democracy, which can be defeated only through politics, and only by the American people themselves.

 

This is such a good article. 

[marioandsonic]

And they won't do anything about it.  Good to know.

[Commissar SFLUFAN]

It's a decent article for the most part, but my immediate response to it is ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

The last paragraphs are just...ugh...

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The factors fueling violent white nationalism can be neutralized only by Americans themselves—by reaffirming that the United States is a multiracial democracy where no citizen inherits a greater claim to Americanness than any other. That will require enough of both left and right to unify in opposition to the bigotries that have plagued America since even before its founding, and rejecting the proposition that those bigotries are the only true, authentic expression of American heritage. That heritage includes not just John Calhoun but also Frederick Douglass, not just Madison Grant but also Emma Lazarus, not merely Jim Crow but also James Meredith.

 

It will also require those on the American right to turn from the path they have been walking, since even before Trump demanded that the first black president show his papers. Few of them seem prepared to do so.

I really can't come up with a reaction other than "OK, and...?"

[Rodimus]

As long as white supremacist vote and vote for Republicans they will not stand up to them. the white supremacist left the Democrats over civil rights and the republicans have rolled out the welcome mat for them since then. This is just a more public open pandering for them.

[Spawn_of_Apathy]

Maybe we should treat them like ISIS and have our state militias and national guard fight a war with against them.