#Charlottesville

I'm scared.

I appreciate the vigils and outpouring of anger at the Klansmen/domestic terrorists that flooded that college city -- one of which murdered a counter-protestor.  But I can't help but feel that thousands of white males showing their white pride (without masks) while parading around that town, capped off by a murder, that they somehow won.

I guess I kind of feel that way because those Nazis have a fan in the President.  His pussy-ass Both Sides Do It speech to "condemn" what was going on basically was a green light for the racists in Charlottesville -- many of whom voted for him -- to continue arguing for the subjugation of every racial group that's not white.

Oh, and by the way, even though I haven't seen people argue for this: Yes, the woman who was murdered, Heather Heyer, is white, and she is physically attractive.  The nation and the world may indeed be "woke" because terrorism killed a cute white woman.  I don't care.  She was doing what I and many other people who hate what's going on say but don't do: She protested.  She got up in the face of the people who hate and shouted back.  She died for us.  SHE DIED FOR YOU.  Respect that.

(I saw one tweet where Bernie Sanders commemorated Heyer, who was active in his campaign in Virginia.  That tweet was quoted by a pro-Hillary/anti-Berners who admonished Sanders for using Heyer as a political prop.  He was noting all that she did for him.  This internecine warfare is how these Republicans got into power.  FUCKING STOP IT.  NOW.)

The nation's reaction -- forget Trump and the White House, and fuck the Republican Congress too -- will set the course of our society, and whether we decide to go down the path of justice or destruction.  There's a Twitter account, for example, hoping that crowdsourcing will identify and eventually get into trouble all the white Klansman who marched with tiki torches Friday and beat protestors Saturday.  I have a little trepidation -- a little -- that the mob will get the wrong guy.  But I'm more afraid that we put these bigoted assholes on blast, identify their employers, tell those companies they should be fired ... and then those companies will say that what their employees do on their own time is their business and they won't be fired.  That won't be unlike what Trump said on Saturday -- not taking a stand against racism, and therefore condoning racism.  If people who sympathize with these Klansman start to take a public stand, well, that shows how emboldened bigots are because of the election (with help from Russia, voter suppression and gerrymandering, of course).  Then where will we be?