These far right white privileged bollocks protesting are absolutely infuriating

[Soph0571]

I was thinking about the protests across America and the very act of these particular groups protesting is absolutely infuriating. You know who should be protesting, but are not because they are grown ups and know that staying at home saves lives:

• The 20 million who have lost their jobs without any real social security net to support them, because the republicans have spent decades eroding these social support systems.
• The 100’s of thousands who are queuing up in their cars to access food banks, risking their health, to feed their families, because of a need to rely on charity in the richest country on the planet.
• The residents of nursing and residential homes across the land who are dying in their thousands because of a lack of focus by the federal government on the virus’s impact on these care facilities.
• African Americans who are being disproportionately affected by this virus with 30% of the deaths recorded, while being only 14% of the population.
• The families of the nearly 40,000 who have died so far because of the complete and utter incompetence of Trump and his pathetic enablers.

I would understand if all these groups headed to Washington with spearheads and torches and attacked the barricades of the smug tossers palace. I would understand it completely. But they don’t and they won’t. They are grown ups. They sit at home and worry about how they are going to feed the family, pay the rent, quietly grieve their loss. Instead we have a bunch of far right selfish wankers who would see the destruction of the republic, turn up with their guns and their nazi nonsense to demand the right to increase the misery of everyone who has already been so badly affected by this virus, because they can. They live in the land of the far right white privileged freedumb. In the real world America is not free, but they really are fucking dumb.

White privileged far right bollocks indeed.

[RAB910]

1. this

[ck4829]

5. +1

[Cosmocat]

9. Wow

one of those truths that cuts too deep ...

[Roy Rolling]

16. It isn't the "White" that makes them assholes

They are privileged grifters hiding behind the hard work and sacrifice of others—black and white—who suffered to make their lives comfortable. Lazy, soulless human beings is them.

They are selfish assholes, and they give enlightened/woke white people a bad name.

Which is part of the strategy—to divide the people along racial lines. Don’t fall for propaganda generalizations, darker-skinned folks. Most lighter-skinned folks think they’re assholes, too. I know I do, and am willing to tell anyone within (social) distance.

Fuck them, and as they escalate, so does the anger against them. Their demonstration is doing the opposite of what they want. Watch them crumble before your eyes, it’s inevitable.

[LanternWaste]

25. No one is arguing it's the "White that makes them assholes"

Don't fall for post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacies.

[Soph0571]

18. Exactly this...

[bucolic_frolic]

2. If any one of those flannel overstuffed carcasses contracted COVID-19

they wouldn't last a week.

[Lonestarblue]

3. Perfect visuals to demonstrate white privilege.

[ck4829]

4. K&R

[kacekwl]

6. I would really wish the media

would stop giving credence to traitors and other "responsible" people who have no real agenda other than the love of their guns and hate of others.

[jayschool2013]

7. Thank you

My wife is an acupuncturist, and her practice is kaput for the near future. We're lucky because I have both a full-time job (though my nonprofit is in jeopardy because it supports a business, local journalism, that is not doing well in the recession) and a pension from the state of Colorado.

However, she has many friends, both here in Iowa and in Colorado who are desperate to get back to work as alternative healers, massage therapists and other hands-on service providers, almost all of whom work for themselves. In Colorado it's especially acute because of the cost of living.

Your four points above are exactly how I've viewed their situations. They want their businesses back, but they're left with only one option at this point — putting their health and lives, and their families' health and lives in jeopardy in lieu of forfeiting their homes, their savings and their sanity — all because of Republican policies that have both gutted what little safety net we've had in the country and prevented the building of more infrastructure that would fulfill that most basic obligation of government first stated in the preamble to our constitution: "to promote the general welfare" of our people and our country.

Fuck the GOP.

[Ken Newton]

8. The Second Coming

The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity. W.B. Yeats

[Delphinus]

12. Welcome to DU

Can you explain your post a bit more - I'm not sure I'm picking up what you're trying to say.

[robbob]

23. The Second Coming

BY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.

Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

(Don’t know what meaning the poster was deriving from the excerpt...)

[robbob]

24. p.s. one of the most beautiful examples of poetry set to music

By the incomparable Joni, of course!

[niyad]

28. Welcome to DU

[MerryBlooms]

10. Well stated, Soph. R&K

[Ligyron]

11. I hope they all get real sick and die painfully.

Yeah, I said it ... because I just don't care anymore.

I just feel bad for their young children who will most likely catch the bug from them.

I will admit that if I was not retired and still running my small biz, that I'd be pissed and worried about me and my employees income stream.

But even if open, I couldn't make people use our service and would therefore most likely have few customers anyway until this is crisis is resolved. If it ever really is. Who in there right mind invites death into their homes?

Only those who think this is a hoax and so more of his brain dead science deniers will sicken. There's always an upside to every crisis.

[ananda]

13. The rightwing really is a Death Cult.

They will follow their leader and Fux Nooze blindly!

They are lost.

No point wasting your emotional energy on them.

Use it for better things, like donating to left wing
causes and candidates!

[certainot]

21. their 'herd mentality' excuse for doing nothing really does make it a death cult

htat's one of the excuses they hear from their intellectual and moral leader limbaugh - basically ignoring what's happening to health care providers, first responders, senior care facilities, etc

[Pepsidog]

14. Trump could molest their children and rape their wives and they would still support him

[NRaleighLiberal]

15. it's not often one gets to see a cult of ignorance on proud, public display.

they should be laughed at, ridiculed, shunned.

[IronLionZion]

17. They went from "all lives matter" to "no lives matter"

at the speed of white

[Soph0571]

19. Heh, good one

[liberalmuse]

20. Perfectly said!

Thank you for the beautiful moral clarity.

[richdj25]

22. Mind you Soph0571

They're not all white folk. As I was heading out Saturday, I saw an African American woman being interviewed on MSNBC. She was apart of the group of so-called protesters in Maryland. I was somewhat surprised, given she doesn't fit the m/o of these people astroturfing around the country.

Wonder how much this woman was paid?

[CanonRay]

26. Well said!

[lark]

27. Guarantee you these rallies aren't organic, they are paid operations by fringe rw groups.

They organize these things without using their names and stay in the background. You notice the low #'s involved, that's because the people are not actually supporting this. It's like the Tea Party BS, total rw scam.

[niyad]

29. KNR

[Gothmog]

30. These people should be publicly identified and named, barred from treatment at any public hospital

Link to tweet

[Gothmog]

31. The Coughing Dead

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