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In reply to the discussion: KKK group heavily outnumbered by counterprotesters at their own rally in Dayton [View all]Jedi Guy
(3,185 posts)22. I'm not sure how to tell you this, but...
A lot of the fellows your father served with probably held racist views not too dissimilar from the jackwagons who were protesting today. Racist views back then were not uncommon. Your father might not have held them, but I guaran-damn-tee you a fair chunk of his fellow soldiers did.
And in your hypothetical scenario, your father shooting one of these jackwagons in the head would be murder. You don't get to kill people just because you find their views or politics abhorrent. They have the same rights to free speech that you and I do.
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KKK group heavily outnumbered by counterprotesters at their own rally in Dayton [View all]
Norbert
May 2019
OP
It's not the KKK we have to worry about, it's those who vote for the trumps, mcconnells, white wing
Hoyt
May 2019
#31
Don't think it's the media. One has to be susceptible to FOX, etc., hatred to buy it.
Hoyt
May 2019
#41