The whole “good people on both sides” bit by Trump has been routinely debunked. He makes it very clear soon after that moment he was not talking about white supremacists. He said he “condemns them totally”. Also, racists DO routinely show their faces. Richard Spencer, David Duke and that many others on YouTube. It’s important that you avoid using that tired and untrue bit to bolster up the parts of Trump that are genuinely bad. It hurts your arguments.
Trump MAY be racist, but he has never given us anything to suggest he is a white nationalist. Those are two very different things. Many, many people hold casual, racist beliefs but are definitely not white nationalists. Most racists are like anyone else and willing to leave others alone so long as the same courtesy is reciprocated. White nationalists are the exact opposite of that. They want the explicit and violent domination, expulsion or enslavement of anyone not white.
And Antifa may not be fascist but many are certainly communist and authoritarian. Both those variants of socialism are violent and tyrannical and should be rejected always. Actually, socialism is also tyrannical and should be rejected at well.
I think Crowder is often a jerk for effect and agree with you that the whole “well that’s how clashing cultures works” bit, while accurate, doesn’t excuse the practice. Ghengis Khan, Nazis, Ancient Persians, Muhammed and many others benefitted from this mindset and I for one think it’s gross and evil. I do think it’s worth considering though that Crowder does have a point, that while the US government has treated the Native Americans poorly, the relationship was indeed more complex with it as an institution and with the people it governed and took place during a very different time with rules very different by today’s standards.
Finally, Spike Lee sounds like a dolt when talking about the 1619 project. He’s a good filmmaker and tells really good, visual stories but he really can’t communicate well during an interview. I think he was a bad choice as an ambassador for that project, as ill conceived or well intentioned as it is.
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