I am really tired of hearing politicians say we must “unite” the country. They claim to know how to bridge the divisions. No, they don’t and they can’t.
When I see white men (and a few white women) marching with torches and chanting hateful slogans; when I see them threatening blacks and Jews and others they hate; when I see the president saying that these marchers and charters include “many very fine people,” I know that unity is impossible.
This is the most talked-about video on Charlottesville.
There are no grounds for unity with self-proclaimed Nazis and KKK.
Nope.
They have free speech rights. But their hateful views must be exposed, condemned, and vilified.
We can turn the other cheek, but we must not let their views multiply, because they are inherently divisive and destructive. When they rally, surround them with reminders and symbols of what we believe, what American soldiers have fought and died for: freedom, equality, democracy, justice for all, the equal worth and dignity of all people.
Do not meet their violence with violence, as that is the confrontation they hope for.
Meet their vehemence with decency and courtesy, as this young woman in Boston did.
Meet their violence with swift justice.
We can never unify with those who hate our ideals.
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When I see users on this list advocate for violence against those with whom they disagree, there is yet another reason why this country cannot unite.
When I see the language used for those whose opinions are not shared, I see another reason why this country cannot unite.
It is easy to take potshots at the current president, his secretary for education, or, for that matter, anyone else, but how about making a POSITIVE contribution, and come up with workable suggestions?
The main “weapon” in politics should be compromise rather than confrontation. But when the country gives in to mob rule (no matter which mob!), we’ve lost.
Confederate monuments are taken down left and right. NOT because of thoughtful decision making, but because of fear for the mobs – be they for or against.
L. Kinyon,
Please advise what kind of compromises we should make with Nazis and KKK.
My entire family in Europe was exterminated by their heroes. Do you think they compromised too much or too little?
L. Kinyon
Do you suppose that 40,000 klansman and Nazis gathering in Boston opposing 2 dozen leftists would have had a similar outcome to what we saw .
Sorry if Nazis and Klansman are the what you call the right and to some degree they now are, any resistance is warranted . There have been some pretty revolting characters on the right for years . This goes a step further. There are no good people who march shoulder to shoulder with Nazis nor Klansman. All those who dismiss that fact are as guilty as the Nazis themselves . As guilty as those Germans who thronged the streets in 1930s Germany to cheer on that other demagogue.
The statues of traitors should come down . They were erected to stand over Southern Towns to show Blacks that slavery had not ended. A symbol of a disgusting period in our history .
I had no strong opinion about the statues until I started reading more about the carefully cultivated climate of terror and oppression between 1890 and 1930. Now I think they absolutely must be taken off their pedestals and go into museums that provide the ugly context. Critical thinking skills without facts are impotent. Unfortunately Common Core, NGSS and the overall zeitgeist in schools today says that skills matter most; teaching facts is no longer a high priority in our schools, especially at the K-8 level. In the name of bolstering skills, the new history frameworks in CA invite teachers to leave big holes in students’ exposure to history. Unless we teachers dedicate ourselves to teaching the important facts well and memorably, a long, difficult and slow process, much important information –like these facts about the monuments —will not get transmitted.
As sad as I am about your parents, the problem started way before the death camps started to operate.
When known and elected officials cannot have a decent conversation without badmouthing one another, how can you expect anyone else in the the nation NOT to follow that example?
When a different opinion is shouted down, how can any discussion take place?
When those who oppose Nazis and White supremacists use mace, baseball bats and such to “defend” the park where a lawful demonstration was permitted by the city – how can they keep the moral high ground? Just because they are not Nazis? They acted the same… Newspaper accounts such as in the LA Times and others show how some of the fighting started.
When I see one of your frequent posters stating that he would take a sniper rifle… What makes him any different?
King and Gandhi were killed – but their legacy is much stronger and lasts much longer than a Malcolm X, who used violence…
L. Kinyon,
Just to set the record straight. My parents were not killed in the Nazi gas factories. My mother came here in 1917, and my father’s family came before the Civil War. But every single member of their family who remained in Europe was gassed and killed by people called Nazis and wearing Swastikas.
Why do those “protestors” call themselves Nazis? Don’t they know that many American soldiers died fighting Nazis? They didn’t become Nazis because someone called them that. That’s what they call themselves.
I believe in nonviolence. But those Nazis came armed to the teeth, looking for a fight and for violence. Nazis love violence.
ponderosa
Even when we were taught History .In my case in the 60s and early seventies in college . We came through with out a full understanding of the situation .I might have to have taken a course in post civil war reconstruction 1865- Jim Crow to have the understanding of those monuments and then it would have required a diverse reading list. So learning is a continual process. One that requires a good foundation but must be pursued through life as that our understanding of history is not without Political and Economic forces being leveraged on the material available .
Someone posted an editorial this morning the gist of which with out rereading it again . (I read it a few weeks ago.) was that the counter culture of the sixties and its questioning of authority and objective reality . Has led us to this post factual world .
I would say that it is probably wrong on many accounts the least of which is that those on the rt willing to accept “alternative facts” are least likely to search out alternative explanations for the facts they choose to believe. Are most likely to accept authoritarians as leaders.
Absolutely question every item that you read and then determine what explanations are most consistent with the facts . We see this in debates through out the economy from education, to trade , to skills shortages , to comparing economic systems as a whole. Yes Trump is right to point out that the media has inherent bias . But that is in their opinions which as we know from the Ed wars tend to bleed into news stories . But again those who believe in “alternative facts ” never question those facts they believe in That is a Liberal word view that does that not a Right wing view. A world view that values education for its empowerment of thinkers rather than “worker bees”
I am not calling the Nazis etc anything – other than what they call themselves. Using the term “Nazi” has enough of an historical stigma attached to it that I don’t need to add any labels.
again without one word. Good thing I was an anthropology major not an ed major. The school of linguistics claims there are no superior languages . I’ll take that cop-out
If you ever get a chance to visit the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, AL, I highly recommend the trip. They have a museum that traces the history of the civil rights movement from the Montgomery bus boycott. SPLC has been actively engaged in prosecuting and tracking hate groups in our country. As a result of their work, they have been firebombed and shot at over the years, but fortunately, not recently.
Tim Cook of Apple donated $1 million to the Southern Poverty Law Center and another million to the Anti-Defamation League, both stalwart opponents of hate groups and racists.
James Murdoch, Rupert’s son, donated $1 million to the ADL, and encouraged his employees to contribute as well.
The Murdoch gift came from both James Murdoch and his wife Kathryn. If you read her Twitter feed, you will be amazed. She is very concerned about the environment and very much opposed to Trump. How long will Fox continue to be a rightwing network?
“It is easy to take potshots at the current president, his secretary for education, or, for that matter, anyone else, but how about making a POSITIVE contribution, and come up with workable suggestions?”
I suggest voting for whatever Democrat is running against Trump in 2020.
“It is easy to take potshots at the current president, his secretary for education, or, for that matter, anyone else, but how about making a POSITIVE contribution, and come up with workable suggestions?”
What a good idea! After eight years of attacks against Obama, this administration is certainly showing us how to act on their convictions. Do you really think the Trump regime is interested in “workable suggestions” from the opposition?
Fake President Trump, the Kremlin’s Agent Orange, is not interested in anything that is workable. It is clear that he wants to destroy the U.S. government. Why else would he name his teams to each federal department, beachhead teams? Why else would he appoint people that have a belligerent history against the agencies they were assigned to lead? No, there is nothing positive to say about and to Trump and his ignorant and/or hate-filled racist deplorable supporters.
I hope you know, Lloyd, that my tongue was firmly in my cheek.
I suspected it, but I couldn’t’ help myself. :o)
You are absolutely part of the problem in our country, sowing seeds of division and opposition in the name of social justice. Of course, we must condemn racism. Of course, Trump was foolish when he talked of “very fine people” on both sides. A vast majority of the country stands in contempt of racism and hate, and THESE are the people that must be unified.
You and a lot of other people have created a false dichotomy in our society, an artificial world in which 50% of the country must – because of their political party affiliation – stand completely against all that is just & fair. The right does it, and the left does it too. Those of us who in the middle are TIRED of our leaders hijacking the conversation and drawing lines in the sand between us and our neighbors, family members, fellow educators, etc.
Call racism, white supremacy, terrorism, etc. by name and for what it is. Draw a deep line between those of us who support equality and those of us who do not. But do NOT assume that everyone who voted for so-and-so, or who supports policy Y or Z, stands on one side of the line or the other. There IS evil in the world, but my Trump-voting neighbor isn’t the devil. There ARE anti-Americans in America, but my Bernie-voting sister is NOT one of them.
Please, please stop dragging the name of social justice through the mud as you sow seeds of division, stereotype, and mistrust of our fellow citizens. Let us talk to each other again as fellow citizens and human beings who disagree with each other, but assume common decency.
Re “They have free speech rights.” Uh, no. They have protected speech rights and “hate speech” is harmful, therefore it is not protected by the Constitution. (So sayeth SCOTUS.)
Hate speech is like shouting “Fire!” in a crowded theater when there is no fire. They ain’t protected, no siree.
This guy, who worked for the Obama Administration and was a public employee, cannot find ONE positive thing to say about any public school in the country:
“School choice is a response to a bureaucratic and ineffective education system that is not evolving to meet the needs of America’s racially and economically diverse student population. By many different measures, traditional public schools are falling short.”
“Another key finding of the poll is that opposition to using public money to buy private education through vouchers or tax credits is softening. Inner-city parents see uniformed kids marching off to Catholic schools each morning and wonder why their public schools don’t foster the same feelings of self-esteem and pride.
Black and Hispanic parents see high teacher turnover in their public schools and wonder why so few teachers are people of color. They see increasingly militant teachers unions threatening strikes and anti-tax politicians unwilling to fund schools adequately, and they want to remove these uncertainties from their lives.”‘
How great is that?
The VERY PEOPLE who defund public schools are now attacking public schools for a lack of funding.
Make no mistake. These people are political professionals. This is an ANTI public school campaign they are running and many of them are IN government.
They’re opposed to the continued existence of your kid’s school and they are are now or have been on the public payroll, in a country where NINETY PER CENT of kids attend public schools. How did this happen? How did we end up with tens of thousands of publicly-paid employees who oppose the schools our kids attend?
https://www.the74million.org/article/cunningham-the-school-choice-debate-has-derailed-its-time-to-focus-on-parents-rights-student-success
With this article, Chiara, Peter Cunningham demonstrates that there is no difference between him, the “reformers,” the charter advocates and the Trump-DeVos agenda.
They are on the same team with the Walton family (which funds The 74 and Cunningham’s website Education Post), the Koch brothers, and ALEC.
The only possible decent people in those KKK/Nazi mobs are the police and FBI undercover agents who have infiltrated their ranks. We defeated the Nazis in WWII at massive cost in lives and blood. The CSA was soundly defeated at great cost in life and blood, estimated at 650,000 to over 700,000 combatants. About 450,000 US troops were lost in WWII fighting the Nazis and the Japanese. And here we are in 2017 refighting the ideologies or issues of the Civil War and WWII? That mob with the torches is all about hatred, racism, bigotry, destruction and division. There is no positive message coming from Nazis or KKKers. They are vicious knuckleheads and we can only hope that some of these fools will come to their senses and reject this poisonous KKK/Nazi/fascist/white supremacist ideology.
While hate groups may be entitled to free speech rights, I have no problem with some internet providers refusing to give them access. The views they are supporting are illegal so responsible internet providers should have no problem refusing to allow them to use their platform to incite hatred.
“Hate speech is like shouting “Fire!” in a crowded theater when there is no fire. They ain’t protected, no siree.”
I’m with Steve Ruis.
We had made some progress until the advent of Trump and his rhetoric. There are ALWAYS differences of opinions but he has divided the nation in ways few if any in the last few decades have done..
A nation divided against itself cannot stand. I personally think Bin Laden has won, at least to a major degree. The things he wished for are now happening within our country.
Someone said, I believe rightly, that the war on “terror” which we are now waging is a war against an idea and can never be defeated with bombs and bullets.
It would never have happened but I often wonder instead of sending in our military had we not sent in the things that would have shown the Near East that indeed we were on their side and not their enemy, that we truly cared about them: money for roads and infrastructure, cleared the mines, opened more schools etc etc. George W professed his “Christian” beliefs. This latter was what in my view Jesus taught. Certainly the trillions of dollars we have spent in destruction have raised a host of terrorists who now hate us so much that they, are willing to become suicide bombers because of the destruction we have caused their country and people. Had those trillions been spent to build up their country ala after WWII via the Marshall plan would we now be in the situation of perennial fear of terrorist attacks? Who can say for sure but I have my beliefs.
Beyond attending Christian Sunday Schools until about the age of 13, I have not been drawn to any religious group. I have, however, had some scary encounters with persons who claim to be born again, are evangelical zealots, non-believers in science, attend churches that are predominantly or exclusively white, believe women should be subservient to men, and the rest.
I prefer the understanding of Christianity forwarded by Reverend William Barber II, http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jul/17/william-barber-naacp-president-and-pastor-says-pra/
Many of the high-profile evangelical supporters of Trump will not speak Trump’s name or leave his inner circle. Like Republicans who refuse to call out Trump, their silence encourages the proliferation of false moral equivalencies and Rorschach-like interpretations of the aims of the KKK and Nazi groups that Trump has emboldened.
From the Washington Post, August 19, 2017. Begin quote
“Only one of Trump’s evangelical advisers has quit the role, while presidential boards in other fields saw multiple defections before being dismantled. The Rev. A.R. Bernard, pastor of the Christian Cultural Center in Brooklyn and one of the most influential clergymen in New York, announced his decision Friday night, saying “there was a deepening conflict in values between myself and the administration.”
Trump’s evangelical council members have strongly condemned the bigotry behind the Charlottesville march by white nationalists and neo-Nazis over the removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. But regarding Trump, they have offered either praise for his response or gentle critiques couched within complaints about how he has been treated by his critics and the media. End Quote
Criticisms of Trump need to go well beyond “genle critiques” and the all-purpose compaints about his treatment in the media.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/religion/trumps-evangelical-advisers-sticking-with-him-amid-fallout/2017/08/18/70f995a0-8474-11e7-9e7a-20fa8d7a0db6_story.html?utm_term=.20c873180c10
Indiana’s ‘great leader’ Pence was probably not going to win the next election to become governor. So, he saw great opportunism in walking with Trump.
I was happy that he no longer was going to be governor. He now might have the opportunity to wreck the whole nation.
Read about the horrors that Indiana endured under Pence.
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Will the Nightmare of President Donald Trump Become the Nightmare of President Mike Pence? @alternet
…After becoming governor in 2013, he faced a state fiscal crisis. He cut tens of millions from the budget for higher education, social agencies and human services. Although Indiana’s economy had the nation’s worst job growth, he signed bills blocking local governments from raising the minimum wage or requiring businesses to offer better benefits. He pushed cutting income and business taxes, but would not sign laws reversing other regressive taxes.
Pence was a big booster of privatizing government services, whether new highways or traditional public schools. He repeatedly acted to boost charter schools and vouchers and undermine the teachers’ unions, including making the state Board of Education an arm of the executive branch. From there, he clashed with educators over treatment of transgender students.
On energy and the environment, he rolled back energy efficiency standards, denounced and fought with the federal Environmental Protection Agency and declared Indiana was a pro-coal state. On guns, he signed a bill to let people keep guns in their cars parked on school grounds, recruited the NRA to train the Indiana National Guard and pre-empted the city of Gary from suing gun manufacturers whose weapons were sold illegally.
On health, he and the state GOP defunded Planned Parenthood, even with southern Indiana experiencing an HIV epidemic. He opposed needle exchanges for drug addiction treatment. While he did accept Obamacare funds to expand state-run Medicaid, he added bigger co-payments for recipients.
Pence received national attention after signing a so-called religious freedom bill in 2015, prompting some big state employers—notably Angie’s List—to cancel a state-based expansion in Indianapolis, costing the state 1,000 jobs. The backlash forced him to rescind parts of the law. On women’s health and reproductive rights, Pence has been a fundamentalist, signing into law a bill banning abortion procedures and penalizing providers. A federal court overruled the law, saying it was unconstitutional.
Pence also tried to create a state-run news service, to circumvent local media. He’s repeatedly stonewalled reporters seeking public documents. He is known for using private emails to conduct official business—the same thing he criticized Hillary Clinton for. And he tried but failed to prevent Syrian refugees from resettling in the state. A court stopped him.
In the fall 2016 campaign, Pence said his role model for the vice presidency, if elected, would be Dick Cheney, George W. Bush’s powerful surrogate.
“I frankly hold Dick Cheney in really high regard in his role as vice president and as an American,” he told ABC-TV. “Vice President Cheney had experience in Congress as I do, and he was very active in working with members of the House and the Senate.”…
http://www.alternet.org/right-wing/will-nightmare-president-donald-trump-become-nightmare-president-mike-pence#.WZsP9s7RYVs.gmail
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Read about the horrors that Indiana endured under Pence.
http://www.alternet.org/right-wing/will-nightmare-president-donald-trump-become-nightmare-president-mike-pence#.WZsP9s7RYVs.gmail
Diane,
I believe there may be a curriculum that could unite the country –or come close. Obviously we don’t have it yet. I can imagine a robust K-12 American culture curriculum that both celebrated and criticized, that imbued both pride and humility, that steered a middle course between jingoism and myopic, relentless focus on sins.
Ponderosa,
I don’t think I will ever agree with a Nazi or member of the KKK.
Understandably, nor should you try. But it seems to me we can’t excommunicate all of the Trump voters who are insufficiently horrified by Charlottesville, if for no other reason than that there are too many of them; that we ought to try to bring them out of the darkness (and bring all young people, regardless of political orientation, out of the darkness into which we’re all born). I don’t think the curricula we’re using are doing this. For the most part, they don’t even aim to do this. It’s all mental weightlifting, not illumination.
Dan Rather:
History will demand to know which side were you on. None of us can afford to remain silent.
We have survived deep challenges in our past…and we can do so again. But we cannot be afraid to speak and act to ensure the future we want for our children”
Our political system depends on both parties going after each other. But, the Democrats have brought this to a new level. Trump says some of the dumbest stuff I have ever heard, but if he announced that he had cured cancer, the Democrats would want the FBI to investigate if he was going to personally profit from the cure.
The Democrats have to engage the country concerning its ideas. Everything else is noise.
I remember the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearings on the nomination of Robert Bork to the US Supreme Court. Within minutes of Reagan announcing the nomination, Ted Kennedy took to the Senate floor with a statement about “Robert Bork’s America.” It was all downhill from there. If I recall correctly, Bork had been confirmed for an appellate court judgeship a few years earlier in a 97-0 or 98-0 vote by the same Senate.
Since the Bork saga, Supreme Court nominations have become three ring circuses culminating in McConnell’s refusal to even hold hearings on Garland.
I suspect the same will be true when a Democrat once again wins the presidential election. Republicans will question the person’s legitimacy and oppose everything the person does from Day One, not because they disagree but because they are of a different party.
We are seeing the tearing apart of America. The Democrats should be wary of putting too much faith in the polls that show Trump around 40% approval. That number alone is stunning considering how poorly he has conducted his presidency. However, that seems to be his bedrock support. Once the indifferent are forced to choose I can see Trump once again winning 46 or 47% of the vote and piecing together an Electoral College majority.
Again, the Democrats have to engage America in a battle of ideas, instead of merely taking to the streets.
Our political system is designed to be adversarial. Interestingly, the words “political party” do not appear anywhere in the US Constitution.
The Democrats ideas are mostly stale and unimaginative. “Selling” these ideas to the American electorate, is going to be a chore.
If the Dems are stale, the GOP is totally rancid and moldy
All right. Here’s an idea for you:
The Republicans are trying to create a narrative that the Democrats are against free speech. So they have a plan: they invite assholes who say hateful things to speak, just because they want to freak out the Democrats. But they almost never self-reflect, stop a moment, and think: do we Republicans really want these assholes who say hateful things to speak for us? Because when the invitation is issued, make no mistake, those assholes are speaking FOR the Republican party.
Words have power. Words have consequences. If the Republican party keeps on hosting hateful speakers, they shouldn’t be surprised when hate follows them right into the party.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/450469/campus-conservative-organizations-alt-right-platform-free-speech-milo-yiannopoulos-charlottesville-terrorist-attack
And as far as your contention that Democrats are the only ones responsible for bringing us to a new level: No. Just no. Take the push that Republicans are making on freedom of speech (by giving a platform to hate speech) coincided with the right to bear arms. Do you want to know what the end result of these two pushes are? Nazis parading down the street screaming death chants while carrying assault rifles. We got to see that last week! Also, a thing we got to see last week that was lost in the noise… A group of around ten dumbasses carrying ASSAULT RIFLES to the CITY COUNCIL meeting in San Antonio Texas. They wanted to oppose the removal of a confederate statue! So they brought ASSAULT RIFLES to a CITY COUNCIL meeting!
That is a NEW. FREAKING. LEVEL.
Are you kidding? The Republican party is espousing a philosophy so far right that Eisenhower would have been a Democrat. It used to be that behind the rhetoric, politicians on both sides of the aisle knew how to work together. Government relies on the art of compromise, of which the ideologues have shown they are incapable. Fortunately, we are beginning to see an inkling of bipartisan collaboration although I don’t see any indication that Trump will support that effort.
I might agree with you if you substituted “liberal and conservative talking heads” for “Democrats and Republicans.” The attack-dog approach is alive and well on rightwing radio & the news-analysis TV channels. To me, that points more to media: the undermining of investigative journalism in favor of sensationalism, the ability of billionaire corporatists to buy up media outlets, etc. Rabid speculation as to Trump’s motives is typical of comment-thread venting, not “Democrats.”
But if you use CSPAN to watch what goes on in House & Senate, there is a considerable amount of reasoned, informed, insightful dialog on a regular basis. My own congressman, Rep Leonard Lance– even tho I disagree w/ many of his positions– fully explains his viewpoint to his constituents, listens to them thro town-halls & community conf calls, draws the line at party positions which harm them, speaks respectfully to all.
The Bork hearings were not a turning point where Democrats triggered 35 yrs of increasingly partisan speech. What was triggered was not “3-ring circus”-style justice conf hearings, it was hearings where nominees keep mum about their judicial viewpoint. Which can be gleaned regardless from their rulings history. Bork’s extremist, outlier positions were well-established in his opinions and other writing. But much of what you saw in the Bork conf hearings was fallout from his Watergate decision to obstruct justice by firing Archibald Cox– then doubling down by staying on as Solicitor General. Even Nixon demurred nominating him to SC, well aware of the firestorm it would provoke; Reagan chose to do so despite being fully forewarned.
“Do not meet their violence with violence, as that is the confrontation they hope for.”
I do not agree with this. If they come with clubs, assault rifles, kevlar vests and chant slogans and/or threats, once they strike first and hurt or kill someone, fight back until none of them are left. No mercy.
It doesn’t matter if Fake President Trump Tweets that the opposition to hate and racism struck first and it was just another one of his lies.
The racists/haters might hope that the opposition will respond to their violence with violence, but they are not counting on being eliminated.These inhuman monsters live to bully and strike fear in the hearts of others, and most of them have no idea what it is like to come up against a force that has no fear and is quietly willing to turn them into a target range.
President Teddy Roosevelt said, “Speak softly, and carry a big stick.”
If they come with clubs, we come with assault guns. If they come with assault rifles, we come with mini-guns that fire 6,000 rounds a minute. If they come with miniguns, we come with tanks and stealth drones that carry air-to-ground missiles.
There is a lot of research that says you are wrong about that Lloyd. Non violence is more effective mainly because it attracts more people from diverse perspectives to your side. And, as a practical matter, don’t you think their side has more weapons?
Their side might have more weapons per person, but we outnumber them by a huge margin, and I don’t care what the “research” says. If you can settle an issue without violence go for it, but it is too late for that with the Kluckers (KKK), Nazis, and other extreme racist groups. Their history goes back more than a century. They have hanged thousands of innocents to trees, bombed churches and temples, murdered millions in concentration camps, slaughtered entire towns/communities killing children to the elders etc.
The only way to stop these people is by overwhelming force. What happened in Boston recently is an example of how to win one battle the peaceful way. If the counter-protestors turn out in those numbers in every city where the Kluckers and Nazis attempt to spew their hate, they might get the message and back off.
In fact, if the numbers that turned out in Boston repeats in city after city, the GOP might actually get off their corrupt rear ends and stand up to Trump.
New Post-ABC poll: 56% disapprove of how Trump responded to Charlottesville violence
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Poll: 56% disapprove of how Trump responded to Charlottesville violence
Twice as many Americans disapprove than approve of President Trump’s response to the deadly Charlottesville protests led by white supremacists that ignited widespread political backlash against the White House, though a majority of Republicans offer at least tepid support in a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
Trump’s handling of the racially charged clashes at the Unite the Right rally Aug. 12 erupted into a major flashpoint in his administration and earned him rebukes from Congress members, military leaders and major business executives. The president equivocated in denouncing the hate groups and cast blame on “both sides” for the deadly violence, prompting criticism that he was fanning racial tensions.
Full story: http://wapo.st/2ilUHNS
Complete results and methodology: http://wapo.st/2vXA65H
John Oliver – Condemning Trump
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What would (do) I do if (when) I have Nazi students in my class? I listen to them. I accept them and show openly I care about them. And then I teach them. I think there’s something in there that’s applicable on a wider scale.
Caveat: I do not let their hate take over the class.