About three months before he was elected President (and on the third anniversary of the Charlotteville, VA white supremacist rally), Joe Biden conveyed the following:
Three years ago today, the world watched in horror as neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and far-right extremists with torches in hand descended on Charlottesville, Virginia, spewing the same anti-Semitic bile that was heard in Hitler’s Germany in the 1930s. It was a moment of testing for our country, and a wake-up call to the fact that hate never dies — it only hides. And when our leaders give it oxygen, it can come roaring back to life.
What happened next is seared in all our memories — a violent clash between the white nationalists and those who came together to stand against hate. Tragically, a brave young woman lost her life.
And then our president claimed that there were “very fine people on both sides.” Donald Trump had the audacity to assign moral equivalence between those spreading hate and those who stood against it.
I knew then that we were in a battle for the soul of this nation. And I knew then that I could not stand by and let Donald Trump destroy the core values of this nation. Now, three years later, we can see even more clearly that everything that has made America, America, is at stake.
Despite our imperfections as a nation, the American people have never given up or walked away from the founding ideals of our nation: that everyone is entitled to be treated equally and with dignity and respect. That is who we are. And together, we are far more powerful than the hatred we saw on that dark day three years ago, and in so many acts of hatred and violence since.
Perhaps the person who occupies the Oval Office today needs to read this statement in the light of there having been daily Charlottesville-like events over the past half year.
As despicable as the 2017 Charlottesville white supremacist rally was, peoples' ability to perform normal everyday tasks (i.e. student and faculty at Columbia University attending class) were not in danger.
Reporter: "Do you condemn the anti-Semitic protests on college campuses?"
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) April 22, 2024
Biden: “I condemn the antisemitic protests. That’s why I have set up a program to deal with that. I also condemn those who don't understand what's going on with the Palestinians."
Reporter: "Should the… pic.twitter.com/bW5j9Nde0v
Kinda of the same vibe as "fine people on both sides," no?
Conservative commentator Erick Erickson throws down a challenge to Biden.
You know as well as I that Biden absolutely will not do this simply because it would cost him a key swing state like Michigan where the heavily Muslim city of Dearborn is threatening to sit it out this November.
As Seth Mandel at Commentary points out, the white supremacists and the Jew-hating progs are basically two sides of the same coin.
“Jews will not replace us” was the favored chant in Charlottesville. At the progressive campus rallies and beyond, “From the river to the sea, Palestine is Arab” has made quite the comeback. In the past, the second half of that line was often “Palestine will be free,” a slightly more politically savvy version of the slogan that calls for the murder and enslavement of all Jews in the land of Israel. “Palestine is Arab” is even more openly violent than “Jews will not replace us,” a white nationalist chant that seeks to hide its bloodlust behind anti-immigration euphemisms. (It does not hide it well; a man radicalized by these theories massacred Jews at a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018.)
“From the river to the sea, Palestine is Arab” establishes as its baseline a Nazi-like racial hierarchy. What that means is that regardless of political or governmental structures and constitutions, that racial hierarchy is baked into society: Jews would be treated this way even if they no longer had a state, just as they were treated this way in the 20th century before Israeli sovereignty was established. Put simply, ethnic cleansing of the Jews would be the goal in a one-state solution as well.
Because this racial hierarchy is fundamental to its proponents’ worldview, opposition to coexistence with Jews is global. The skinheads in Charlottesville weren’t deterred from their version of this ideology just because they live outside of Germany. Similarly, those who chant “Palestine is Arab” subscribe to this racial hierarchy wherever they are. That this chant was delivered outside the White House, for example, is not a protest of Israeli policy but rather a challenge to the foundational ideas and values of the United States.
Although the expression of this worldview isn’t limited to college campuses, those campuses are the main reason we are now witnessing three Charlottesvilles a day. After all, it means students are paying attention in class.
Yup. These profs are literally telling us who they are at this point (WARNING: an f-bomb or two):
🚨 HAPPENING NOW: Teacher’s Rant Promotes Anarchy.
— Shirion Collective (@ShirionOrg) April 22, 2024
⚠️ “Don’t work, don’t go to class, don’t research. Act out your Marxist and post-colonial ideas!”
📢 This is out of control.
Is there just complete lawlessness at @Columbia?
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I honestly don't know if America can be salvaged at this point.
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