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CLASHES BETWEEN WHITE supremacist groups and those protesting against them have taken place during a rise in the number of US hate groups in the past two years.
At the weekend, groups including the Ku Klux Klan neo-Nazis marched through a Virginia college campus chanting “we will not be replaced” and holding flags bearing swastikas.
During counter protests on Saturday, a car ran into the crowd and killed 32-year-old Heather Heyer. Although President Donald Trump criticised the violence, he made no mention of racism until this evening.
According to figures from the Southern Poverty Law Center, there were 917 active hate groups in the US in 2016, compared to 892 in 2015 and 784 in 2014.
The rise comes after a dramatic drop in their number between 2011 and 2014.
Barack Obama’s presidency ran from 2009 to January 2017; it was during his presidency that unfair treatment by the police towards the black community was highlighted.
The past few years have brought the rise of Isis, or the so-called Islamic State, due to the vacuum left behind after the withdrawal of western troops from Iraq and Afghanistan.
Isis has claimed responsibility for a series of terrorist attacks across Europe and the Middle East in those years, leading to a rise in hate crimes against Muslims.
During his campaign for the 2016 election, Donald Trump promised to build a wall along the US border with Mexico and put a Muslim ban in place, which gave him a bump in the polls.
Trump’s win based on anti-immigration policies, among others which he campaigned on, is often used as proof of deep-rooted divisions that exist in the US.
The same figures from the Southern Poverty Law Center show the divide between those active hate groups.
According to the figures, over 190 of the 917 hate groups in the US last year were black separatist groups, which seek separate economic and societal institutions for African-Americans, and usually oppose interracial couples.
The second most common hate group was the Ku Klux Klan at 130 groups.
Four groups are around the third most common hate group in the US: anti-Muslim, general hate, white nationalist and neo-Nazi, with around 100 groups of each of them across the US in 2016.
Today, Donald Trump publicly condemned hatred, “evil” racism and bigotry in all its forms in a scripted speech which responded to the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia.
We condemn in the strongest possible terms, this egregious display of hatred and bigotry… Violence has no place in America.
“No matter the colour of our skin we all salute the same great flag and we are made by the same Almighty god,” he said.
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Why would we give two hoots?
@Wishywashy: The government is attempting to undermine the cause of the protests by linking them to outside agitators. It’s not true of course.
The Serb government eased the lockdown before the June 21st election in order to get a big turn out and win votes, after the votes were counted they re-imposed the knockdown after announcing a spike in COVID-19 cases. The protestors upset at this, are a mix of people upset at the bent election and conspiracy minded who think COVID dies not exist or was exaggerated as a political tool to stifle descent.
The reason why we should care is that there is now a rapidly worsening outbreak of COVID in Serbia, the government capitulated to the protestors demands, ended the lockdown a 2nd time, so Serbia is now faced with a worsening mishandled outbreak they cannot control. That outbreak could force border closures and cause problems/outbreaks elsewhere in Europe.
Mr Bald of the Bald and Bankrupt YouTube channel caught Coronavirus in Serbia and was in hospital for a month and the ICU for a week.
Here’s his video: https://youtu.be/clscC120ZQM
He didn’t realise how ill he was and was taken to hospital in taxi by a concerned friend. They found his oxygen levels were in “the low 70s”. He recons the low oxygen levels affected his judgment and that’s why he didn’t realise he was dying.
Also, Serbia was caught covering up the severity of the outbreak.
There was an election on June 21, some protestors were upset about the bent election, think the corrupt government eased the lockdown in order to win votes. There’s now a second wave of infections, that’s why the lockdown was re-imposed, or maybe the first never ended, or maybe it’s to stifle protests. One of the leaders of the protest was a 5G conspiracy theorist, but there’s various reasons why people were protesting.
@David Jordan: he is brilliant to watch !! Especially his south American travels
@Maalouf: you might want to do a bit of background research on him, you will think twice about watching his videos.
@David Jordan: oh a communist sympathizer who worked for MI5 probably still does by the look of his videos. Reserch who you watch
@Tiktok: Sources please. Have been following him for a good while and this is the first I’ve heard of that
@Alex Nevin: Used enjoys his videos until I found out he’s a d!rty little git
@Hup Abù: eh hem..I quite enjoyed his videos until I learned he’s a d!try little git
@Alex Nevin: he used to post under a pseudonym in a sex tourist forum and people have corroborated events he mentions in the pseudonym account with facts known about his life (where he has been, an unfounded rape accusation, ex wife from Belarus, tips for learning Russian). He posted despicable stories and totally denigrated all of the people he pretends to be friends with. https://www.reddit.com/r/BaldAndBaldrDossier/comments/cz1sz4/the_x_files_of_bald_bankrupt_a_brief_summary_and/?utm_source=amp&utm_medium=&utm_content=post_body
@David Jordan: and that is hilarious because he was a denier until he got it
Sure or government used the pandemic to form a government nobody voted for!
@Aaron Jones: you got precisely what you voted for. No overall control….
@ℝ: yeah I never voted for mehole or Leotard!
@Aaron Jones: 76% didn’t vote for Mary Who either but sure that’s democracy for ye.
@GrumpyAulFella: I never voted for Mary Lou!
@GrumpyAulFella: Why can’t people understand how our voting system works!? What you mean to say is 76% didn’t give SF their no1 vote.
Probably the ringleader and a spy.
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They should protest at the Chinese embassy
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