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Why is it that when neo-Nazis march with guns, bats, and rally to promote violence and hatred, no cops can be found but when Native Americans rally with sage and prayers, tanks, guns, the National Guard, police, thugs and water hoses are brought out immediately?
dalton99a
(81,656 posts)Fresh_Start
(11,330 posts)nt
brush
(53,949 posts)All the no-hesitation shootingd of black men bears witness to that.
irisblue
(33,041 posts)I suspect melanin accumulation in the different groups has an effect. ( or is it affect? I have a headache, help me please?)
leftofcool
(19,460 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)Saviolo
(3,284 posts)If it's going to affect you, it will have an effect. Your face can have a neutral affect, but you can still effect change.
sab390
(185 posts)An affectation is characteric of no effect. A flair or embellishment that does nothing. A drag queens dress is an affectation, a brown shirt has an effect.
Orrex
(63,247 posts)Equally, we lack of military presence is to remind neo-Nazis that they are in command of the Republican party.
disillusioned73
(2,872 posts)the answer is within the question.. but worth pointing out
malaise
(269,239 posts)Rec
barbtries
(28,816 posts)Institutionalized Racism
Corporatism
Fascism
but primarily racism. too many police are white supremacists themselves - did they out themselves this weekend?
SHRED
(28,136 posts)That's why.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,375 posts)Some of the white-supremacist neo-Nazi thugs, well some are probably cops, so let's show them some courtesy.
yuiyoshida
(41,868 posts)The nazi are white .
Enoki33
(1,589 posts)usaf-vet
(6,231 posts)Maybe one reason is during the recent confrontation over the XL pipeline the corporations that own and are building the pipeline paid to bring in private security and law enforcement officers from other states.
Native Americans are simple trying to protect their treaty rights and their tribal lands.
Corporations don't care who's rights and property get destroyed and polluted as long as they get to make more money.
catbyte
(34,502 posts)I think--especially with this POSUS & his supporters--they're pissed off they didn't finish us off in the 1800's. An Ojibwe.
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)Is automatically extended to racist white nationalists as well.
Montauk6
(8,081 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)tblue37
(65,502 posts)SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)niyad
(113,701 posts)IronLionZion
(45,600 posts)plus these types of assholes have killed cops before
The Charlottesville police are claiming that there were too many nazis with too many weapons for the police to handle. The Dem governor had to call out the national guard and state police
The Mouth
(3,168 posts)just you are looking in the wrong place .
there were probably plenty of 'em there...
Democrats_win
(6,539 posts)It shows that capitalism is a soul-killing institution. Bad. Really BAD.
BadgerMom
(2,771 posts)Astute question.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)It's just that there were so many people over a broad area to cover. There were the helicopters, too. 2 officers were killed when their helicopter went down.
I read (though it may not be true) that they had been told to go lenient, try to guard and quarintine things, but not to engage in physical contact, if it could be avoided. Something like that. I guess they didn't want it to turn into a "police beat up people again!" thing.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,771 posts)institutionalized racism, along with victim blaming and class warfare?