FFS! WAKE UP!
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So many more.
In Charlottesville. Heather Heyer was murdered as tRumps base, white nationalists marched the streets screaming "Jews Will Not Replace Us".
Of course Jews are white but that is not important to tRumpers White Nationalists. They are not the right kind of white.
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Nor the women folk.. They hate women.
Take it a step further...Jesus was a woman and the immaculate conception finally makes sense. 
This administration is investigating domestic terrorism after 4 years of TFG encouraging more of it.
Jews come in diverse types, even Middle Eastern and Ethiopian. Jews are not trying to replace anyone. Replacement theory is nonsensical yet Tucker the MFer Carlson is promoting it right now on his show. He's saying Dems are trying to replace Americans with foreigners somewhat like what his ancestors did to the Native Americans.
Tiki Nazis are the whitest, aren’t they? Just so adorbs with their sweat and angry chanting!
I bet employers were just sooo eager to hire the ones who got fired after the violence in Charlottesville.
Of course, fact is my next Big Mac would be my first.
You brought up objections to two points, and I wanted to address those.
First, you state that white supremacy is an idea and as such, because of the First Amendment right to free speech, we cannot simply stamp it out. True. My wording on that one was a bit imperfect. I was once arguing the same point with a dear friend. It went something like this:
Me: You cannot legislate an end to racism.
D: Sure you can!
Me: (silence at first, then...) How?
D: Well, look at the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Before that, it was legal to give people of color 'tests' at the polling place, and they had to sit in the back of the bus, weren't served in many restaurants and hospitals, and had supposedly 'separate but equal' schools. The Civil Rights Act also made it illegal to discriminate against anyone for a job on the basis of race or ethnicity.
Okay, let's just take D's explanation and look at it critically. While it is true that many smaller companies do still practice discriminatory hiring, most don't, and in fact if you look at literature from SHRM, you will see all kinds of articles and classes about how to INCREASE racial and ethnic diversity in companies. According to economic developer friends, companies deciding where to move or expand now include access to a diverse labor force as one of their criteria.
And, I have not seen a 'Colored-only' or 'White-only' sign since I was a small child. Plus, when I ride the bus or light rail, people can and do sit where they want.
On the other hand, we have continued reports such as the black woman who was lowballed on a home appraisal, and got a white friend to stand in for her with a new appraiser with the 'white' appraisal (for the same house!) coming in over $100k higher. And, we definitely still have de facto segregation, particularly in some inner city schools. In my own state, we declared that desegregation was a done deal a few years ago, and ended busing. But it wasn't.
So, all that said, and doubtless you can come up with other examples, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 made a broad swath of us think differently over time by simply changing behavior. And I had to admit in the context of my discussion with D that he is right. To a degree, and based on evidence, to a larger degree than not.
D is a psychologist, and when we were arguing about this very point, he said that in his practice, he does not even go to feelings or even thinking to help someone who wants help change for the better. He goes for behavior. He firmly believes (and I know not all mental health people agree) that if you change the behavior, eventually the thinking will change, and finally the feelings will change.
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Now, to the second point - a new fairness doctrine. Back in the day, at the end of the Second World War, which my father fought in - he was definitely Antifa, and slogged through jungle in the prolonged action in the Pacific. He saw combat in the battle to retake New Guinea.
Well, when that was all over, the US Congress at the time had two fears: first that Americans would be propagandized by either a right-wing demagogue or a communist demagogue - because of the new Cold War. So they passed the Fairness Doctrine. Essentially, it required news stations to 1) be locally owned, 2) present at least a half hour of local and a half hour of national news, and 3) identify opinion pieces AS opinion, and present both sides fairly.
In 1971, though, Lewis Powell wrote his famous Manifesto at the request of the US Chamber of Commerce that lays out the whole right wing noise machine, as well as the oligarchic plan to take over the courts and so on. Much of that HAS happened because in 1987, Reagan allowed the old Fairness Doctrine to die. More recently, we had a series of Supreme Court rulings that make corporations people, and make dollars free speech. Just now, we had the ruling that makes it harder to identify the actual donors to political causes, and of course we all know what has been done by SCOTUS to gut the Voting Rights Act.
In short, we are going the wrong way quickly, unless you are a Powell Manifesto supporter, then things are great. But my point is that legislation does work. To a degree, and never how you really want it to, but it does work. It changes behavior, and with behavior, thinking eventually changes, and as that happens, eventually feelings change. But power never concedes anything without a fight, and legislation is one of our tools to fight that good fight.
Best wishes!
Loveya, and take care of yourself, too. 
I mean temperature wise.
Our heat broke yesterday. It sucked.
Thanks for the link. We are in for a long hot summer...this only going to escalate. 
