Riddle Me This DU?

[leftofcool]

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]

1. Bingo.

[Fresh_Start]

2. corporations will be defended no matter what but people not so much nt

nt

[brush]

3. Not a coincidence. A lot of cops are nazis and white supremacists.

All the no-hesitation shootingd of black men bears witness to that.

[dalton99a]

9. +1

[irisblue]

4. Well...

I suspect melanin accumulation in the different groups has an effect. ( or is it affect? I have a headache, help me please?)

[leftofcool]

5. Both words look about right to me.

[pangaia]

13. Effect. I always have to stop and think before I use either.

[Saviolo]

16. Two of the toughest words!

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]

29. Affect is meaningless

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]

6. The military presence is to remind Native Americans that We Defeated Them

Equally, we lack of military presence is to remind neo-Nazis that they are in command of the Republican party.

[disillusioned73]

7. I know u r being rhetorical..

the answer is within the question.. but worth pointing out

[malaise]

8. Great post

Rec

[barbtries]

10. it's called

Institutionalized Racism
Corporatism
Fascism

but primarily racism. too many police are white supremacists themselves - did they out themselves this weekend?

[SHRED]

11. Corporate power

That's why.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

12. Perhaps the cops think that Native American protesters are not likely cops.

Some of the white-supremacist neo-Nazi thugs, well some are probably cops, so let's show them some courtesy.

[yuiyoshida]

14. Its simple

The nazi are white .

[Enoki33]

15. Some people are more equal - for a host of reasons.

[usaf-vet]

17. Yes why is that.

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]

18. Because they know we don't have the political power the big corporations do, and also

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]

19. It's because the standard deferential treatment towards white people in this society...

Is automatically extended to racist white nationalists as well.

[Montauk6]

20. This is perhaps the most rhetorical question of the year thus far.

[workinclasszero]

21. Funny how that works huh?

[tblue37]

22. Ferguson was treated that way, too. nt

[SammyWinstonJack]

23. Same with OWS protesters. Or any other peaceful protesters, for that matter.

[niyad]

24. hmmmmm

[IronLionZion]

25. a combination of white privilege and deadly weapons

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]

26. maybe the *can* be found

just you are looking in the wrong place .

there were probably plenty of 'em there...

[Democrats_win]

27. Also, there are few buildings at the pipeline--only people.

It shows that capitalism is a soul-killing institution. Bad. Really BAD.

[BadgerMom]

28. K/R

Astute question.

[Honeycombe8]

30. Because a white supremacist is king? But...there were a lot of cops in Charlottesville.

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]

31. Wild guess...

institutionalized racism, along with victim blaming and class warfare?