My Response to a Charlottesville Response

Some, and I stress SOME, of this video is very good. The discussion of words over violence. Bravo for those words. That being said, this is still an inflammatory and biased video.

Perhaps the "violent leftists" (notice he only used inflammatory words about the left) did punch first, and the police did drop the ball. The things that are not being analyzed here are the sociological aspects that have created and fostered this environment. The majority mentality has been an obvious plague on this nation since it's conception. Native Americans, Chinese, Irish, Africans, Japanese, Bosnians, Muslims, Jewish, Women, LGBT, Hindus, and others have all been targeted by the majority.

A superiority complex is classified as mental illness, and a nurtured sense of superiority is merely a deep seated fear that has been putrified with toxic rhetoric, and then spewed upon the world like ignorant vomit. In my experiences, the failure is not in the first punch, but in the first use of inflammatory speech. Slurs have been created in droves by people who felt themselves superior to others, and fought tooth and nail for that false superiority. Why would one do this? Why would someone fight to keep others beneath them? It is because they are afraid. Afraid that if they stood face to face, or toe to toe with those who they feel superior over, and called them equals, they might lose face. They would become less important. Who doesn't love being king of the mountain, as it were, right?

So how do they mask this fear? They hide behind a symbol and throw stones. They wave inflammatory flags and shout toxic speech. The video in the post I'm responding to speaks of "free speech," and being able to use your words and let other people do the same. One thing he doesn't discuss very in depth is the quality of one's speech. If one is truly able to speak eloquently, racial slurs and other such discriminatory words could be avoided. Heated speech is just as infantile and hostile as throwing a punch. The first one to call names loses. That was something I learned in kindergarten too.

It is also bad form to taunt. Carrying symbols of hatred such as the Nazi flag and wearing riot gear creates a environment of hostility, and allows one to see the opposition as subhuman and unimportant. As soon as you let something go from a one on one discussion to a mob mentality, the IQ diminishes and the likelihood of an unscathed ending drops drastically. In this case, you had people who are afraid of the enemies they have created in their own heads, so they presented themselves in the most inflammatory way possible, then chose to not throw the first punch so they could paint themselves as victims.

Now touching on the police situation. I have worked as security at bars in the past. The LAST thing you do is leave two vehemently opposed parties alone to "discuss their differences." They will fight with almost undeniable certainty. Separation is the minimum requirement, even if it just takes them out of arm's reach. The law enforcement failed here. If they were indeed told to stand down, then the rot goes higher up the political tree than meets the eye. The motives of this supposed call to stand down are unclear, but let me continue.

This is not a left or right issue. Yes, communism may fail, but so does any extreme form of government, on either the left or the right. Look into the horse shoe theory. It talks about the more extreme your beliefs, the more you come to look like those who oppose you. You will lessen your ability to speak eloquently, and will be more geared toward violence. This is a problem of obsession, and not being able to see things from an opposing side. Now, I do not support supremacy, or Nazis, or Alt-Right, or any other hate group. I also don't like what is being done by extremists on the left. They have lost logic as well.

So, the man in the video talks about Siegfried (likened to the right wing protestors) being led into a trap against a late stage tiger (the left wing counter protestors). He paints Siegfried as the victim, which is a MASSIVE hole in logic. A man decides to cage up an organism that has the potential for violence and bloodshed. He proceeds to train it with whips, shaping it to his liking, just for entertainment's sake. It's no surprise he was bitten. Same with the people who waved Nazi flags and perpetuated the hatred of past and current times.

Ultimately, people died and were injured. Someone chose to go beyond excessive force and plow into protestors with a vehicle. This is obviously going to be the focusing point of Charlottesville, and it very well should be. Lives were claimed and maimed because they were afraid of the "enemy." They falsely saw themselves as superior, and acted upon the lies they were telling themselves. Yet, it is important to analyze where blame lies. I, along with a majority of the nation, lay it at the feet of the people who chose to hold a protest as if dressed for war. Those in riot gear, waving flags and words of hatred. They may not have thrown the first punch, but they were supporting ideologies that led to the deaths of 6 million people within death camps, and countless others outside of them. That's much more significant to me than throwing a punch.

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