Swastikas on his guns

[malaise]

Thanks DeathSantis, thanks Slobby, thanks ReTHUGs.
He wanted to kill black people.
Early 20s white male.

[onecaliberal]

1. Trump is responsible.

[Attilatheblond]

2. He is not alone in the guilt n/t

[onecaliberal]

3. Agreed.

[dchill]

11. He's at the head of the line, though.

[Jerry2144]

4. I blame US Grant and those who did the reconstruction

They failed to wipe out the scourge that is the Confederacy. They just kept metastasizing and mutating. It’s unfortunate that cancer runs too deeply in this nation

[malaise]

7. You may well be right

[sir pball]

12. Most of the blame lies with my many-times-great-granduncle, Morrison Waite.

He was the Chief Justice who authored the Cruikshank opinion, which effectively ended Reconstruction by ruling that the Bill of Rights, explicitly including the 1st, 2nd, and 14th Amendments, was only applicable to the Federal government - not States or individuals. It threw out the convictions of the perpetrators of the Colfax Massacre and left the Southern States free to decline any further prosecution of hate crimes. And it was held as precedent for over a century – oddly enough, it was the 2010 McDonald gun rights decision that finally neutered it.

A real low point in American history and a huge black mark on my family history.

[orthoclad]

15. It was Hayes who

ended Reconstruction. I mention this, with link, in #14.

I suppose Grant et al could have pursued it harder, but those contested electoral votes that led to the Hayes compromise of 1877 were the end. Gee, sounds familiar.

Goes to show: bipartisanship with evil doesn't work.

[moondust]

16. Compromise of 1877: The End of Reconstruction

The Compromise of 1877 was an informal agreement between southern Democrats and allies of the Republican Rutherford Hayes to settle the result of the 1876 presidential election and marked the end of the Reconstruction era.
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The Democrats agreed not to block Hayes’ victory on the condition that Republicans withdraw all federal troops from the South, thus consolidating Democratic control over the region. As a result of the so-called Compromise of 1877 (or Compromise of 1876), Florida, Louisiana and South Carolina became Democratic once again, effectively bringing an end to the Reconstruction era.
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The Compromise of 1877 effectively ended the Reconstruction era. Southern Democrats’ promises to protect the civil and political rights of Black people were not kept, and the end of federal interference in southern affairs led to widespread disenfranchisement of Black voters.
~
https://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/compromise-of-1877#compromise-of-1877-the-end-of-reconstruction

Without federal troops to stop them, southern Democrats (today known as Republicans) were basically free to keep "metastasizing and mutating." Unlike Germany which was occupied by Allied troops for more than 40 years after WWII in order to prevent any "metastasizing and mutating" of Nazism there.

[orthoclad]

22. Hitler studied US racial policies and laws.

[moondust]

23. U.S. eugenics was spread to Germany

After the eugenics movement was well established in the United States, it spread to Germany.

[orthoclad]

24. And here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_eugenics

also:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/11/what-america-taught-the-nazis/540630/
"What America Taught the Nazis
In the 1930s, the Germans were fascinated by the global leader in codified racism—the United States."

[Jerry2144]

29. This is an example of why this site is great

We learn stuff every day. And the people who are more knowledgeable share their info without being condescending. All Y'all're great

[uponit7771]

32. +1

[PrincessMorgan]

5. Under attack

THEY ATTACKED WOMEN WITH MISOGYNY THEY ATTACKED BLACK HISTORY BLACK EDUCATION AND CIVIL RIGHTS THEY ATTACK CHILDREN THEY ATTACK OUR GAY COMMUNITY THEY ATTACK ALL OF US. WHEN WILL RIGHT WING EXTREMISTS BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE WHEN WILL DEMOCRATS WAKE UP AND RUN ON THIS IN 2024. REPUBLICANS AND GOP INSPIRED ATTACKS AGAINST US. THIS IS NOT A DRILL. ITS OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN. WHEN WILL THE USA LEARN.

[malaise]

8. So sad and yet so accurate

What the hell did we do to be so hated by these monsters who enslaved our ancestors.

Welcome to DU PrincessMorgan

[Chainfire]

6. He only knows what he was taught. Rightwing family values; making America great again...

[malaise]

9. When I heard someone at the press conference say his parents didn't want them in theirmhome

I did ask myself who taught him all this hatred

[Maru Kitteh]

10. Not always. The sheriff made it clear shooter's parents did NOT want guns in their house.

I won't blame the parents until/unless I hear more about them that shows them worthy of blame. There are bad apples that will turn around a poison what was a perfectly good tree.

[malaise]

13. Valid point

We’ll see

[orthoclad]

14. The South lost the fighting, but

won the Reconstruction.

The election of 1876 was disputed. More problems with the damned electoral college. The eventual winner, the Republican Hayes, took power through a compromise in 1877 which ended Reconstruction.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconstruction_era

Dixie's been fighting guerilla war since then: not in the mountains as Lee feared and surrendered rather than put his men through it, but in statehouses, banks, jail slave labor, local politics, and nighttime terror and lynchings. Jim Crow laws continued Dixie power, which has metastasized under Trump to what I call the Covfeferacy.

[malaise]

17. I need to read a lot more on Reconstruction

Thanks for this

[orthoclad]

19. I think we all should study that period more.

There were legally-elected Black local governments that were thrown out by mob violence. History commonly doesn't cover this much. Maybe it deserves more study than battles.

[Collimator]

25. Just a thought about how Reconstruction is deconstructed. . .

. . . In the minds of grievance-focused White people.

Forgive my lack of specifics, but I have a vague memory of reading an article back at the start of this recent horrible chapter in our history. It was either before or shortly after the 2016 election. The author wrote about an otherwise sweet young man in the class that he taught who supported Trump.

The author wanted to understand the source of the young man's sense of disaffection with his place in current society and with the government, etc., etc. The young man gave it some thought before surmising that it all went back to Reconstruction. In his mind, that's when things stared to go wrong for his people.

Now, I don't know that much about Reconstruction myself, but as a White person, I've been around my share of relatives who like to talk about how slavery was over a century ago, and Blacks need to get over it and start taking care of themselves. . . you know the kind of crap ideas people expound upon. But, hey, distressed, downtrodden White folk who are being overlooked or ignored or put upon by the government can legitmately claim that Reconstruction started a chain-reaction that echoed through the generations to bring them to their sad, sorry status as the real victims of society.

So let's all remember, slavery wasn't that bad and Blacks need to just move on, already. But Reconstruction was hell on earth and White people have every right to fester in their resentment.

X 1000

[malaise]

28. Thanks for this

[ShazzieB]

40. Me, too.

I knew I needed to become more familiar with it, but this discussion is making me realize I knew even less than I thought.

[WarGamer]

35. Don't blame it all on the South...

My former employer, a rather large BioPharma...

has offices all around the US and the WORLD...

I've been all over and few spots have matched the ferocity of the racism of the NorthEast,

I had lunch with a black co-worker who had transferred from NC to Boston and the topic came up and I'll never forget his response.

In the South, white people have been working alongside black people for decades. A factory floor might be half black and half white. Up here in the NE, things are more segregated. And in the South, racist people lead with their racism... they're obvious. In the NE, they'll smile at you at you and in front of their friends call you a "stupid F-- n*".

This was back in the 00's... might be better now?

[orthoclad]

37. Racism isn't just in the South, but

that was where the plantation economy grew. The dollars were behind Jim Crow. It's all about stolen labor (and the stolen lives of the laborers). A lot of Northern fortunes were made from slave labor, just not as directly.

I remember South Boston and school busing in the 70s. That was ugly.

This is why I call the current manifestation the Covfeferacy. It's not just whistling Dixie.

[WarGamer]

38. quite good summary, tyvm

[malaise]

39. Yep

The truth

[William769]

18. What a scumbag just like the ones you mentioned.

[Mosby]

20. What is this about?

Who had swastikas on his gun?

[Old Crank]

21. Like to hear also

[Takket]

26. the Jacksonville terrorist

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100218223564

[Initech]

27. Fox News and AM radio created a perpetual hate machine.

[Blue Owl]

33. +1

Official sources/outlets of the NRA

[MorbidButterflyTat]

36. Who

laundered Russian rubles to Republican assholes.

So much filth and corruption, it's difficult to keep track.

[Kid Berwyn]

30. Raised to hate.

While this crazy madman's evil points to bad parenting, we need remember it does take a village to raise a child.

Woe to those who fill the village with hate.

[malaise]

31. +1.000

The truth although in rare cases there are children literally born evil

[twodogsbarking]

34. Fuck.