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ShazamIam

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1. I lived in the South for 12 years, Elie says: "You just need a clear-eyed understanding of what

Reply to tenderfoot (Original post)

Wed Nov 10, 2021, 02:29 PM

Nov 2021

white people are capable of in defense of their notion of supremacy."

Says it all about the entire Republican political party and they feel that way about the entire working (now called middle) class and laboring class, (now mostly immigrant) and therefore invisible and not to be considered.

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Elie Mystal: I Hope Everyone Is Prepared for Kyle Rittenhouse to Go Free [View all] tenderfoot Nov 2021 OP

I lived in the South for 12 years, Elie says: "You just need a clear-eyed understanding of what ShazamIam Nov 2021 #1

When I heard the prosecution couldn't call the victims, "victims" TheRealNorth Nov 2021 #2

Yup... get ready!! InAbLuEsTaTe Nov 2021 #3

Yup, HUGE RED FLAG........couldn't call them victims indeed. a kennedy Nov 2021 #4

I am afraid you are correct...he will be made into some bizarre "poster boy" for the far right ashredux Nov 2021 #5

He's the next George Zimmerman. n/t Mr.Bill Nov 2021 #16

I'd say he was already there. BobTheSubgenius Nov 2021 #18

This message was self-deleted by its author Initech Nov 2021 #6

I don't want any marches/protests or right wing provocateur rioting tenderfoot Nov 2021 #8

Yeah probably better not to give them what they want. It would only justify this atrocity further. Initech Nov 2021 #21

I don't agree with that no riots. RittenHouse is a pos. rockfordfile Nov 2021 #9

How would that make anything better ? JI7 Nov 2021 #10

It wouldn't. Initech Nov 2021 #17

It makes me fearful BillyBobBrilliant Nov 2021 #7

You and me both!! InAbLuEsTaTe Nov 2021 #12

A lot of white people are sympathetic to him JI7 Nov 2021 #11

There's several on this site as well. tenderfoot Nov 2021 #15

His acquittal will mean that it's okay to purposely go looking for trouble and shoot demonstrators hadEnuf Nov 2021 #13

It's ALL white peoples Chille Nov 2021 #14

Someone is have fun with this. tenderfoot Nov 2021 #22

If he and / or the murders of Arbery trial are found not guilty--it is further evidence Evergreen Emerald Nov 2021 #19

Sounds about right tenderfoot Nov 2021 #20

It sounds like the judge has his thumb on the scale FakeNoose Nov 2021 #23