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the fact that i felt i had outgrown such an exercise by about 8th grade we college frosh spent several class periods explaining to each other why some of us were going to be so successful in pictures while the most discerning among us figured out rather quickly why despite the fact our building was covered in virginia creeper we weren t actually attending an ivy league school the collage was our identity and our junk could be whatever we wanted it to be i m pretty sure that is where we are heading at least until driver s licenses become completely obsolete and autonomous vehicles dominate the roads we won t need a license to ride in a self driving car will we still identifications will remain relevant for the other purposes mentioned above but the farther we wade into identity fluidity the more a collage might actually be the better route for those negotiations at the casino buffet counter posted by roug at 7 43 am 0 comments sunday august 20 2017 detroit the movie shoehorned into an undeserved context because i m like that today i went to the theater and watched the movie detroit it occurred to me after watching the film that we should painstakingly drag up historically ugly incidents regardless of how they make us feel in order to remember them and learn from them the movie attempts to document one of the ugliest of the incidents that took place during the riots of that hot summer of 1967 it is one of many ugly stories contained within those several days of smoke and fire and bullets and bricks and blood but why make such a film when the producers and director and actors must have known that delving into such a project would open old wounds the 1960s we hope today are far removed from today s modern society where more or less people of different skin tones and hair textures can mix and mingle with one another without creating great tension fear and violence if that is the case and most people would say that it is then why make it would it not be better to just move along what then is to be gained i m certain people of different proud races and of different experiences could have different reactions to the film a swastika wearing hammer skin might cheer for a racist and corrupted police officer while a blm sympathizer might become ever more motivated to distrust police and call for the frying of more bacon these are fringe people in fringe movements and do not speak for a vast majority of individuals in this country i too came away with my own thoughts during that summer of 1967 i was but nine years old and had not yet entered the fourth grade northern michigan where i grew up was 180 long miles from the tendrils of smoke that trailed across a sky easily visible to fans at tiger stadium i m not certain i even have any direct memories of the 67 riots as it occurred we didn t have 24 hour news channels in those days and i m not even sure if we had a working television at that time in my life it was summer i was probably playing wiffle ball or catching crickets so all i know about it today is what i ve gathered from reading listening to other people talk about it looking at some of the blackened storefronts many years ago and now watching this movie many of the landmarks of the riots were destroyed in the riots themselves and many others such as the algiers motel itself have been removed in the time since memories fade oral history dies and soon enough only the hardened documentation remains now ratcheted up by the charlottesville incident where some nazi goons who supposedly demonstrated to protect monuments that honor heroes of the old south we have many others demanding that these same old monuments and others with much more dubious attachments to racism be relocated to museums or destroyed outright their existence and location seemingly a cause of great discomfort for those that view or visit i certainly understand this sentiment and perhaps some of this relocation only could still serve the purpose of remembrance and knowledge however i m not so certain that discomfort is altogether a bad thing here monuments themselves become a part of history nathan bedford forrest a southern general and an early member of the ku klux klan has had dozens of monuments raised in his honor over the years not to mention a few pointed white hats should they be toppled and destroyed or simply relocated to a museum that documents the civil war my opinion might not be worth a lot given my age color and ignorance but an art historian might use this occasion to say the fact that such monuments might have been erected to honor forrest as late as the 1920s or 1930s or 1940s or even 2013 could also tell us something about certain people in this country who were alive in the 1860s and afterward feeling forrest worthy of honor and why they honored him rail against these statues and monuments all you want but if every one of them is removed i don t believe one person s life will be enriched except for those perhaps who might enjoy a beautiful flower bed or park bench that occupies the space in its stead but expose us to a monument and the history of the monument and we all might learn a little bit ugly facts are still ugly and the whole story from beginning to end is still the story perhaps this could be the reason behind the making of a movie like detroit after all intentionally looking for old wounds and poking them to see if there is still associated pain and discomfort perhaps poking particularly hard to cause pain and discomfort it is a good movie but it is not a movie that makes you feel good don t destroy it watch it for what it is posted by roug at 8 17 pm 0 comments friday august 18 2017 an honest discernment of hatred the last authentic episode of hate speech that i heard in my life was screamed by a young lad with a cavernous mouth toward his mother who had had just about enough of the whole opened yap thing it was embarrassing for her the child s father for me and hopefully after several years of reflection for him how do i know it was hate it was the intent the volume the passion and i as the third party a direct witness of the event feel i am qualified to divine what the little snot was thinking at the time he expelled his snarling an hour later of course the rather volatile beast was once again settled down and interacting with those around him in a rather fragile but subdued truce perhaps it wasn t hate so much as it was immaturity and emotional trauma who is to say in today s political bump and run it has become solely for the listener to decide this is why the categorization of hate speech and hate thought and hate crimes are so dangerous to a free society not because we embrace the hate that might be behind them but because we do not want third parties to pass judgment on what might be the intent of such expression there is no doubt that we have hate speech in today s society we always have had enter the likes of charles murray ben shapiro heather macdonald robert spenser not to be confused with richard spenser who hates to his heart s content and donald trump or to today s progressives anyone who might possess a conservative position or two on any number of difficult contemporary political issues as an example there are few americans today who are more honest about their beliefs than ben shapiro i ve been reading his columns since he was an undergrad at harvard i ve been listening to his podcasts at the daily wire for well over a year his debates are reasoned and well documented as is his history he is according to some the person most often targeted by the alt right in its march toward a more regulated and homogenous society ben to his credit refuses to shut up he is no hater even though he is cynically labeled as such by others but the alt right perhaps the most pervasive spewers of hate in this country is not a group who worries overmuch about the hate speech of others it is the progressive left that uses the terms of hate as tools to wield in attempts to silence their adversaries both sides are illiberal and seek top down governments with the power to alienate and persecute those whose beliefs differ with their own while the alt right totalitarians and their bird of a feather sympathizers are properly relegated to the outmost political fringe their well armed antifa totalitarian adversaries are granted wide berth by most politicians a nearly uniform press and by an entertainment establishment too afraid to be vocationally black balled to stand up for freedom donald trump is a bumbling politician he is a woefully inept speaker his methods and tactics are ill advised his thin skin and quick temper make him an easy target for an activist press and his political adversaries regardless of which political party they might belong to he is being criticized these days and properly to some degree for his seeming reluctance to disavow the actions of the nazis in charlottesville he claims to have no sympathy for those wearing jack boots and driving vehicles into milling crowds but his early statements tried to spread the blame equally in the one area where equality is not welcome and trump is wrong about this there are those who weep at the destruction or removal of monuments to their southern heritage to my knowledge they were not the planners of this demonstration the groups behind this weekend s demonstration were dedicated not to their southern heritage so much as they were dedicated to a segregated south and a yearning to return to those times where uppity people of color sat in the back of the bus and drank from their own fountains they were a mob of uniformed and weaponized nazis and they came well prepared for a fight they also chanted anti jewish messages that i m sure left louis farrakhan beaming the counter protesters belonged in one of two categories the first group and perhaps majority were those people who showed up with no weapons other than their voices to protest against nazi hate the second group was populated by antifa anti fascist communist or anarchist thugs who showed up with axe handles mace shields helmets and facemasks they too were combatants prepared for war gasoline meet fire sadly a 32 year old paralegal as well as two law enforcement officers none belonging to either armed group lost their lives the nazis celebrated their rally s success the media castigated while a bumbling president opined all the while an empowered antifa movement every bit the totalitarian sympathizers that the nazis are was able to sneak away under a strictly enforced media blackout for future battles and greater glory the purpose of this particular rally is ultimately irrelevant because the antifa movement seeks out to attack any rally with which they disagree violent protests at berkeley in chicago in philadelphia in cincinnati in washington in portland in seattle etc prove this so whether the rally in charlottesville was called by nazi sympathizers or some obscure historical society is largely irrelevant the antifa movement will be there to engage their enemy already the nazis are petitioning for future events one of them at michigan state university my hope is that the university makes a wise decision that refuses to provide a battleground for axe handlers and mace sprayers they have no responsibility to provide a landscape for battle sadly should ben shapiro try to speak at that campus he might very well be shut down by the university for the same reason even though ben shapiro regardless of how much you love or hate him is not himself a purveyor of hate nor will he ever show up for such an event with the weapons of war universities much like the antifa movement itself care little for that important distinction when i was in elementary school there was an out building on the school s grounds it had been many years previously a one room schoolhouse the school where my dad spent several years when the larger school district was formed and the small school houses were abandoned this school the grandview school was taken from its foundation and relocated to an area behind the high school where i received all of my disappointing grades it was painted white and was called aptly the white house the white house was famous for two things first it was where all the old desks and tables and track hurdles were stored secondly it provided a portion of school ground property not visible to snoopy teachers and administrators who might want to survey the grounds for trouble as early as middle elementary school the challenge of i ll meet you behind the white house meant only one thing there was going to be a fight it was not going to be a poetry reading i was never a party in one of these fights i was however several times blessed with a good observation point when antifa protesters show up at a poetry reading or any other non violent expression of free speech the blame should be easy to discern when they show up at a nazi rally however stupid their intercession is the total blame is more difficult to cast why mr trump wants to walk that line is hard for me to fathom perhaps it is simply too difficult to explain in one minute sound bites or while arguing with a gaggle of reporters some topics cannot be set aside wish wispy arguments regardless of how honestly they are spoken perhaps mr trump should spend more time making certain his words are appropriately vetted before he spouts them perhaps too he should stop being so steadfast in his dedication to self how hard could it be really for president trump to call out the evil that is nazi their message is neither spontaneous nor screamed by a child it is a thought out political stance based on hatred too how difficult could it be for the media to accept that communist sympathizers and anarchists are just as evil why do they get a pass this is how we arrive at a narrative ill prepared statements issued by a leader trying his best to toe the line and a cacophony of reporters trying their best to take down a bumbling leader regardless of his intent or beliefs we should demand better from both i know we deserve better posted by roug at 9 24 am 0 comments monday august 14 2017 a christian comments on the country s fraying fabric after watching another open incident of murderous idiocy display itself in charlottesville this weekend i have a few things to say but first things first for a little context i am a christian and therefore believe that violence for the sake of violence is wrong i care not who perpetuates it i am not a pacifist so i believe there are times when violence might be called for but having grown up in the mennonite tradition i find nearly all forms of violence in nearly all contexts to be wanting for justification so who to blame for the latest carnage the roots of this calamity lie in progressivism in its many forms progressivism has a large umbrella that casts a shadow over many movements and two of these movements are marxism communism and national socialism 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