Box likes poking our buttons.
He's well aware of the problems of racism and all it entails.
I think, here, he's mainly arguing that locals should work it out. That's why he's bringing up outsiders coming in and causing trouble. He's not defending the statues, he's saying outsiders (pro or anti) have no business coming in and rioting and getting people killed.
I think that's a far too narrow view of what's happening there, and elsewhere, myself. UVa is a nationally (and internationally) known university. It has an important history (founded by our 3rd President). The town of Charlottesville is a melting pot with students and families from all over the world, and an island of sanity in that part of Virginia.
Americans have the right to express their views about what's going on in this country, to petition their governments, to freely associate, and all the rest. "Outside agitators" are often an important first step in productive change and progress. The anti-Nazi protesters were a reflection of some of the best of America. And seeing neo-Nazis out in public, letting their hate out, is occasionally necessary so that we can see what they're really like and see the importance of fighting them.
But more than having a right, we have an obligation to confront them.
A caller made the point on "1A" on NPR yesterday that Henry Ford wrote screeds for years about all kinds of horrible things that The International Jew caused and collected them into books.
Horrifying.
We, as Americans, have a duty to fight this stuff - wherever it is in our country.
My $0.02.
Cheers,
Scott.
I think, here, he's mainly arguing that locals should work it out. That's why he's bringing up outsiders coming in and causing trouble. He's not defending the statues, he's saying outsiders (pro or anti) have no business coming in and rioting and getting people killed.
I think that's a far too narrow view of what's happening there, and elsewhere, myself. UVa is a nationally (and internationally) known university. It has an important history (founded by our 3rd President). The town of Charlottesville is a melting pot with students and families from all over the world, and an island of sanity in that part of Virginia.
Americans have the right to express their views about what's going on in this country, to petition their governments, to freely associate, and all the rest. "Outside agitators" are often an important first step in productive change and progress. The anti-Nazi protesters were a reflection of some of the best of America. And seeing neo-Nazis out in public, letting their hate out, is occasionally necessary so that we can see what they're really like and see the importance of fighting them.
But more than having a right, we have an obligation to confront them.
A caller made the point on "1A" on NPR yesterday that Henry Ford wrote screeds for years about all kinds of horrible things that The International Jew caused and collected them into books.
Influence on Nazi Anti-Semitism[edit]
Ford's International Jew was translated into German in 1922 and was cited as an influence by Baldur von Schirach, one of the Nazis' leaders, who stated "I read it and became anti-Semitic. In those days this book made such a deep impression on my friends and myself because we saw in Henry Ford the representative of success, also the exponent of a progressive social policy. In the poverty-stricken and wretched Germany of the time, youth looked toward America, and apart from the great benefactor, Herbert Hoover, it was Henry Ford who to us represented America."[6] Ford is the only American mentioned in Hitler's Mein Kampf, but is only mentioned once in one sentence, where Hitler writes "Every year makes them [American Jews] more and more the controlling masters of the producers in a nation of one hundred and twenty millions; only a single great man, Ford, to their fury still maintains full independence."
Horrifying.
We, as Americans, have a duty to fight this stuff - wherever it is in our country.
My $0.02.
Cheers,
Scott.