She sanctimoniously condemned David Duke as a “racist” former KKK leader.I condemn David Duke as well. And I don’t care if someone thinks I’m being sanctimonious.
(Apparently she only likes Democrat KKK recruiters who “mentor” her.)Obviously he’s referring to Sen. Robert Byrd. Not to defend Byrd and his politics, his voting record, his pork barrel spending, etc., but let’s attempt to be honest. Byrd left the KKK in the 1950’s and whether it was heartfelt or not, whether he ever let go of all his past feelings on race, he apologized numerous times for his earlier (when he was in his early 20’s) involvement with the KKK. While he voted against the 1964 Civil Rights Act, he later supported (for better or worse) other civil rights legislation.
Duke on the other hand left the Klan in 1980 because he disliked its associations with violence and could not stop the members of other Klan chapters from doing "stupid or violent things" but then went on to found the National Association for the Advancement of White People (NAAWP), what some have called the KKK with a better PR department and is currently an active user on Stormfront as well as being a holocaust denier, and as recently as 2003 wrote a book titled “Jewish Supremacism”.
Byrd disavowed the KKK and what they stand for. Duke just had a disagreement with the KKK over their methods, not their ideology. So it is really not an apples to apples comparison.
I encourage conservatives, the alt-right, and all decent people to unite. And where you disagree, debate but do not hate one another.For the most part, the alt-right hates conservatives.
As I understand, the alt-right want America and our citizens put first — nationalism over globalism and mass immigration. They mock political correctness and the farcical notion of “racism.” And they fight back against the attack on whites and men.There is some of that with those who self-identify as alt-right. Part of it is even a somewhat understandable reaction/counter-reaction to political correctness and a multi-culturalism (racism against whites) that paints all whites, especially white males as “evil”. But while one can be against this and mock it and be for American interests and against unfettered mass immigration, one does not have to go to the extreme of going full on “Nationalist”, espousing racism and embracing the anti-Semitism that all too many on the alt-right seem to have embraced.
From another thread:
“A few may be trolls, some may be trying to be satirical or are just trying to protest against political correctness thinking they are being funny about it, but a lot of them, most of them from what I’ve seen (on Twitter and on 4Chan) are openly Neo-Nazi, are White Supremacists and are virulently anti-Semitic and a lot of them are damned scary.”
http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,222928.msg1038767.html#msg1038767The alt-right (aka: the skinheads, klansmen, neo-Nazis, and white supremacists) are an unmitigated evil.
To accept them is to consciously choose the worst of evils.
It is to betray the values instilled by one's family and faith.
And when life is over, how will you answer for it?
Anyone who unites with the alt right is united against me.
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