RE: Trump shares video where supporter yells 'white power'
Reading the headlines, I was equally as ticked off at Trump for sharing a video that showed someone yelling 'white power'. Then I watched the whole video. Context really doesn't matter anymore does it? He's still an idiot for ever sharing something of someone ever using that phrase, but here's what I expected, vs. what I saw:
Headline - Trump thanked 'great people' shown in Twitter video in which a man chants 'white power'.
Expectation:
Large group of people at some rally. Some idiot racist POS is at said rally and pumps a fist chanting 'white power'.
Reality:
Trump supporting 'Villagers' drive golf carts in parade in support of Donald Trump. Protestors of parade (including one white-savior figure wearing a BLM shirt) shouts all kinds of fun things from feet away at the parade participants, including, but not limited to :
- RACIST, RACIST, RACIST
- Where's your white hood?
- F&@K TRUMP....next cart, lean in and F&@K TRUMP....next cart, lean in and F&@K TRUMP...
- Get back in your cart A$$HOLE....OFFICER, OFFICER....(Proceeds to briefly block cart in parade)
- Dickwad
- We don't need F&@KING NAZI PIGS
- You're a NAZI
- You gonna beat me up, you gonna beat me up....you little turd, you f&@king turd
- NAZI RACIST PIG
- "WHITE TRASH" sign
- NAZI LOVERS
- Pervert
Now, after watching the full video (which seems more like a haphazard collection of B-Roll from the whole event, and not necessarily in any linear order), I have 2 options on what to glean from what happened:
A - There's a racist Trump supporter that truly believes in the idea of white supremacy, and decided this would be the place to share that view with the rest of the world.
B - Protestors where there trying to rile up these Trump supporters and goad them into yelling matches/fights/etc. After a protestor yells at one gentleman, asking after his white hood and chanting "RACIST, RACIST", he responds with "Yeah you got it...."WHITE POWER, WHITE POWER". This to me, sounds like he's employing a literary device known as 'facetiousness', in which an individual treats a serious matter with deliberately inappropriate humor.
So, deciding who is more sane from that video, I can choose a group whose most inciting comments included "nasty language", "4 more years" and an obviously facetious "white power" comment, or the "peaceful protestors".
This is the kind of thing that edges me closer and closer to actually voting for Trump in Nov (when I didn't in 2016). Can't stand the guy, but the complete lack of truth coming from the other side has my at my wits' end.
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