Hate, bigotry, racism, LGBTQ

There Is No Compromise

The GOP’s embrace of white-identity extremism is complicity and self-deluded cowardice.

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There is no meeting “half-way” with rightwing extremism of white-identity politics. The GOP has embraced the alt-right ideology. The Alt-right ideology is white-identity politcs. “White-identity” politics is nothing less than white supremacy. It is nazis and skinheads and racists and bigots and xenophobes. It’s anti-LGBTQ hatred. It’s anti-woman oppression. The GOP’s agenda of cruelty is the politics of oppression. It is fascism in America realized.

“When Fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross” ~attributed to Sinclair Lewis

Let us be clear: white identity politics — i.e, white supremacists — are advocating oppression and genocide. The agenda is unreasoning, fueled by illogic and hate: If the “other” cannot be suppressed and oppressed to benefit the white race, then make war against it at home and around the world. We see in Trump’s “my African American,” the likes of Diamond and Silk, and the candidacy of Hershel Walker the kind of not-white performative personalities the GOP backs. Meanwhile, we watch in abhorrence at the…