Yes, unlike Ferguson and Baltimore, Charleston is handling this correctly.
It does appear we are missing the common thread between almost all of these mass murders...psychotropic prescription drugs. I don't why that isn't being given any serious attention.
Hmmm...white conservative terrorist or white supremacist terrorist...I'll let you work out the semantics. If it makes you feel better, he probably didn't adhere to any mainstream conservative ideology. I'm also guessing he wasn't a card-carrying democrat either. Just a common day, far-right-racist-nazi-terrorist-mass-murderer scumbag. Call him what you want...
Just so we are clear. That is far left.
Nazi=Left wing. NAZI is an acronym for National Socialist Workers Party in German.
Does it REALLY matter what this fuckwit's political beliefs are? He's a piece of ****. We should stop trying to label him as "right" or "left" and call him what he really is. A deranged, piece of **** killer.
Yeah, I understand that's a popular, convenient belief, especially in recent times, for conservatives. Unfortunately, it's incorrect. The fact is, it's much more complicated than that as fascism drew it's ideology from both left and right ideologies. It really doesn't have a clear place on the traditional left-right political spectrum. "National socialism" does not equal "socialism", in fact they're entirely different concepts.
I urge you to read multiple sources on this issue, to gain a bit more clarity and maybe even clear up some significant misconceptions on the topic.
I'll leave you with this:
Contrary to what some opinions here have stated, you cannot determine "right wing" and "left wing" simply by how much role the government has- that's a quite recent American definition only, something that has fluxed significantly in our history. Whether a system is "left" or "right" is determined by a host of factors including social organization and policy and treatment of other nationalities. Scholar Roderick Stackleberg put it best: "the more a person deems absolute equality among all people to be a desirable condition, the further left he or she will be on the ideological spectrum. The more a person considers inequality to be unavoidable or even desirable, the further to the right he or she will be". Fascism's hatred for egalitarianism places it as the latter.
The fact that fascism is violently hostile to liberal democracy and socialism mark it as "right wing". It also embraces many other right wing positions, such as xenophobia, ethnocentrism, social conservatism, totalitarianism, sexism/chauvanism, extremely conservative sexual mores, and palingenesis.
http://lubbockonline.com/interact/blog-post/may/2013-04-22/fascism-left-wing#.VYgcGPlViko
Fascism is on the Left. Liberty and personal responsibility are on the Right. Fascism and Marxism are the two primary forms of Socialism, but for decades the Left has told the lie that Fascism is on the Political Right.
Fascists pursue government control of the economy, the people, and everything else. Since Fascism is statist, and those on the political Right embrace personal freedom and responsibility, Fascism has no logical relationship to the Conservative ideology of the political Right.
Conservatives support a small government, as our original Constitution mandates that there be little power in the Federal government. We Conservatives want most of the power to reside with the American people and want what government power is necessary to be kept at the local and state levels.
Those on the Right support Liberty, free enterprise, and personal responsibility. Fascism opposes each of these.
Fascists like Adolph Hitler destroy Liberty, free enterprise, and personal responsibility. Fascism and Marxism are the two Far Left components of Socialism.
“Nazism” is “National Socialism” and arose from the “National German Workers’ Party” and later became the “National Socialist German Workers’ Party.” Such words are not used to identify those political ideologies that exist on the Right.
Crony Fascism is the economic model President Barack Obama has been using. Obama’s economic intentions have been to redistribute our tax money to his cronies and his supporters.
Barack Obama is foundationally a Marxist and wants government to eventually own and control everything. However, Obama is using a Fascist economic model, as he takes money and power from the people and from private businesses. Obama controls the businesses while allowing much of the business ownership to remain private for the time being.
This is just like the health insurance policies would be handled under ObamaCare. People and companies have been told by Obama that they can buy private insurance policies. However, government controls and red tape on private health insurance policies make the policies enormously expensive, which will eventually force almost everyone into government-controlled health care.
The Small Business Administration estimates that government regulations take $1.75 trillion each year from business. That accounts for many lost jobs, lost innovation, and lost growth. Most business leaders remain unimpressed by Obama and do not believe that Obama is on their side.
The Left can claim all it wants that Fascism is not what they support and is not Obama’s political economic model. Their repetitive claims will not make it so. Fascism and Marxism are the two primary forms of Socialism, whether the Left likes it or not.
There is a considerable dispute in some circles over whether fascism is a left- or right-wing idea. This dispute consists mainly of attempts to deny that one's own side of the political spectrum has anything in common with fascism, or alternatively to slime people on the opposite side of the political spectrum by claiming such commonalities. These tactics have been carried pretty far, with "fascist" becoming a general insult or accusation hurled around loosely, usually inappropriately and often childishly, to criticise anyone or anything we find even slightly overbearing or
The Political Compass generally rates fascists as in the economic center, well to the left of today's right-wing politicians but well to the right of socialist figures.
For every link you can post saying that fascism is Right Wing, I can post one that says it is Left Wing.
...I believe George Zimmerman was innocent of murder...
What is the big deal about South Carolina's flag? Until this incident I didn't even know what their flag was. Now every time I turn on Fox News there is someone talking about it. This would not be as big an issue as it has become if it weren't for the media. Let it go already.
Not me...
Their flag isn't even the Confederate Flag. It's a palmetto tree. They fly the Confederate Flag on the State Capitol building, but it's not THEIR flag.
Helter skelter
A statue near The Battery memorializing Confederate defenders of the city was found vandalized Sunday with the message “Black lives matter.”
First, from the Wikipedia page you are selectively cutting and pasting from, it states: Italian Fascism gravitated to the right in the early 1920s.[43][44] A major element of fascism that has been deemed as clearly far right is its goal to promote the right of claimed superior people to dominate while purging society of claimed inferior elements. This very viewpoint can be deemed as right or left. Wiki editors chose to make the slant one that is right leaning. Consider it this way, and you have a leftist ideology: The state is more important than the individual, a position that has led to certain fascist governments to pursue genocide. Tomato, tomatoe. You can also consider religion. Fascists were/are very anti-religion. Religion is a key part of right-wing ideology.
Wrong , it doesn't fly on the State capital building. It was taken down a few years back to appease all of the people who said it was a symbol of hate. It actually flies at the Confederate war museum. Which by the way I doubt to many black people are going to anyway. I was born and raised here , so I have lived here almost 50 years. I could care less about the flag, doesn't bother me either way. My only issue with the whole thing it was moved years ago as a compromise and now because of this nut job it is a big deal again. Nothing but political grandstanding. The flag is part of history whether you like it or not it is history and the flag is flying at a museum about that history. I'm so sick of all of this white guilt bullshit. I don't own any slaves and never have.
Wrong , it doesn't fly on the State capital building. It was taken down a few years back to appease all of the people who said it was a symbol of hate. It actually flies at the Confederate war museum. Which by the way I doubt to many black people are going to anyway. I was born and raised here , so I have lived here almost 50 years. I could care less about the flag, doesn't bother me either way. My only issue with the whole thing it was moved years ago as a compromise and now because of this nut job it is a big deal again. Nothing but political grandstanding. The flag is part of history whether you like it or not it is history and the flag is flying at a museum about that history. I'm so sick of all of this white guilt bullshit. I don't own any slaves and never have.
The flag was put there by former Governor and Senator Fritz Hollings, a Democrat.
I stand corrected. I thought it was the State Capitol. My apologies.