I hope the bystanders were...let us say, enthusiastic in wrestling him to the ground.

Maybe a class in how to avoid scam artists?

It’s almost as if you’re going to make most of these guys take BS classes to stay eligible under the facade of them being “student-athletes”, you might as well make them take classes that teach them life skills, like money management, responsibility, anger management, and other skills that would benefit them in their…

I worry about overzealous violent mobs and the #notHillary Bernie Bros fringe groups too. But would it be better if we on the left went back to antipathy?

I’m starting to think that Personal Accountability needs to be a freshman level course at these football schools, rather than an elective senior seminar class.

It is an important point and I respectfully disagree. I do not see mobs in these videos, but protesters engaged in constitutionally protected acts of civil disobedience essential to American democratic traditions. The militant antifa block are not only a small minority of the protesters, more importantly, they exist…

NOPE! These statues were put up in 1920s or during Jim Crow bullshit. The Confederates were traitors who LOST the damn war. Plenty still call the war of Northern agression or about states’ rights rather than SLAVERY. Tear them all down.

NC has some serious problems, but there is a fierce anti-racist left here that’s been sharpened by years of having to fight against one of the worst (and unconstitutionally gerrymandered) state legislatures in the country. Fun fact: a few years back, said legislature took control over monuments like these and stripped…

Elliot: “I’m gonna smash through that d-line no problem”

This is a good reminder of (not so distant) history.

Not buying your concern trolling at all. And for the record, I am not white, and many people would say I am not even a liberal.

Not so fast! If they want a statue of Robert E Lee, let them have one. It can be of him surrendering at Appomattox so they can be constantly reminded that they fucking lost.

Exactly. Unless they are ‘relocated’ to a Museum of Shame, these relocation plans are pure equivocation.  

It’s more than a little nod and a wink, especially given his condemning the media within a few hours of his barely sufficient statement, which is also red meat for his white nationalist base. Despite whatever he said today, everyone understands, right now at this moment, whose side he is on, and the white supremacists…

Pull down those traitorous statues and destroy them in every city that has them. Same goes for that fucking flag.

Nope, East Texas. My town is the home base of a repulsively large branch of the KKK. They used to go around in a bus recruiting (I haven’t seen them do that in a while but I fully expect it any second now.)

Do you live in N Idaho or Spokane? Because same here and it drives me fucking crazy. There was a woman who works as a funeral attendant at a local funeral home posting memes about how counter protesters deserved to be run over. I took screen shots and sent to her employer, because goddamn! you’d think someone whose…

HE GOT MAD that people said it wasn’t enough to do this now? Like seriously. What a fucking loser this guy. He just doesn’t know how to not defend himself against every little slight.

If memory serves me correctly, Arpaio was Trump’s partner in crime and immorality in the birther lie. Because he’s a racist piece of shit.