Agreed. This is how I am responding to southern acquaintances that are clutching their pearls about removing the confederate statues - does Germany have statues of Hitler, Goebbels and Himmler? The answer is no. They were killers and traitors just like the confederates. I will add Mengele to my list now too.

Heres what normal/average people do:

Mr President: there was a time in this country we didn’t question the brave fellow citizens committing righteous violent attacks on Nazis and their sympathizers who opposed all we hold sacred; we call them WWII veterans. Stop desecrating their graves.

I’m going to make sure to add a few civics lessons to my teaching this year, even though it’s not my subject because holy fuck do people not understand what freedom of speech and civil rights mean.

What a bunch of pathetic cowards.

Literally in the past 5 minutes this idiot commented on my Twitter feed...

Hey, do you think maybe Jez could do an article on what the ACLU is and how it works? This weekend I’ve seen a lot of people on the internet in general who don’t seem to know. Not just people who dislike the ACLU, which is absolutely fine and their own business, but people who seem to have misunderstood what it does.

Uh for those that missed it Tess Rafferty nailed this directly after election night:

Triumph of the At-Will

Cvjetanovic said:

“Heather Heyer: Woman Killed in Road Rage Incident was a Fat, Childless 32-Year-Old Slut.”

“Welcome to the Department of Justice!”

Yes. YES. If you voted for Trump for “economic” or “pro-life” reasons or some bullshit like that, you voted for racist policies, period. You don’t care what happens to people who are directly affected by racism, so you are supporting it.

Talk about riding the rails, amirite?!?!?!?!?

Thanks, that makes sense.

Let’s also add anti-LGBT

I am absolutely on board with hating on the Olympics. You can’t win without cheating. Countries have been ruined. The IOC is the most corrupt bunch of dudes this side of FIFA.