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INTEREST: Potential White Supremacist Rally Aligns with Otakon Weekend in DC

I'm really disturbed at the number of people in the thread implying that antifa is somehow a greater threat than the actual white supremacists. Antifa hasn't murdered anyone; white supremacists have murdered many in the past few years, including at an identical rally just a year ago.

Actually, the Japanese government has been working to almost double the number of foreign workers in the past five years. Without immigration, Japan has experienced negative population growth since 2010.

I'm saying both sides are advocating for violence. Go watch videos of the left assaulting and beating women in the streets, burning down buildings, and putting innocent by standards into comas from attacks and say both sides don't do bad stuff. If you want to stand up to white supremacy, fine, but pick better people to look up to than terrorists.

Of course there are not-so-nice-people in events like Unite the Right (the same applies to Black Lives Matter moviment),

The thing about the First Amendment is that legally protects you in most cases from the government placing sanctions on you for things that are racist, sexist, homophobic, blasphemous, and various other terms relating to discrimination or bigotry. Private employers can fire you for expressing those opinions. On the other hand, there are times where the easily-offended (the Shounen Jump Weekly-type crowd)

I wonder if anyone's ever considered air-dropping copies of Inglorious Basters

Oh definitely. Someone who goes to one of these protests goes at their own risk. Once the fighting breaks out, no one is safe from the violence on both sides. To say nothing of the doxxing afterwards where someone could post your photo on social media and claim you were a white supremacist and nobody asks for proof of that claim before you're fired.

Racism is a problem for several reasons: First, racism is tehcnically wrong since races don't really exist in a clearly delimited sense (what is "white"?, depends on the country and social context, anthropologists have long reached the conclusion that human races do not exist). Second, the idea of caring about their "race" leads to the creation of artificial barriers and stereotypes between people and hence to the dehumanization of individuals. Races don't exist, only individuals exist and if two persons have similar skin tone that doesn't mean they have anything in common.

The concept of race and of thinking that a person should be friends with people of similar skin color is a pretty stupid idea if you think just a little about it: why a person should feel pride of having a skin of a certain color (besides the idea it might look pretty)? It's so stupid, it's like having pride in having a certain shape of their hairline or a certain feet shape and then thinking that people with similar hairline shape or feet shape should be similar people in general just because of those characteristics.

And yet these people are presently not the ones getting mad at being called racist for stating or agreeing with racist views or homosexual and transsexual individuals being represented in various forms of media "where they can spread their gayness and sexual confusion and infect young minds".

Haven't read through all the posts, so I don't know if it's been pointed out, however Lafayette Square Park is not 2.1 miles from the Walter E. Washington Convention Center. It's probably about 0.8 miles by foot.

https://www.nps.gov/aboutus/foia/upload/18-1166-Jason-Kessler-application_Redacted.pdf

https://i.imgur.com/1Sy6EwI.png

The ANN article should be updated to reflect this inaccuracy. I don't want to alarm people further, but it's much closer than Otakon's statement says.

I'm really disturbed at the number of people in the thread implying that antifa is somehow a greater threat than the actual white supremacists. Antifa hasn't murdered anyone; white supremacists have murdered many in the past few years, including at an identical rally just a year ago.

As one who attempted and successfully got a very coveted visa to live in Japan, while they have been trying to bring more people into the country, it certainly is not an easy process. Depending on your perspective, for me seven months waiting was a long time to wait while not having a job and just staying over there on a traveler's visa (an ill advised trek which I will not attempt again). Immigration will make you jump through every possible loop and will not bend at all in regards to if you are running out of time to be able to stay there. I had to submit everything from birth certificates, my parents and grandparents birth certificates and marriage licenses, to a background check conducted by a US governmental entity. They don't kid around in Japan if you want to stay there long term.

all-tsun-and-no-dere wrote:

I'm really disturbed at the number of people in the thread implying that antifa is somehow a greater threat than the actual white supremacists. Antifa hasn't murdered anyone; white supremacists have murdered many in the past few years, including at an identical rally just a year ago.

I'm saying both sides are advocating for violence. Go watch videos of the left assaulting and beating women in the streets, burning down buildings, and putting innocent by standards into comas from attacks and say both sides don't do bad stuff. If you want to stand up to white supremacy, fine, but pick better people to look up to than terrorists.