This guy posted a nice thread on Twitter about the Charlottesville marches and now has this short article in the independent. I like the way it explores the 'we will not be replaced slogan' shouted by the white supremacists, saying
But overcome what? If, as Martin Luther King famously suggested, a riot is the voice of the unheard, then what could it be that a mob of the very much heard might desire? I remembered their chants. Apparently what a mob of the heard wants is to not be replaced.
Fascinating, extraordinary — to fight to not be replaced. It suggests this is where they think our culture is heading: the wholesale replacement of Biff and Skip and Chadwick. Which further suggests they believe the position they hold is one they are keeping others from. It necessarily follows that they think holding this position is as good and right as is denying it to others. Thus, privilege acknowledges its privilege even as it pleads oppressed inequality.
This is why villains are stealing the aspect and bearing of heroes: because the heroism and moral clarity of civil rights is something others have, which they do not, and they cannot bear for others to have something that might otherwise come to them.
The civil rights movement fought and bled and died, so that everybody might have a chair at the table. These venomous crybabies want to fight to make sure they sit in the only chair, and expect to have it credited to them as moral virtue.
If I were to name the sickness presently coursing through the national veins, I might name it this way: Too many of us have confused the idea of oppression with that of opposition.
www.independent.co.uk/voices/charlottesville-white-male-supremacist-attack-killing-oppressed-venomous-crybabies-a7893011.html?amp
I think he is right to say that these people are not shouting because they are in anyway oppressed or even diminished. They are not misunderstood or forgotten. They are complaining because there are people opposing what they see as their god-given right to be at the top of the pyramid shitting on the rest of us. Well, as far I am concerned they can just fuck the fuck off!