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8/13/2017 11:07 am  #1


The Real Meaning of "On Many Sides"

The Real Meaning of “On Many Sides”

In his speech on Charlottesville, Donald Trump told the nation exactly what he stands for.

On Saturday afternoon, neo-Nazis; white nationalists; and open-carrying, camo-wearing militia members combined forces at a Charlottesville, Virginia, rally to “Unite the Right.” This congregation of white people who love the president of the United States and hate racial, ethnic, and religious minorities chanted “blood and soil” and extended their arms in stiff salutes. The rally culminated in the death of at least one person when the driver of a gray Dodge Challenger plowed through a crowd of counter-protesters, seemingly with the intent to maim and injure.
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On Aug. 12, 2017, Donald Trump stood up at his private golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, and All Lives Matter’d a Nazi rally. “We’re closely following the terrible events unfolding in Charlottesville, Virginia,” Trump said. “We condemn in the strongest possible terms this egregious display of hatred, bigotry, and violence. On many sides.”

He then said those three words again—“On many sides”—as if to emphasize that this throwaway phrase was in fact the only bit of his short speech that he truly believed in. He did not talk about white supremacy, and he did not note the prevalence of racist chants. The troubles in Charlottesville, the president said, were everyone’s fault. Or, to put it another way, nobody in particular was more responsible than anyone else for what happened in Virginia this weekend.  Not even those who idolize Adolf Hitler.

Trump’s refusal to condemn white supremacist violence, coming on the heels of his silence in the aftermath of last week’s mosque bombing in Minnesota, is just the latest affirmation of his fundamental immorality. The president’s racist, anti-Semitic, Muslim-hating acolytes heard the words Trump didn’t say on Saturday. They know they have an ally in the White House, a man who will abet anyone who abets his own hold on power.
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"On Many sides"
The counter-protesters, those marching for the proposition that all men are created equal—they’re apparently part of the problem, too. On many sides,” Trump said. “On many sides.”
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On a day that called for the president to take a stand, he instead made a perverse call for unity. “I love the people of our country,” Trump said at the end of his Bedminster Address. “I love all of the people of our country. We’re going to make America great again. But we’re going to make it great for all of the people of the United States of America.”

The neo-Nazis in Charlottesville heard that call, and so did the posters on the Daily Stormer. “On many sides,” Trump said. These are not anodyne words. They are dangerous ones.

On Saturday, the president had the chance to tell the nation what it is he does and doesn’t believe in. That’s exactly what he did.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2017/08/in_his_speech_on_charlottesville_donald_trump_told_the_nation_exactly_what.html

Last edited by Goose (8/13/2017 11:10 am)


We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists. 
 

8/13/2017 11:55 am  #2


Re: The Real Meaning of "On Many Sides"

How can his handlers (IF he really has ANY) be so tone deaf as to not put together a better set of words for him to speak since almost universally he has be associated with the neo-Nazi types ?? 

I don't know if his advisors are incompetent OR Trump really doesn't care. BOTH are equally troubling. 


"Do not confuse motion and progress, A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress"
 
 

8/13/2017 11:58 am  #3


Re: The Real Meaning of "On Many Sides"

"The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.'
JFK


We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists. 
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