Yeah I know what the excuse was but you normally get violent when you have demands and you are under the impression that you cannot achieve those demands through more peaceful ways. Of all the people in the world, one would think white people in the US should be the last to feel that way.
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I think they have a severe entitlement problem.
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/rac...hips-theyve-been-trolling-through-megaphones/
This part though:
The right-wing activists have spent most of their time at sea shouting through megaphones at humanitarian ships and “trolling” other crews over radio.
A lot of the Confederate stuff, from General Lee statues to the Confederate flag, actually fell into irrelevance in the decades following the US Civil War in the 1860s. People only took arms for that again when the Civil Rights movement came to the forefront in the late 1950s and early 1960s, and suddenly there was this hurt pride of a historical legacy that pretty much nobody cared much about before the 1950s... just dressed up like it was something old.
The violence is more like gang warfare. There's more in common here with Bloods and Crips than with politics per se. People want to arm up their side because of rumors that the other side is doing the same. So you get sectarian violence and everybody loses cool heads to avoid de-escalation.
It's really not all that different than when the Nazis marched in my part of Chicago in the 1970s (Marquette Park) as was immortalized by the
Blues Brothers movie in 1980:
Some shit hasn't changed. Except in the Blues Brothers they mowed down the Nazis instead of the Antifa.
Yes, white natives of the US have the least to complain about. Many of them haven't done shit to make something of themselves and felt the system would keep them happily employed with a middle class paycheck for doing basic work and white power structures would allow them to hold their place in society. But they sat still while the world passed them by. So there's a lot of resentment.