Trump defending racist statues is not a hill on which to die, not even a suburban one - The Politicus
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It is more of a comment on Trump’s “cancel culture” that the Aurora, Colorado police would bust up a crowd of violinists peacefully demonstrating a bias death.
Police showed up in riot gear to a peaceful violin vigil for Elijah McClain.
Ã¢Â€ÂœAurora police basically recreated the dynamic of McClain's death,Ã¢Â€Â says Chris Hayes. https://t.co/oWtBtDxSPe #inners— All In with Chris Hayes (@allinwithchris) July 4, 2020
Campaign aides said they expect backlash against the progressive Ã¢Â€Âœcancel cultureÃ¢Â€Â movement to help Trump's standing w/suburban female voters frightened by images of chaos in the streets.
That backlash has yet to reveal itself in polls.https://t.co/rk0UbG0S4I w/@maggieNYT
President Trump vowed to defeat the 'radical left' in an Independence Day speech at the White House that condemned recent protests against monuments and statues as attempts to destroy the U.S. https://t.co/BBCWsEs6KI pic.twitter.com/1kT4oyKsOw— Reuters (@Reuters) July 5, 2020
Trump is the incumbent president. If he loves statues so much, why didn't he protect them at the time? If AntiFa has seized control of great American cities, why doesn't he do something about it NOW?
The more Trump magnifies protests into city-wrecking riots … 7/x
Defending American history by denouncing the pulling down of statues is a bad bet. It’s certainly possible to compare tearing down of Columbus statues to some anti-Papist statement because the period of their erection paralleled the erection of Jim Crow Confederacy statues, but the real impetus is still about racism. The recent St Johns church photo-op is about dominionist messaging that would use “religious freedom” to suppress speech rights. So much media manipulation and self-contradiction / self-ownage.
The event was widely publicized, but allegations that it had been staged were soon published. One picture from the event, published in the Evening Standard, was digitally altered to suggest a larger crowd.[5] A report by the Los Angeles Times stated it was an unnamed Marine colonel, not Iraqi civilians who had decided to topple the statue; and that a quick-thinking Army psychological operations team then used loudspeakers to encourage Iraqi civilians to assist and made it all appear spontaneous and Iraqi-inspired.[6] According to Tim Brown at Globalsecurity.org: “It was not completely stage-managed from Washington, DC but it was not exactly a spontaneous Iraqi operation.”[7]
The Marines present at the time, 3rd Battalion 4th Marines as well as 1st Tank Battalion, maintain that the scene was not staged other than the assistance they provided.[8]
Robert Fisk described the event as “the most staged photo opportunity since Iwo Jima.”[9]
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Trump defending racist statues is not a hill on which to die, not even a suburban one - The Politicus
, 2020, 2020election, Culture, Election, Election2020, History, Media, Recommended
It is more of a comment on Trump’s “cancel culture” that the Aurora, Colorado police would bust up a crowd of violinists peacefully demonstrating a bias death.
Police showed up in riot gear to a peaceful violin vigil for Elijah McClain.
Ã¢Â€ÂœAurora police basically recreated the dynamic of McClain's death,Ã¢Â€Â says Chris Hayes. https://t.co/oWtBtDxSPe #inners— All In with Chris Hayes (@allinwithchris) July 4, 2020
Campaign aides said they expect backlash against the progressive Ã¢Â€Âœcancel cultureÃ¢Â€Â movement to help Trump's standing w/suburban female voters frightened by images of chaos in the streets.
That backlash has yet to reveal itself in polls.https://t.co/rk0UbG0S4I w/@maggieNYT
President Trump vowed to defeat the 'radical left' in an Independence Day speech at the White House that condemned recent protests against monuments and statues as attempts to destroy the U.S. https://t.co/BBCWsEs6KI pic.twitter.com/1kT4oyKsOw— Reuters (@Reuters) July 5, 2020
Trump is the incumbent president. If he loves statues so much, why didn't he protect them at the time? If AntiFa has seized control of great American cities, why doesn't he do something about it NOW?
The more Trump magnifies protests into city-wrecking riots … 7/x
Defending American history by denouncing the pulling down of statues is a bad bet. It’s certainly possible to comp
are tearing down of Columbus statues to some anti-Papist statement because the period of their erection paralleled the erection of Jim Crow Confederacy statues, but the real impetus is still about racism. The recent St Johns church photo-op is about dominionist messaging that would use “religious freedom” to suppress speech rights. So much media manipulation and self-contradiction / self-ownage.
The event was widely publicized, but allegations that it had been staged were soon published. One picture from the event, published in the Evening Standard, was digitally altered to suggest a larger crowd.[5] A report by the Los Angeles Times stated it was an unnamed Marine colonel, not Iraqi civilians who had decided to topple the statue; and that a quick-thinking Army psychological operations team then used loudspeakers to encourage Iraqi civilians to assist and made it all appear spontaneous and Iraqi-inspired.[6] According to Tim Brown at Globalsecurity.org: “It was not completely stage-managed from Washington, DC but it was not exactly a spontaneous Iraqi operation.”[7]
The Marines present at the time, 3rd Battalion 4th Marines as well as 1st Tank Battalion, maintain that the scene was not staged other than the assistance they provided.[8]
Robert Fisk described the event as “the most staged photo opportunity since Iwo Jima.”[9]
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