Eventually, those good people got wise, and extracted their terrible revenge. But the river folk weren’t exactly free of sin themselves. And perhaps they deserved being victims as well.

Huckleberry Finn is, to a very great extent, about slavery, and slavery not only brutalizes and dehumanizes the slave, it corrupts and degrades the slave holder as well, as well as everyone else who witnesses and benefits from that peculiar institution.

There are many different kinds of slavery, sometimes so subtle and sophisticated that neither the slave nor the master understands his role in it. And when the time comes to settle accounts, no one escapes the cruel reckoning when it comes. The victims will suffer as well as the guilty, and so will the innocent. Karma, like justice, is blind. And neither will be denied.

America learned that harsh lesson in the mid- nineteenth century. I think we’re about to learn it again.

Its sad to see what Trump has done with his excuse for a brain…

3 years ago I don’t think he would have dreamed of defending Nazis… but here we are….

Hey, data is data. What can I say?

It just ain’t your day today, is it Rob?

Marching in the streets chanting ‘Jews will not replace us’.
White supremacists KILLING people.
A president that empowers those people and defends them.
Tearing down civil rights.
Banning immigrants based on religion
A president that attacks the free press
A president that praises other fascist leaders

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What ISN’T fascism:

Saying Nazis are bad
Saying racism is bad

The KKK has the right to SAY hateful things- and decent people have the right- the OBLIGATION- to denounce them.
To denounce those you have allied yourself with.

From January 2008 to the end of 2016, we identified 63 cases of Islamist domestic terrorism, meaning incidents motivated by a theocratic political ideology espoused by such groups as the Islamic State. The vast majority of these (76 percent) were foiled plots, meaning no attack took place.

During the same period, we found that right-wing extremists were behind nearly twice as many incidents: 115. Just over a third of these incidents (35 percent) were foiled plots. The majority were acts of terrorist violence that involved deaths, injuries or damaged property.

Right-wing extremist terrorism was more often deadly: Nearly a third of incidents involved fatalities, for a total of 79 deaths, while 13 percent of Islamist cases caused fatalities. (The total deaths associated with Islamist incidents were higher, however, reaching 90, largely due to the 2009 mass shooting at Fort Hood in Texas.)

Incidents related to left-wing ideologies, including ecoterrorism and animal rights, were comparatively rare, with 19 incidents causing seven fatalities – making the shooting attack on Republican members of Congress earlier this month somewhat of an anomaly.

Nearly half (48 percent) of Islamist incidents in our database were sting operations, more than four times the rate for far-right (12 percent) or far-left (10.5 percent) incidents.