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As the shocking and tragic scene from the Charlotteville, Virginia march unfolded, with violent clashes between white supremacist and their counter protesters – several spectators shook their heads in shame and sadness.
The initial march was led by members of the Ku Klux Klan, alternative rights leaders and white nationalists, as it saw them hurling racist slogans like, ‘You will not replace us,’ ‘Jews will not replace us’ and Nazi slogans like – ‘blood and soil.’
The violent clash resulted into the death of one of the counter-protesters while several others were injured from both sides.
As everyone tried to make some sense out of all that was going on the streets of Virginia, one Twitter user perfectly summed up the very essence of such rallies and how ironical it is for the most privileged section of the society to claim to be oppressed by the rest.
In a series of tweets, Julius Goat – gave us the most profound insight into what can be made out of such violent protests.
Read the sequential tweets below:
Imagine if these people ever faced actual oppression. pic.twitter.com/dhPCbtfEjO— Julius Goat (@JuliusGoat) August 12, 2017
Nobody is trying to legislate away their right to marry.
Nobody is trying to make them buy insurance to pay for ‘male health care.’— Julius Goat (@JuliusGoat) August 12, 2017
The law neverEnslaved their great-grandparents
Robbed their grandparents
Imprisoned their parents
Shot them when unarmed— Julius Goat (@JuliusGoat) August 12, 2017
There is no massive effort at the state and local level to disenfranchise them of the vote.— Julius Goat (@JuliusGoat) August 12, 2017
There is no history of centuries of bad science devoted to ‘proving’ their intellectual inferiority.— Julius Goat (@JuliusGoat) August 12, 2017
There is no travel ban on them because of their religion.
There is no danger for them when they carry dangerous weaponry publicly.— Julius Goat (@JuliusGoat) August 12, 2017
Their churches were never burned.
Their lawns never decorated with burning crosses
Their ancestors never hung from trees— Julius Goat (@JuliusGoat) August 12, 2017
Their mothers aren’t being torn away by ICE troopers and sent away forever. They won’t be forced to leave the only country they ever knew.— Julius Goat (@JuliusGoat) August 12, 2017
The president has not set up a hotline to report crime committed at their hands.— Julius Goat (@JuliusGoat) August 12, 2017
They are chanting ‘we will not be replaced.’Replaced as … what?
I’ll tell you.
— Julius Goat (@JuliusGoat) August 12, 2017
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Replaced as the only voice in public discussions.
Replaced as the only bodies in the public arena.
Replaced as the only life that matters.— Julius Goat (@JuliusGoat) August 12, 2017
THIS is ‘white people’ oppression:We used to be the only voice. Now we hold the only microphone.
— Julius Goat (@JuliusGoat) August 12, 2017
THIS is ‘white man’ oppression.We face criticism now. We were free from it, because others feared the consequences.
— Julius Goat (@JuliusGoat) August 12, 2017
THIS is ‘oppression’ of white Christians in this country.Christmas used to be the only holiday acknowledged, now it’s not.
— Julius Goat (@JuliusGoat) August 12, 2017
I would so love to see these people get all the oppression they insist they receive, just for a year. Just to see. pic.twitter.com/fMKMLXWo79— Julius Goat (@JuliusGoat) August 12, 2017
Give them a world where you ACTUALLY can’t say Christmas.A world where the name “Geoff” on a resume puts it in the trash.
— Julius Goat (@JuliusGoat) August 12, 2017
Give them a world where they suddenly get a 20% pay cut, and then 70 women every day tell them to smile more.— Julius Goat (@JuliusGoat) August 12, 2017
Give them a world where their polo shirt makes people nervous, so they’re kicked off the flight from Pittsburgh to Indianapolis.— Julius Goat (@JuliusGoat) August 12, 2017
Give them a world where they inherited nothing but a very real understanding of what oppression really fucking is.— Julius Goat (@JuliusGoat) August 12, 2017
Give them a world where if they pulled up on a campus with torches lit and started throwing hands, the cops would punch their eyes out.— Julius Goat (@JuliusGoat) August 12, 2017
Put THAT in your Tiki torches and light it, you sorry Nazi bitches.Good morning, by the way, how is everybody.
— Julius Goat (@JuliusGoat) August 12, 2017
Thoughts?