Rodney Dunning/Flickr
Neo-Nazi rally participants and counter-protesters scuffle in Charlottesville, Va., August 12.
- Skip to content
- Contact
- Sponsorships
- Donate
- 9:19pm — May 24, 2022
a smarter Tucson is a better Tucson
Republicans can't let the KKK or neo-Nazis co-opt a mainstream brand. The "alt-right" is not just a more extreme version of the Tea Party. They're cobras. I'm not over-reacting — they call themselves Nazis. Republicans like Ally Miller & Martha McSally will have to choose a side in the battle of good vs. evil.... Read more»
Rodney Dunning/Flickr
Neo-Nazi rally participants and counter-protesters scuffle in Charlottesville, Va., August 12.
2111111I want to help TucsonSentinel.com offer a real news alternative!
We're committed to making quality news accessible; we'll never set up a paywall or charge for our site. But we rely on your support to bring you independent news without the spin. Use our convenient PayPal/credit card donation form below or contact us at donate@tucsonsentinel.com today.
Subscribe and stretch your donation over time:
Or give a secure one-time gift with PayPal or your credit card:
TucsonSentinel.com is an Arizona nonprofit organization. Your contribution is tax-deductible.
Please be respectful and relevant. Thought-provoking. Or at least funny.
We want comments to advance the discussion and we need your help. Debate, disagree, yell (digitally) or laugh, but do it with respect.
We won't censor your comments if we don't agree with you; we want viewpoints from across the political spectrum. We're dedicated to sparking an open, active discussion. We believe people with differing opinions can spark debate and effect change.
Comments are open to registered users of TucsonSentinel.com.
Keep in mind:
TucsonSentinel.com does not allow:
Comments that violate these guidelines may be removed. We reserve the right to make up the rules as we go along.
Commentors are solely responsible for the opinions they express and the accuracy of the information they provide. Users who violate these standards may lose their privileges on TucsonSentinel.com.
Sentinel editors can't read every comment. Trolls, spammers and other troublemakers can slide under the bridge. We rely on you to help maintain a healthy conversation - more than likely, you're reading these comments before the editors.
What if you see something inappropriate? Use the 'Flag' button to send it to a moderation queue. Help us out and tell us why you're reporting it; please don't report someone just because you disagree with them. Boy who cried wolf and all that. We'll take appropriate action on violations.
We will not edit comments to alter their meaning or censor comments because of political content.
We will not remove comments solely because they are heartless, cruel, coarse, foolish or just plain wrong. Your disapproval can maintain a decent signal to noise ratio. Ultimately, however, self-policing is the best method.
Bottom line, don't be a jerk.
3 comments on this story
I’ve been horrified by the attempts at equivocation between alt-righters and civil-rights defenders, these past few days.
What the hell happened to US that we suddenly think nazis and fascists aren’t so bad?
I miss my country. Sure, it had its flaws, but when people used to fly nazi flags, other people used to kick the shit out of them.
Fuck nazis. Fuck separatists. Fuck all these hateful pieces of shit.
Blake, of course you’re right about the Nazis, McSally’s dithering, Miller’s childishness, Trump’s ultimate corruption, and the challenge the current situation presents on a non-partisan basis to all Americans.
But your readers may conflate your proper outrage with Nazi legitimation on the right with our deepening appreciation of racism—its prevalence and the toll it takes on our values, our sense of national community, and America’s prestige in the world at large (which comes with real economic and strategic costs).
Racism exists in America because too many Americans are comfortable with it. The Nazis do is one favor: showing us the ugliness in impossible to ignore ways. But for two centuries now, Americans have tolerated and many benefited from prevalent racism. Even a Civil War, the deadliest in our nation’s history, changed only the legal facade of race relations. We are the ones in this historical moment, in every historical moment, who must take an oath to oppose racism and appreciate as a strength our nation’s diversity, Nazis or no Nazis.
No other society can claim to reflect the rest of the world as can our nation of immigrants (including slaves and indentured servants) and proud Native Americans. It is what makes us admired and able to exert leadership of an extraordinary quality. It is also that which enables us to be free, our society’s regard for every human being—an ideal we can be proud of if we are determined to make it real.
Thanks for your impassioned article. It’s issues like these that need to come to the fore, because their resolution will make every other issue—education and healthcare and sustainable economies and climate change and an end to rampant militarism and time to think about and redesign our and successive generations’ future—so much easier to address, once our social justice and equality challenges are met and conquered. We can do it.
You’re beyond help. Hope you get a life sometime.