Today in rooting for the overdog...

Ugh. I mean, ugh. Like, you wouldn't think we'd still have torch-wielding racists marching through the streets of American cities in 2017, but here we are.

Like I said, ugh...

"Just...just don't talk to me right now..."

Ok, maybe you would think that we'd still have torch-wielding racists marching through the streets in 2017. America, it turns out, is still super-racist, but there are a couple of things I don't get. Ok, lots I don't get, but I'm going to narrow it down to just the essentials. The first being, how are these guys the victims of racism? I'm not trying to diminish their plight here, but isn't a white American complaining about being the victim of racism a little like a man complaining about menstrual cramps?

While we cannot rule out the multi-
verse, it's just that the 'they're just assholes'
theory feels somewhat more plausible.

Look, I myself am a white person. A white male in fact. And while I can't speak for every white guy out there, I'm pretty sure that we've never been the victims of racism. Ever. In the history of the universe. Well, our universe maybe. I suppose it's possible, but not super-likely, that Saturday's white supremacists came to our world through a wormhole from some parallel universe where white people have been the victims of, rather than the perpetrators of centuries of oppression and inequality. And if that's the case, they need to put the tiki-torches down and shut up, because on this planet, they're just being assholes.

 You know, the Confederate General
who lost...so it's kind of weird that
he got a statue in the first place.

But I suppose the big question I have is what do they want? Ostensibly they all got together to protest the removal of some statue of noted defender of state's rights and owning people and making them work for no money, Robert E. Lee. They were pissed it was being removed and folded that in with simmering anger and some kind of weird 'white-men as the victims of political correctness' narrative and now three people are dead, nineteen more are injured and everything is terrible. Way to go guys.

So again, what did they hope to get out of this? To keep their stupid statue? A 10% discount at Denny's? What? Or...hey, you don't suppose that they thought everyone else might come around to their point of view do you? Like, they thought that if they put together a big stupid parade of idiots, we'd all just hop on board with the notion that white people are superior to everyone else, but also somehow disenfranchised?

"Look, we're not racists, we're just saying that our race is superior, and should have our
superiority recognized through special privileges, discounts and maybe a even our own diamond lane."

-that big parade of stupid idiots