How do you think reddit will react to July the 4th with the current political climate?

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[–]antireddit 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The NYT will do a story on the John Brown gun club and how they are the new breed of patriotic Americans.

The JBGC are the antifa affiliated "anti racist" gun loving military rejects that provided "security" for the Seattle CHOP zone, where they proceeded to LARP as Soviet NKVD strutting around CHOP with loaded assault rifles while committing multiple felonies like assaulting anyone filming with their cameras, before they topped it all off by gunning down two unarmed black teens in a stolen SUV out for a joy ride. They completely obliterated the SUV with gunfire while the teens panicked and tried to drive away, then extensively tampered with the crime scene. One of them unironically stated on camera immediately following the shooting that they had to "clap" them, and that they were out there "saving lives".

The media has been completely silent on their role in the shooting, and its not even clear what kind of a police investigation is being conducted, if any, despite the nation seeing weeks of riots over cops doing something less egregious and being arrested and charged almost instantly.

[–]AFutureConcern 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

This is an example of a classic tactic of deconstruction employed by the left - "I'm an X and I agree with you on Y." This is how they fracture the right and guide them to their own positions. In this case, "I'm an anti-racist and I agree with you on guns." Then when a large number of the group agree with anti-racism, they can pivot to some other tactic to convince them that getting rid of guns will solve racism.

[–]AFutureConcern 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I imagine a few highly-upvoted stories about how Americans are racist and how the 4th July is racist, coupled with some faux patriotism and a disproportionate number of pictures of black people celebrating the holiday.

Though to be honest, I'm not even going to check. No reason to go on the front page of reddit and melt my brain.

[–]deAccount 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They'll talk about how real American patriots would oppose raycizmz, but also that it's nazism to be an American patriot.

They'd mention how heroic the greatest generation is for defeating the nazis, yet also hate on the greatest generation for having such "problematic" views on race, sex, and religion.

They'd praise the abolitionists for having won the civil war, yet also say that their statues need to be desecrated since they supported segregation.