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http://www.timwise.org Digital Home of Author and Speaker Thu, 19 Feb 2015 18:10:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://www.timwise.org/2015/02/another-day-another-hate-post/ http://www.timwise.org/2015/02/another-day-another-hate-post/#comments Thu, 19 Feb 2015 18:10:49 +0000 Tim http://www.timwise.org/?p=6698 Can people be this illiterate? Even white nationalists?

I find myself wondering this today, having come across a new posting from the Council of Conservative Citizens (which despite its rather innocuous sounding name is a well-established hate group), encouraging people to show up at my speeches over the next several months and challenge me, presumably with words, but one suspects quite possibly with more than that.

According to the CCC, I deserve to be confronted because I have openly advocated killing members of the Tea Party. Wait, what? Oh, you missed where I did that? Yeah, thats because it never happened. Thus my earlier reference to the rather stunning inability of right wing racists to read the plain English found in my tweets or columns. Sadly, this claim is believed by others in the larger Nazi orbit, like the folks at DailySlave (yes, they actually think white people are being enslaved, seriously), who announced on their site: JEW RAT TIM WISE TO SPREAD ANTI-WHITE HATRED ON NEW SPEAKING TOUR Ah yes, spreading the anti-white hatred. Because and much to the surprise of my very white wife, children, mom and best friend I am all about the anti-white hatred. And if you dont like it, cracker devil, you can kiss my white ass. Oh, by the way, later the same folks who called me a JEW RAT also called me a pig devil (sort of a mixed metaphor and totally ironic given the whole Jew thing), so you know they mean business. Just sayin.

Anyhoo, I was concerned when I saw the thing about calling for the murder of Tea Partiers. Though I certainly didnt recall saying such a thing, I suppose one never knows. I have said some shit on social media I later regretted (havent we all?), so I must admit I was curious and clicked the link provided by my Nazi friends just to make sure

Oh, thatnope thats just Nazis being Nazis: either unable to to read (education not being their strong suit), or deliberately distorting the facts so as to gin up hostility and possibly violence against me. Well played skinheads. Well played.

So lets clear some shit up, shall we?

First, I have never advocated violence against anyone. Ever. I have called repeatedly for the right to be crushed politically, utterly and completely destroyed as a viable political force. But not through violence, as I actually think violence for those ends would be not only immoral but counterproductive and only engender more violence and repression from the right in response. I want the Tea Party politically decimated, in other words, as with the larger conservative movement, but not physically harmed. There is a huge difference here as any remotely intelligent person should be able to discern. The fact that I have to actually explain it is pathetic, but sadly, this is the illiterate social media world in which we live, where context and analysis dont matter, so when you say you want people crushed there will be those who accuse you of wanting to drop heavy buildings on them for that purposesigh.

As for what I actually said, and which was twisted into Tim Wise encourages his followers to shoot Tea Partiers in the head, heres the deal. All of this, literally all of it, is based on a tweet. This tweet:

Ok, Ok, so saying fuck these assholes wasnt very nice. My bad. I would have written, aggressively fornicate with these cretinous anal sphincters, but it was Twitter for Gods sakes and one only gets 140 characters, so ya know, give me a break. Anyway, as for the rest of it, only a complete fool or craven liar could think it amounted to advocating killing people.

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