Alabama newspaper editor calls for the KKK to return and "clean out" DC

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there's a major difference between "i don't want this guy alive anymore" and "i want to see pictures of this guy's mutilated corpse" and i'm not sure why you think i'm arguing against the former

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Pfft, how many KKKs are there by now? 3? 5? 70?

Ooooh wait, yeah, it's a honeypot anyway. Good luck then, mister newspaper editor, you're gonna need it

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I wouldn't say they're large by any means. It's estimated there's less than 10k of them. Most of them typically are backwood hillbilly people that live in Mississippi.

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To be exact Nuremberg trials had people sentenced to death for war crimes, not for being fascists.

There's plenty of people who would do society and the world a favour by dropping dead, fascists or not.
That however does not mean we can improve society by forming lynch mobs and getting rid of people we assume are making the world worse.
At best that's how you get branded a domestic terrorist. At worst you spark a civil war.

People trying to dismantle the systems of justice and equality from the inside are a real problem. Trying to destroy them simply isn't worth it when your ultimate goal is a more peaceful society.

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Referring to the Nuremberg trials to justify public lynching is some interesting logic.

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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/black-woman-replacing-alabama-newspaper-editor-who-endorsed-kkk-n974841

The Democrat-Reporter of Linden, Alabama, announced Friday that Elecia R. Dexter will take over as publisher and editor from Goodloe Sutton, who has run the 140-year-old paper since the 1960s.

Dexter, 46, told The Associated Press that Sutton will retain ownership of the newspaper, which has a circulation of about 3,000, "but I will handle everything else."

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Ouch *puts funny face*, he must be realy pissed now.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/15/us/alabama-newspaper-kkk-editor.html

But in the weeks since, Ms. Dexter said she ran into problems with Mr. Sutton, who retained ownership of the paper, which had been in his family for decades.

She said he emailed an altered version of the Feb. 28 issue of the paper to local news outlets and advertisers. She shared copies of both versions of the front page with The New York Times, which showed that an
article about his retirement had been replaced with one defending the editorial and criticizing The Advertiser for its coverage.

In the end, she said, her decision to step down was complicated by her concerns over Mr. Sutton’s cognitive well-being. She said that his recent behavior was illogical and “more extreme” than it had been in the
past.

“You can be mad at him, but we can’t keep making this about him,” she said. “People like him will exist. That’s just the reality of life.” “The point,” she said, “is not to give those people all the energy.”

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The Democrat-Reporter

I suspect this name was pre-Southern Strategy "Democrat", because boy is it out of touch with today's Democrat ideals.

Just another corrupt small-town newspaper in what is sadly the hick armpit of America.