You Might Be a White Supremacist

Thanks to John Kelly's incredibly dumb comments about the American Civil War, I have been inspired to finally write a post that has been germinating for a while (and I am ripping off Jeff Foxworthy's "you might be a redneck routine.")

• If you think that both sides of the US Civil War were honorable, you might be a white supremacist.
• If you think that the civil war happened because the North didn't compromise enough (despite many historic compromises named things like "The Missouri Compromise"), you might be a white supremacist.
• If you think there were fine people on both sides of Charlottesville, you might be a white supremacist.
• If you take a vague executive order about a ban on Muslims and enthusiastically enforce it, you might be a white supremacist.
• If you empower the immigration folks to violate a heap of norms (sick kids in hospitals?), then you might just be a white supremacist.
• If you give Steve Bannon an office in the White House, you might be a white supremacist.
• If you continue to have Stephen Miller involved in policy-making and speech-writing, you might be a white supremacist.
• If you appoint a friend of the KKK as Attorney General, someone the 1980s GOP thought to be too racist to be a Federal Judge, you might be a white supremacist.
• If you support disenfranchising minorities via voterfraudfraud, such as by appointing a known vote suppressing such as Kris Kobach as head of a voter suppression effort, you might just be a white supremacist.
• If you target an NFL player for protesting police violence against minorities, you might just be a white supremacist.

I could and probably will go on....   but this gets the idea across even without referring to Trump's racial discrimination in rental housing or other older statements/behavior).

Update:

• If you cannot denounce slavery, you might just be a white supremacist:

Today journalist April Ryan asked Sarah Sanders: "Does this administration believe slavery was wrong?" Sanders left without answering. pic.twitter.com/vZYCZnMFAH

— Tara McKelvey (@Tara_Mckelvey) October 31, 2017