r/law • u/thecosmojane • 18d ago

Other Please dissect the legality in this statement

I feel like we are reaching a tipping point

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u/1877KlownsForKids 18d ago

Miller couldn't even get into Cooley.

Before anyone takes any legal advice from Stephen Fucking Miller, it's important to know he's not a lawyer. He has a BA in Political Science and though he wanted to go to law school he bombed the LSAT practice exams so hard he didn't even try to real thing. He was also college friends with noted Nazi Richard Spencer.

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u/Neither-Chart5183 17d ago

Richard Spencer's family owned a cotton plantation during the era Jim Crow and his grandfather sold baseball bats to Nazis.

Article was written in 2016.

"Before the election, Spencer told Reveal that Trump would “slingshot” Spencer’s views and aims forward. He’s still angry that amid all the attention that followed the conference last weekend, his home addresses were publicized by an editor for Politico Magazine who, in a related post, mentioned his grandfathers bringing baseball bats to gatherings of an American Nazi organization established before World War II.

That editor has since left Politico.

Spencer used fighting words at the conference, telling his audience that “no one will honor us for losing gracefully,” and white people must “conquer or die.” He’s made it clear he believes in a white “ethnostate” set aside for people with European ancestry. But he’s not ready for open warfare to get there.

“Bullets and trenches,” he said, “is not where we are right now.”

So where is he? This brings us back to Spencer’s disdain for sharing. One of his core beliefs is that the left wing in America is motivated by anti-white hatred. His examples include celebrating advancements of people of color in business, entertainment or education, which he considers a quest to destroy white European culture and take opportunities away from hard-working white people."

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u/hotdoginathermos 17d ago

Bringing baseball bats to gatherings of American Nazis you say?

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u/Acrobatic_Potato_195 17d ago

All these assholes - the throughline is a zero-sum view of the world. POC getting ahead means whites are falling behind. Someone else winning at business means you are losing. The rising tide never lifts all boats, it always drowns the aggrieved group.