{"id":1481,"date":"2017-08-15T21:07:42","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T02:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gilcanrun.com\/?p=1481"},"modified":"2017-08-15T21:07:42","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T02:07:42","slug":"stop-looking-for-a-center-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gilcanrun.com\/?p=1481","title":{"rendered":"Stop looking for a center here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, it&#8217;s been a while and I&#8217;ve been running, but I can&#8217;t focus on running right now. We all know what happened over the weekend and we know the piece of garbage occupying the Executive Branch has shit all over himself on it. Listen, there&#8217;s no &#8220;center&#8221; position here. You are either a racist, fascist, Nazi piece of garbage or you&#8217;re not. If you want to cape for these people, try and say, &#8220;They&#8217;re not all bad&#8221;, try and mitigate some of their positions as possibly being sensible in some light, you are one of them. And I will fight you.<br \/>\nThis shit needs to stop, there&#8217;s no excuses anymore. &#8220;Well that&#8217;s how they were raised.&#8221; No, fuck that how long are we going to continue to ALLOW people to be raised this way? It&#8217;s been going on for generations and it never gets better and it never stops. I said it earlier, fascists, racists, etc. are easy to fight. But the people in the center, or searching for the center are the ones that keep it going. They turn escaped slaves in and send them back into bondage, because they don&#8217;t want to cause any waves, they don&#8217;t want to rock the boat. They want reconstruction to end and the freed peoples to not get reparations because the traitors of the confederacy are still our &#8220;countrymen&#8221;. They kept an apartheid regime in place because it was what the &#8220;people&#8221; voted for. They talk about how it is just for police to &#8220;fear for their lives&#8221; at a rate of 7:1 against POC, and that these murders are just because maybe those victims did something bad in their past. Now they sit there and tell me and all of us, that it&#8217;s both sides here, and it&#8217;s not. One side has always been about protecting the exploited, protecting and elevating the downtrodden, making the world a better and just place. The other side has been about murder and mayhem, slavery and exploiting peoples, and telling them they should be thankful for the opportunity. There is no comparison here.<br \/>\nNazi Germany modeled their apartheid on ours. You don&#8217;t understand the link between the US and Nazis, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/the-nazis-as-students-of-americas-worst-racial-atrocities\/2017\/05\/19\/fdbcd258-1ef9-11e7-a0a7-8b2a45e3dc84_story.html?utm_term=.be10d04c0fe5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">you need to read.<\/a>\u00a0There is nothing that makes any of this acceptable. Anyone who wants to try and tell me that the people fighting against the models of what the Nazis did in Germany are the same, you have no clue what you&#8217;re talking about and you only prolong the pain and suffering of millions of people in this world. Shame on you.<\/p>\n<iframe allow=\"autoplay\" class=\"youtube_embed_iframe\"    allowFullScreen=\"true\" style=\"width:640px; height:385px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tpcHc3SEtLA?autoplay=0&theme=dark&loop=0&fs=1&showinfo=1&modestbranding=0&iv_load_policy=1&color=red&autohide=1&disablekb=0&enablejsapi=1&version=3\"><\/iframe>\n<p>Have fun, keep running, and remember; if Gil can run then so can you!<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-pinterest\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-pinterest-1481\" class=\"share-pinterest sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gilcanrun.com\/?p=1481&amp;share=pinterest\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Pinterest\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-1481\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gilcanrun.com\/?p=1481&amp;share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-reddit\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-reddit sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gilcanrun.com\/?p=1481&amp;share=reddit\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Reddit\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#\" class=\"sharing-anchor sd-button share-more\"><span>More<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"sharing-hidden\"><div class=\"inner\" style=\"display: none;\"><ul><li class=\"share-email\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-email sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gilcanrun.com\/?p=1481&amp;share=email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to email this to a friend\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to email this to a friend (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-1481\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gilcanrun.com\/?p=1481&amp;share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><li class=\"share-print\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-print sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gilcanrun.com\/?p=1481\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to print\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to print (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-tumblr\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"\" class=\"share-tumblr sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gilcanrun.com\/?p=1481&amp;share=tumblr\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Tumblr\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><li class=\"share-linkedin\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-linkedin-1481\" class=\"share-linkedin sd-button share-icon no-text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gilcanrun.com\/?p=1481&amp;share=linkedin\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on LinkedIn\"><span><\/span><span class=\"sharing-screen-reader-text\">Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, it&#8217;s been a while and I&#8217;ve been running, but I can&#8217;t focus on running right now. We all know what happened over the weekend and we know the piece of garbage occupying the Executive Branch has shit all over himself on it. Listen, there&#8217;s no &#8220;center&#8221; position here. You are either a racist, fascist, Nazi piece of garbage or you&#8217;re not. If you want to cape for these people, try and say, &#8220;They&#8217;re not all bad&#8221;, try and mitigate some of their positions as possibly being sensible in some light, you are one of them. And I will fight you. This shit needs to stop, there&#8217;s no excuses anymore. &#8220;Well that&#8217;s how they were raised.&#8221; No, fuck that how long are we going to continue to ALLOW people to be raised this way? It&#8217;s been going on for generations and it never gets better and it never stops. I said it earlier, fascists, racists, etc. are easy to fight. But the people in the center, or searching for the center are the ones that keep it going. They turn escaped slaves in and send them back into bondage, because they don&#8217;t want to cause any waves, they don&#8217;t want to rock the boat. They want reconstruction to end and the freed peoples to not get reparations because the traitors of the confederacy are still our &#8220;countrymen&#8221;. They kept an apartheid regime in place because it was what the &#8220;people&#8221; voted for. 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