Taken from today's Working Class History Instagram Post
On this day, 12 August 2017, 32-year-old anti-racist Heather Heyer was killed and dozens injured in a white supremacist terrorist attack in Charlottesville, Virginia. Heather was one of thousands of people protesting against a Unite the Right rally of neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klan activists and other white nationalists and antisemites, when she was hit by a car driven at speed deliberately into the crowd by a 20-year-old Nazi, who was pictured previously on the Unite the Right protest holding a shield emblazoned with the logo of Vanguard America, a far right group. Elsewhere in the city, another group of fascists attacked and viciously beat DeAndre Harris, a young Black education worker, leaving him with spinal and other injuries. President Donald Trump said some of the neo-Nazis were "very fine people".
I'm sure for many of us, it felt like the death of Comrade Heyer was a pivotal moment in our understanding of the fight against fascism. We knew who'd be on the streets to fight, who would be out there against us, and most importantly, who would not be there at all. There's still that danger for standing opposed to fascism, but we fight, because we have to, because the violence will be there regardless, because not everyone can, or not everyone will. It's the only check against the coming tide of fascism.
And thanks to @marxisthayaca for suggesting this, I'll include their whole post here.
Could you link to her funeral service: https://youtu.be/CAoqhV48Avg. The stories memorializing our comrade, need to live on.
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Previous answer
Yes: (3,5), (4,7), (6,10), (8,13) (9, 15), (11,18), (12,20)… [This series of numbers pairs is closely related to Fibonacci numbers and the golden ratio. The first pair differ by 1, the second pair by 2, and the nth by n. Every positive integer appears once and only once in the series of pairs.
A quick addition
These six-digit numbers:
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816,304
117,586
671,355
508,779
183,696
882,414
can be grouped mentally and added in 8 seconds. How?
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I was going to go with a different topic today, but this seemed more relevant, and it was about another passing. But I'll save it for a later date. I'm also announcing a special Mega coming up!
I was in rehab for unite the right and I had no clue who Heather was until I got out. It was so surreal to me when one of the technicians who worked with us mentioned the violence in Virginia. No one knew what they were talking about because we didn't get CNN or newspapers inside the rehab, which looking back is incredibly bad to intentionally keep people in the dark but I suppose the news can be triggering to others. Trump calling the neo-nazis very fine people was like the first major air horn to me that this guy is sympathetic to fascism. I was still pretty new to leftism back then, more in the socdem vein of thinking.
The whe situation, as a non American, made me realize just how bad Trump is, and to really dig into the history of the USA and fascism further. It further reinforced the idea that fascism must me stomped out and opposed as soon as possible, before it becomes a threat.
Yeah, we knew he was a garbage racist, but that moment really showed us that he openly is okay with fascism. And because he passively approved of it, it made it okay for other racists to openly support that type of behavior.
On an unrelated note, when I was hospitalized for depression, there was a serial killer back in my town. He was on a killing spree within a few miles of where I lived, and it felt so surreal that I had no idea that was going on because I was in a facility.