We need a Lewis’s Law equivalent for White supremacists

This is something I learned myself long ago: If you want to expose the rotten underbelly of society, just make a perfectly tame and eminently reasonable statement in support of women, or Muslims, or Black people, or LGBTQ folk, and so on, and then watch the haters flock to prove you right. Such is what happened to the owners of Cox Farms in Virginia, who stirred the pot when they dared put up a sign that simply reads “Resist White Supremacy”. Cue the response:

About an hour later, a message from a woman named Rebecca, whose Facebook profile was an image that read “TEAM USA,” popped up in Cox Farm’s Facebook Messenger inbox: “Whatever your own personal agendas are none us want to see them on display at a place we once enjoyed going to for tradition. It’s TRULY disappointing.”

Yes, how disappointing that they’d push an “agenda” of opposing people who want to purge minority groups and establish a Whites-only society. The gall of them.

This next idiot sees someone opposing White supremacy and takes the predictable route:

“So black supremacy is okay then?” asked Lisa Lewis. “This is not a message of love, this is a message out to divide people even more. I would never ever visit your farm because you try to force your views on your customers. That is WRONG no matter what you say.”

Somehow I doubt Cox Farms will miss her patronage.

And this one has to be my favorite:

“Resist white supremacy is not an inclusive message,” complained Patty Weston Meizlish, who lives in Louisa, Va. “When you single out a group of people you exclude them. This is a sad message.”

I’d like to state for the record that I am 100% fine with excluding Nazis, alt-Rightists, White nationalists and all other racist junk from every part of society until the end of time. I’m equally fine with the same happening to their supporters and apologists, including imbeciles on Facebook who think opposing White supremacists is the cause of division, rather than the racists themselves.

I also love the farmers’ take on Black Lives Matter:

Shannon Lee Sibley, from nearby Ashburn, contended that she also supported fighting hate groups but wouldn’t spend her money at the farm because it would never post a “Blue Lives matter” sign in support of police.

“You’re right, Shannon — we do not support ‘Blue Lives Matter.’ . . . police lives are already and by default valued in our society,” she wrote. “Black lives are not, so we believe that a declaration that Black Lives Matter is necessary and important.”

If I’m ever in Northern Virginia, I might just drop on by and try out an apple-cider doughnut with these awesome and incredibly patient people.

(via Dispatches From the Culture Wars)