‘Through the looking glass is a metaphorical expression. It means: on the strange side, in the twilight zone, in a strange parallel world. It comes from the idea of Lewis Carol’s novel: ‘Through the Looking-Glass’, and the strange and mysterious world Alice finds when she steps through a mirror.’ Quora
‘Trump: ‘Both sides’ to blame for Charlottesville’
‘In a remarkable news conference in the lobby of Trump Tower, President Donald Trump blamed the violence in the Charlottesville, Virginia, Saturday on both sides of the conflict, equating the white supremacists on one side with the ‘alt-left’ on the other side.
‘I think there is blame on both sides,’ he said.’
‘He added: ‘You had a group on one side that was bad and you had a group on the other side that was also very violent, nobody wants to say it, but I will say it right now.’
‘Trump defended his 48-hour delay in denouncing whit supremacists, arguing that he took his time because he didn’t know the facts.’ CNN
‘Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!’ Isaiah 5:20
Heather Hyer is dead.
‘A North Carolina KKK leader says that he is ‘glad’ that anti-white supremacist protestor Heather Heyer was run down and killed in Virginia.’ New York Daily News
‘I’m sorta glad that them people got hit and I’m glad that girl died’, Justin Moore ‘a Grand Dragon’ in a KKK organization, told WBTV’
‘The voicemail for the group’s phone number also praises Fields’ [Neo-Nazi James Fields who drove his car into a crowd of people, injuring several and killing Ms. Hyer]
‘Nothing makes us more proud at the KKK than we see white patriots such as James Fields Jr. age 20, taking his car and running over nine communist anti-fascist, killing one n—-r lover named Heather Heyer.’ New York Daily News
So sad and scary.
Yes it is!
“Both sides.” Aaaargh, how those words have enraged me since I started following BlackLivesMatter and understanding how grave a power imbalance they conceal.
To attempt a moral equivalency with Neo-Nazis and white supremacist groups and those protesting them…is a terrible insult and the lowest form of hate speech!
The President’s comments were chilling.
This is frightening and again an example of his lack of education, moral and ethics.