Hate at Aberdeen Central hardly anything new

Right to life? Not if you're non-white or nonconforming in South Dakota. 

It's impossible not to notice that the white people who influence the South Dakota Republican Party continue to brainwash their own kids into cancelling culture, selling tyranny and preaching exclusivity to the voting populace. 

In 1888 L. Frank Baum of Oz fame began editing the South Dakota newspaper The Aberdeen Saturday Pioneer where he advocated for the extermination of American Indians.

In 2017 a South Dakota school board voted unanimously to cancel homecoming activities that would have featured a football game between the Sturgis Scoopers and the Pine Ridge Thorpes after a car bearing hate speech and a symbol painted on it that some said resembled a swastika was smashed by Sturgis students. 

In April 2019 sleepy Vermillion became ground zero for Donald Trump's war on America in South Dakota by hosting Charlie Kirk. 

West River is home to the most rabid of the extreme white wing of the Republican Party and just last month the Faith High School Rodeo Club tried to hold a “Slave/Branding Auction.”

While incidents like the one at Aberdeen Central are hardly uncommon in South Dakota white nationalist incitements have intensified because of Trump's history of sexual violence, hateful lies and propaganda. South Dakota's Republican governor spins the hate wheel every day because  Republican is not just another word for earth hater; it's another word for Nazi.

But Charlie Kirk might be right about one thing. At a time when gender fluidity is more common than foot fungus fake journalists like those who curate the Dakota War College and Dakota 'Free Press' can even call themselves brain surgeons if they want to.

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