Support NeoGAF

[badboy78660]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/judge-resigns-after-calling-counter-protesters-snowflakes/2017/08/17/47b99622-8366-11e7-9e7a-20fa8d7a0db6_story.html?utm_term=.5046f8224491

LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. — A Georgia judge has resigned after being suspended for commenting online that opponents of Confederate monuments are ”snowflakes" and ”nut cases."

Gwinnett County Magistrate Court Judge Jim Hinkle was suspended Tuesday while the court's chief judge, Kristina Hammer Blum, considered what action to take. Multiple news outlets now report that Blum said in a statement Wednesday evening that Hinkle had resigned.

The violence during a Charlottesville, Virginia, rally by white nationalists last weekend has stoked calls to remove Confederate statues in other parts of the South.

Hinkle wrote about the controversy on his Facebook page Saturday, saying: ”It looks like all of the snowflakes have no concept of history. ... Get over it and move on." A follow-up post Tuesday complained of ”the nut cases tearing down monuments."

 

[ElectricBlanketFire]

Judge, jury and executioner.

 

[xxracerxx]

Trump to appoint this person to the Supreme Court at the first chance.

 

[Aces&Eights]

Typical southern racist judge. I feel bad for minorities who had to appear before him.

 

[theechrisfox]

"Get over it and move on" - Anonymous, 1865

 

[Llyranor]

Get over it and move on

Shouldn't this be addressed to Confederates and Nazis? You lost, get over it.

 

[Palette Swap]

It looks like all of the snowflakes have no concept of history.

So much irony to unpack here.

 

[Gordon Shumway]

Get over it and move on..

 

[Deepwater]

imagine how many other judges across the country are smart enough to hold their tongues

 

[SomedayTheFire]

Good riddance.

 

[Skellig Gra]

Lower court judge in the middle of racists nowhere. No big loss.

 

[pirateluigi]

wait. I'm confused. The person who wrote this thinks we should KEEP the confederate statues?

“It looks like all of the snowflakes have no concept of history. ... Get over it and move on.”

How is anyone this oblivious?

 

[JBourne]

Typical southern racist judge. I feel bad for minorities who had to appear before him.

Yep. Would be interesting to see his case history.

 

[JCG]

It's precisely because I have a concept of history that these monuments are shameful and despicable to me.

 

[Piecake]

Sounds more like that judge has no concept of history

 

[Brandon F]

Snowflakes would bitch and moan, and then cower from any action.

These 'snowflakes' ripped these statues right down the very next day and some are facing charges for doing so. These 'snowflakes' stood up to a bunch of hate-filled Nazi's armed with nothing but words against men dressed and outfitted for mass murder and warfare.

Rip his ability to practice law ever again while at it.

 

[Common Knowledge]

“It looks like all of the snowflakes have no concept of history. ... Get over it and move on.”

Yes, exactly. The Confederates lost and it's time for the Neo-Nazi snowflakes to get over it and move on instead of wanting to keep their participation trophies everywhere.

 

[Stumpokapow]

”It looks like all of the snowflakes have no concept of history. ... Get over it and move on."

Yes, it's true that the people who have a profound misunderstanding of history and are basing their emotional flailing related to confederate statues on their misunderstanding of history should get over it and move on because they are snowflakes...

...

...

 

[NastyBook]

Gwinnett County

Our state's running gag.

 

[VariantX]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/judge-resigns-after-calling-counter-protesters-snowflakes/2017/08/17/47b99622-8366-11e7-9e7a-20fa8d7a0db6_story.html?utm_term=.5046f8224491

This just is stupid on multiple levels. He's crying about people no longer wanting to stand in the shadow of your loser monuments. Hes telling people to get over it, while forgetting there are plenty of people in the south right now flying confederate flag and adorning themselves with its imagery because they themselves, refuse to get over the fact they cant own other human beings anymore. History is as it happened, not how you feel about it.

 

[TemplaerDude]

"It's history!" Has become another right wing code word for "I'm racist!"

 

[sturgboski]

Wait, who are the snowflakes? Weren't the neo Nazis and white supremacists protesting against the statue removal? And what are people getting over, the fact that the Confederacy was a failed secessionist nation that rebelled against the US (so they are a bunch of traitors) and founded to ensure they get to keep their slaves.

 

[Omegasquash]

"It's history!" Has become another right wing code word for "I'm racist!"

I always thought it was the "Police Lives Matter" window decals in cars, but I don't see a reason for there to be just one indicator.

And my god the irony of "get over it".

 

[FIREKNIGHT2029]

Typical racist douche Trump supporter.

 

[Violence Jack]

Of course it was Gwinett County again. Good riddance.

 

[E-Cat]

It looks like all of the snowflakes have no concept of history.

It looks like he had no concept of this making his career history.

 

[____]

Racists are all across the nation and lots are in positions of power.

But hey, let's not forget - racism is dead, ya'll.

 

[n00bsauce87]

This will probably save men and women unfair sentences and rulings based on the bias this Judge has towards a certain demographic. I'm happy

 

[Slayven]

How many black people has he fucked over?

 

[Nepenthe]

The irony must surely be lost on a shitlord who resigned outright from a suspension after calling people who disagree with white supremacy snowflakes.

 

[Piecake]

I also think it is pretty funny that he is calling other people snowflakes when the whole "Lost Cause" narrative is one of the biggest acts of snowflake-ism in history.

The South created a whole new history based on a fantasy and promoted it religiously so that they could feel better about themselves. If that isn't the act of a bunch of gigantic snowflakes, I don't know what is.

 

[R0ckman]

Wait did he snap and resign immediately knowing the grilling was coming? Or did he get the blowback and quit? Either way, he's looking like the true nutcase willing sacrificing his position to do more evil he desires because he babies out on facebook.

 

[L Thammy]

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

 

[BlueTsunami]

"It's history!" Has become another right wing code word for "I'm racist!"

Not my heritage!

The intermingling of neo-Nazis and supporters of their racist past has done wonders for that argument. Finally getting the social pushback it deserved for years.

 

[EGM1966]

On the contrary I think they're well aware of the history of those statues.

 

[Linkura]

Good. Retire and never work as a judge again, you old, racist asshole.

 

[Nekofrog]

Review all his cases involving convictions of black people now.

 

[Madame M]

Trump will nominate him to replace Kennedy

 

[Movement]

A Nazi/white supremecy sympathizing judge in the US? I'm shocked.

 

[NastyBook]

Review all his cases involving convictions of black people now.

That sounds too much like right.

 

[Glix]

Snowflakes would bitch and moan, and then cower from any action.

These 'snowflakes' ripped these statues right down the very next day and some are facing charges for doing so. These 'snowflakes' stood up to a bunch of hate-filled Nazi's armed with nothing but words against men dressed and outfitted for mass murder and warfare.

Rip his ability to practice law ever again while at it.

Fuck yes. I love this post.