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Chris Mohney? @chrismohney 18h18 hours agoThe only thing funnier than nazis sobbing over confederate monuments is that they came bearing citronella tiki torches. badass
Solly Mack
(90,762 posts)Warpy
(111,241 posts)Of course, the real thing probably smells a lot worse.
NBachers
(17,099 posts)countryjake
(8,554 posts)demonstrating like that don't strike me as funny, not considering the slogans they used while making their stand in the park last night, nor the nasty threatening tweets they're spewing out today.
I'm not grousing at anyone for making light of these guys, so please don't take it personally. I'm just remembering a demo years ago and how quickly those types are to use their weapons. That the faces in that picture are all so young is what worries me most.
There was another rally in that same Charlottesville, Virginia park tonight, hundreds of peaceful well-meaning people came out to take back Lee Park; a banner was hung over the R.E.Lee statue saying "Black Lives Matter" and "Fuck White Supremacy".
http://www.nbc29.com/story/35426536/group-holds-take-back-lee-park-rally-in-response-to-torchlight-protest
bigtree
(85,986 posts)...while we all take the bigotry behind this absurd display seriously, it deserves as much ridicule as we can manage through our outrage.
Personally, I'm not moved in the least by these elitist white men parading around at night and I see only their ridiculousness. I won't give them the benefit of taking them seriously.
Ridicule them, ostracize and isolate them. Make this nonsense as uncool for participants as those of us in the community that abhor the behavior can project. Taking them seriously doesn't seem to be a productive way to address them.
Yupster
(14,308 posts)while you're out protesting.
Pachamama
(16,886 posts)First they think they are invited when they hear the chants "BLOOD and Soil" and then that there are citronella torches...
Hope they got more than a few 1000 bites in....