Tiki-torch wielding nazi snowflake bites the dust ("I'm not a neo-Nazi! I'm a moderate Republican!")

[Miles Archer]

‘My life is over’: 21-year-old Charlottesville marcher whines over ‘outing’ by anti-fascist group



Rochester, NY-based group called Eastside Antifascists took still images of Kuhn and distributed 250 fliers bearing his photo throughout the Honeoye Falls area with the slogan, “No Nazis in our neighborhood.”

***

Kuhn says he’s not a racist, but that he traveled the nearly 500 miles from Honeoye Falls to Charlottesville to protest the removal of a Confederate monument to Gen. Robert E. Lee from Charlottesville’s Emancipation Park.

“It’s a piece of history, and I thought that it should remain,” Kuhn said. “It’s important to me that we preserve American history no matter how ugly the past is it’s associated with.”

“I’m not a neo-Nazi,” he insisted. “I don’t belong to a German workers’ party from 1933. I’m a moderate Republican.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/my-life-is-over-21-year-old-charlottesville-marcher-whines-over-outing-by-anti-fascist-group/

[jpak]

1. Bullshit

Coward

[DK504]

2. No one drives 500 miles to protest the removal of a disgusting

Civil War statue unless they are a Kluxer. WTF is a New Yorker doing celebrating Civil War generals? He seems to have skipped the American History classes in 9th grade.

[Roland99]

17. Exactly!!

[PatSeg]

35. Yeah, 500 miles?

Because of a statue?

Actions have consequences honey, you've just learned a really hard lesson.

[cstanleytech]

72. If people can drive 500 or more miles to advocate for removing them they can do the same for not

removing them.
Personally I think they should let the local communities make the decision on if they want to keep the stupid things up but thats just my opinion.

[iluvtennis]

96. Absolute nonsense...no one drives over 7 hours if they aren't committed to the cause. Closet racist

who is one way out and about in NY, but a different way when "he lets his hair down".

[forgotmylogin]

101. And someone who somehow innocently thought it was a peaceful protest...

...who was *not* a Nazi-WS would gladly have turned their car around and drove 500 miles back once they saw all white men brandishing torches and yelling "blood and soil".

[Raster]

103. And carrying shields and wrapped pipes and other implements of peaceful protest.

[SergeStorms]

116. You'd be surprised....

how many of these nitwits live in New York, especially in what's called "The Southern Tier" (southern NY, along the PA border). Honeoye Falls is about 50 miles north of that area, but close enough. I've run into a lot of these fascist bastards down in that area over the years. Rebel flags mounted on the back of their pick-up trucks. No AMERICAN flags, just Confederate flags.
I went to Alfred University, back before the earth's crust was cool, and we "Northerners" used to call the area "Pennsyltuckey", because it was more attuned to southern living than Yankee living. It was a strange place. I'd never lived in a place like that before. Is was a dry town, no alcohol sold, but EVERYONE had it. That's where I first tasted moonshine, and I never tasted it again. Man........the memories that just cam flooding back of that place.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

120. I lived in that area--Honeoye Lake/Hemlock/Canadice area for 15 years.

There are plenty of retrogrades out there.

It's not a total loss out there, it's a beautiful area and there are cool people--Liberals--too.

[Plucketeer]

130. Talk about nothing BETTER to do !

[dalton99a]

3. Jerrod Kuhn, ardent art preservationist

Nazi caught red-handed on camera

[Bettie]

4. Wow, so now

"Moderate Republican" means "guy who marches with the Nazis"!

Hope he becomes a pariah in his town.

I was on the fence for a while about removing the statues until I learned two things:

First: I hadn't realized they were put up during the Civil Rights movement

Second: If it bothers this segment of society (Nazis/white supremacists) that much, it has to be the right thing to do.

[L. Coyote]

19. More "moderate" Republicans:

The only wave traitorous Confederate and Nazi flags in moderation.

Link to tweet

[Bettie]

22. LOL

Yeah, by "moderate" they must mean that they try to hide it...sometimes.

I think they forget that in this age of social media, you can't be an anonymous face in the crowd anymore.

[fleabiscuit]

71. I think you nailed "moderate." nt

[dalton99a]

122. White power symbol?

Nah, they never do that in photographs - time and time again

[Lucky Luciano]

44. I think these days moderate republicans are like moderate Nazis. nt

[ananda]

64. Same here.

I didn't really think much about the statues before.

But once I learned that they were put up to intimidate and
discourage minorities during the Civil Rights movement,
that tore it.

They need to go.

[Phoenix61]

79. Same here

I didn't think about it, then I read the speech made by the Mayor of New Orleans. I get it now and they do need to come down, now, right now.

[klook]

94. Some of the Confederate memorials were built in the

early 1900s, way before the voter registration drives and marches of the 1950s and 60s -- but that period was polluted with racism as well, of course.

The way I see it, "The Civil Rights Era" started at the beginning of time and continues today. (And I know you don't mean otherwise, so this is not intended as a challenge to your post.)

[rusty fender]

5. HAHAHA

So that's what a moderate Repuke is today

[dalton99a]

14. The more moderate, the more distinctive the haircut

[rusty fender]

18. So true

[tblue37]

15. I hate when extreme right wingers like Gov. Kasich are labeled "moderate" by

the media just because they do one or two things right.

The phrase "moderate Republican" is an oxymoron these days. By labeling himself thus, this little jerk helps to reveal that reality.

[rusty fender]

24. Absolutely!

Even 'moderates' like Susan Collins vote 98% of the time with their racist fuckwad Repukes

[irisblue]

42. True this!

[LisaM]

49. Don't get me started on Kasich.

He's big into vote suppression. Anyone who thinks that Citizens United and vote suppression didn't help get us here has her or his head in the sand.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

121. And he's against Women's reproductive health and economic equality.

He's anti-abortion.

That's the tell, for me. Infuriating that his hardline position on that critical HUMAN RIGHTS issue means nothing to media and even to some liberals.

[we can do it]

92. Same here.

[spooky3]

113. [phone]

[Javaman]

6. the roaches desperately try to find a dark space away from the big bright light on them. nt

[gratuitous]

11. They're ot-nay oo-tay ight-bray, are they?

I guess they didn't realize that the tiki torches cast a light on them. Idiots.

[Squinch]

16. LOL! They'll NEVER figure out what you said there!

[Lochloosa]

20. I HATE PIG LATIN!!!!!

My aunts would talk in it when I was a little kid....used to drive me crazy trying to figure out what they were saying.

[Hekate]

86. Funny aunties. I learned it from other kids and loved it.

[L. Coyote]

21. Are those goat sounds?

[Control-Z]

34. That made me laugh. eom

[underpants]

78. Saw that before but it's a classic

[saidsimplesimon]

38. Jodi Foster

"Nell", thanks for the reminder gratuitous

[AlexSFCA]

7. Love it!

ZERO TOLERANCE is the policy towards nazi and sympthisers. Their lives should be destroyed before millions of innocent lives are taken by their actions.
Germany had to learn the hard way and imposed limits to free speech where nazi propganda is banned and is not at all free speech under german law.
There are upcoming rallies across the country so we'll see if these measueres are working and their numbers are down or the hoods are back on

[Squinch]

13. Exactly! This doesn't require any limits to free speech. This requires shining a light on them.

And, ironically, they were the ones who asked for that light to be shone. They performed an overt act to associate themselves with the Nazis during an attention getting outing. We just obliged and gave them that attention. Also, I love the fact that he's filmed chanting Nazi slogans and then claims he's there about the statue.

Assholes gotta learn somehow.

[forgotmylogin]

107. And this is NOT a "free speech" issue.

This is a "we disagree with what you are saying, not your right to say it" issue.

Do express your hatred of Judaism all you want on your blog. Do not express your hatred of Judaism in public while marching around a temple with torches and a gas can and fifty of your white friends.

[meow2u3]

45. Democrats can capitalize on ZERO TOLERANCE towards nazis and sympathizers

tRump handed Democrats a gift on a silver platter. All we have to do is force repukes to stand up to neo-nazis, KKK, and other white supremacists, even if it means repuke politicians have to abandon their base, at the expense of being associated with domestic terrorists if they're so much as tepid in their response.

[MadCrow]

8. Old saying

You are known by the company you keep. Methinks you doth protest too much.

[saidsimplesimon]

39. Huh

Thank you Miles

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. If somebody protests that "I'm not a racist!" you can bet they're a racist.

And if he's an example of a moderate Republican, that tells you something about where the GOP sits these days.

[Squinch]

10. The Nazi is a moderate Republican. In this insane time, that seems about right.

[rurallib]

41. we can thank him for telling us that "moderate Republican" means the same as nazi.

[spooky3]

115. +1

[Initech]

12. Regardless of party affiliation, he's a jackass.

[Arkansas Granny]

23. Sorry, fella. You're known by the company you keep.

[workinclasszero]

25. Oh look! One of those "very fine people" Grand Dragon of the KKK Trump

spoke about the other day.

[SWBTATTReg]

26. he's nothing but a coward and bully who was...

called out for participating in a cowardly march for hate, plain and simple.

[anneboleyn]

27. They are trying so hard to spin this as "we were protecting the statue" bullshit. Stupid.

[workinclasszero]

33. Yes and Trump gave him the cover story

Isn't that special?

[Volaris]

62. Yep that and 'oh, look how oppressed we are by the intolerant Liberals'

These dumb fuckers want to have us believe they're just like BLM. But even they know they're not lol...

[rusty fender]

28. The Repukes own

every one of these Nazi scumbags! This is who you are,

[pangaia]

29. Honeoye Falls is not far from me.. yikes..

Good job Eastside Antifascists.

[Old Vet]

109. Same here, Iam near canandaigua, Thats to close to home..

[Thomas Hurt]

30. He is right. He is not a Nazi from 1933. He is a modern day American fascist from 2017 who

wants everyone to believe he is a moderate Republican racist.....I guess.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

31. He did Nazi that coming, eh?

How long before republicans start removing laws on the books preventing people from covering their faces. Laws which, btw, were enacted due to the KKK in a lot of cases.

[jmowreader]

52. Never

Any Republican who tried it would be labeled a Muslim Sympathizer.

[Downtown Hound]

32. Moderate? LOL.

[pangaia]

36. Jarrod Kuhn, who lives behind a shoe store on Main Street.

FROM: THE DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE Rochester Daily paper--

The amateur sleuthing campaign to identify torch-bearing Charlottesville marchers has literally landed on the doorsteps of village of Honeoye Falls residents.

Hundreds of them, maybe thousands, this week found flyers on their property singling out a 21-year-old man named Jarrod Kuhn, who lives behind a shoe store on Main Street.

http://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/local/columnists/andreatta/2017/08/16/andreatta-nazis-charlottesville-playing-fire-honeoye-falls-protest/574190001/

[Historic NY]

37. Lie down with dogs and you will get fleas....

[moda253]

40. Fuck you mutherfucker!!! You LITERALLY took up the torch!

REAP REAP REAP!!!!!

[yuiyoshida]

43. Fuck him with his Tiki torch!

Natzls using Polynesian Torches cause they have no clue how to make their own damn torches! Cultural Appropriation Bastards! Leave my culture out of this!

[ALBliberal]

119. Lol!

[dbackjon]

46. So you just admitted that what passes for Moderates in the GOP

Are Neo-Nazis...

[eleny]

47. What was he shouting?

That will go far to reveal who he is.

[keithbvadu2]

48. He's marching with Nazi flags and hatred of Jews. Moderate republican, eh?

He's marching with Nazi flags and hatred of Jews. Moderate republican, eh?

[George II]

50. I wonder what is creating the largest puddle these days....

Melting snowflakes or snowflake tears?

[Hassin Bin Sober]

55. Nazis wetting themselves.

[George II]

56. Hah! That's THREE puddles forming.

[zentrum]

51. But he's right!

There isn't much daylight between the two these days.

Scratch away the mask of Republican and you find a racist, sexist, anti-gay bigot.

[ProfessorGAC]

53. He Doesn't Want To Get Fired

That's the only reason why he's saying that. He marched with nazis. He attended a rally where the speakers were nazis and klansmen.

He's liar if he says it was about a stupid statue. He's one of them.

[George II]

54. Here is the new right wing theme song (trump administration included!)

[BainsBane]

57. Good, they are feeling the consequences of social shaming

which is the only power we as citizens truly have in this situation. Hopefully this will make these guys think twice before picking up their torches and chanting Nazi cries in the future.

[lunasun]

111. Yes ostracism is effective in societies . Shun them shame them let them talk to the hand

[progressoid]

58. I bet he has a Black friend too!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

59. Walk with nazis, shout with nazis. Yup, nazi. . . . nt

[Texin]

60. "Moderate" rethug? Moderates of any stripe don't drive 500 miles

to attend an organized and heavily publicized rally organized by neo-Nazis and other alt right, racist cretins. In an age when a single tweet can result in the public humiliation of a young professional and result in their professional termination, why would anyone except an extremist appear in a public place where their photos are likely to be taken by observers, reporters and others?

[Old Enough 2]

61. Old Enough 2

Moderate Republican, oh my, thought that species extinct. Stop vacillating and open your eyes to the historic damage made in the name of these statues.

[Turn CO Blue]

63. So that fascist symbol on his polo shirt just fell on him? Poor dude, what are the odds?

The black and yellow symbol patch on dude's polo shirt is from Anti-Communist Action - A far-right hate group according to SPLC

From this article about far right symbols and flags:
https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017/08/12/flags-and-other-symbols-used-far-right-groups-charlottesville

The black and yellow colors refer to libertarianism, typically depicted on web forums under a black and yellow banner. Variations of the flag often feature helicopters dropping a figure from the sky, a reference to Augusto Pinochet’s brutal tactics of suppressing dissent.

The shirt:
https://www.anticom.zone/product-page/anticom-polo-shirt

/v1/fill/w_250,h_250,q_85,usm_0.66_1.00_0.01/68fb5d_e909c8d64ee84f06887b732e65433880~mv2_d_5312_2988_s_4_2.jpg

[underpants]

84. No no no he's on the golf team

Thanks. I didn't know that

[christx30]

65. I found a good compromise for the statue thing:

Replace all the General Lee statues with General Sherman. Have one statue of Lee, surrendering at Appomattox Courthouse.
We still have everything to educate people, and the "history buffs" with the white hoods and the Swastikas will be happy.

[hurple]

66. new term?

We need a new term for all these whiny little nazi's who are has a sad after being outted for the asswipes they are...

How about snaziflake?

[Beartracks]

67. Then maybe u should be more careful with the company u keep.

And anyhow, the history will be preserved; it's just that statues of American traitors don't need to be in places of honor.

=============

[SCVDem]

68. This asshole and his Nazi ilk

terrorized Jews in their Synagogue.

Can it get any more disgusting?

That alone should land him in prison for terrorism.

[Moostache]

69. Wearing the uniform and shouting the slogans equals guilty beyond a reasonable doubt

When you abide the company of those who chant "Jew will not replace us" or "Blood and Soil", regardless of whether you believe in the "cause" or "just think its cool to piss off liberals", you take on their negative side effects as sure as you breath.

The ONLY way you get to say "I wasn't really with them" is if you are on tape protesting AGAINST them or DEFENDING yourself or others against them. You get no quarter for after the fact finding an "alt-reason" for your presence.

Loved the Chris Rock quote: "If 10 guys think 1 Nazi is alright in their group, they just became 11 Nazis."
Amen.

[Cal Carpenter]

99. That is a really great quote

"If 10 guys think 1 Nazi is alright in their group, they just became 11 Nazis."

And true. The way our politics work in the US, it is easy for most lines to be made blurry as we see on DU all the time - otherwise we'd agree on everything.

But when you are talking about Nazis and Fascists the line is fucking clear and you must pick a side. There is no middle ground. Claiming neutrality or equivocating means you are on the side of the Nazis and Fascists.

It is not enough to 'not be a Nazi' (or Fascist). If you aren't anti- Nazi, you are a fucking Nazi. Particularly at a time like this when people in the highest levels of our government are playing on that turf. This isn't a theoretical, philosophical question. This shit is real.

[dalton99a]

123. +1

[Blue_Tires]

70. Who the hell are all these lifelong northerners with

such a hard-on for the old confederacy?

[Enoki33]

73. We know who you are and what you are. We will always shine

disinfectant on your sick mind that is incapable of even acknowledging what you have done. Zero tolerance.

[world wide wally]

74. Using Trump's talking points.... I have this affinity for statues, y'see

[ck4829]

75. Kick

[disillusioned73]

76. Oh, we know your a republican,

that is crystal clear..

[The Wielding Truth]

77. I call B.S.!

[TNNurse]

80. March with nazis????

You are a nazi.

[underpants]

81. That look on your face when you realize someone took your picture at a Nazi rally

[Raster]

88. ... and oopsie-doodle, you just might be held responsible for your actions...

...just a moderate republican, eh?

[underpants]

89. He did nazi that coming

[Raster]

91. Oh you! You've used that a few times now...

....very CLEVER, Mr. Underpants, very clever!

[underpants]

95. Stole it from someone on DU

pinboy?

[Raster]

102. Probably... pinboy loved the turn of the phrase...

...and was the Lord of the Pun.

[lunasun]

82. Same thing at this point . Republicans are voting and acting like Nazis

[CCExile]

83. Kuhn continued, saying...

"I was only carrying a torch because liberal streets are so gosh darn dark!"

[LiberalArkie]

85. His haircut says something different. So does his shirt and probably his kakis.

[Honeycombe8]

87. Moderate Republicans don't march with Nazis. Waddya wanna bet those pants he's wearing...

are tan?

[TexasBushwhacker]

90. I looked up Honeoye Falls, NY where he lives

It's a village of 2000 residents that's 97% white. If even they don't want him, who does?

[calimary]

93. Asshole, meet Consequences.

Sit down and start getting to know each other, 'eh? You're gonna be "friends" for a LOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNNGG time!

[Podkayne K]

97. MODERATE REPUBLICAN LMAO

AMERICAN POLITICS 101 LESSON ONE:

MODERATE REPUBLICAN = NEO-NAZI!

LESSON TWO:

NEO-NAZI = TERRORIST!

LESSON THREE:

TERRORIST (and enablers) = SCUM OF THE EARTH?

CLASS DISMISSED.

[47of74]

98. Yeah if you don't want to be thought of as a Nazi...

...THEN DON'T FUCKING HANG AROUND NAZIS!

[TlalocW]

100. Is he wearing some sort of ascot in that first photo?

I'm sorry, but if that's the case, he's not Nazi'ing very well as ascots just bring up images of Michael Caine's character in, "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels."

TlalocW

[Solly Mack]

104. Fart Noises

[Aristus]

105. How can one protest and call oneself a 'moderate'.

Isn't the very act of protesting immoderate?

[Joe Nation]

106. I'm not a racist.....

but I played one in Charlottesville this past week.

[ecstatic]

108. Funny how much they love history and the past until the topic of reparations

comes up. Of course, the moment reparations gets brought up, it suddenly becomes time to get over the past and move on.

So interesting!

[lillypaddle]

110. Chicken shit

whine whine whine. If you can't stand the heat, don't go in the kitchen you little, chicken shit.

[Blue Idaho]

112. "Nazi" "Republican"

A distinction without a difference.

[spooky3]

114. He's half right. He is a moderate Republican by today's standards.

[mwooldri]

127. I'd argue that today's Republican Party...

... has too much influence from National Socialism to the point that it is looking a bit like a 1930's German political party.

[ATL Ebony]

117. My life is over whines Kuhn. Really? Well, guess what, so is life for Heather Heyer you POS.

[raven mad]

118. Don't tell me what you're NOT - tell me what you WILL.

[Moral Compass]

124. Doesn't that just say it all

This is what a moderate Republican is now. A card carrying racist who believes that allowing any progress by non-whites somehow diminishes his world.

He wants "to take it back".

I love that phrase. Take it back from who? When you get it back what do you intend to do with it. If you are talking about rolling back civil progress to where do you intend to roll it back? 1950? 1860? 1776?

I know that all this isn't in this particular story. But this is what is going on in these people's hearts. They have been convinced that blacks and immigrants have stolen their country from the rightful owners (whites).

Once you believe that racist, rightwing facism flowers.

[Spider Jerusalem]

125. Just a moderate Republican

and all those people chanting "blood and soil" and "Jews will not replace us" and giving Nazi salutes didn't make you think "hey maybe this isn't my sort of crowd after all"? The flyer for the event, with quasi-Nazi eagles and a stylised 1930's fascist motif, didn't give you pause? You didn't think to look up the names of the featured speakers, right there on the flyer, to find out that they consist of prominent white nationalists, racists and anti-Semites? And you're a "moderate Republican"? Uh huh. Sure.

[Yonnie3]

126. He is a LIAR!

He is pictured on the right at the Friday night racist Tiki torch march at UVa. There is no way to spin that march into pro statue activism.

[packman]

128. "Moderate Republican"???

Excuse me while I pick myself off the floor.

[BobTheSubgenius]

129. Neo-NaziModerate Republican

Talk about your razor's edge...