When Antifa Hysteria Sweeps America

[Zorro]

The panic is a measure of how deluded public discourse has become.

What can we possibly make of the crisis that unfolded in the remote Oregon seaside town of Coquille?

Coquille is a sleepy logging community of 3,800 people, almost all of them white. It is miles and miles from nowhere. Portland is 250 miles to the north. San Francisco is 500 miles to the south.

But Fox News is in a frenzy about rioters and looters, and President Trump warns about the anti-fascist movement known as antifa. So early this month as a small group of local residents planned a peaceful “Black Lives Matter” protest in Coquille, word raced around that three busloads of antifa activists were headed to Coquille to bust up the town.

The sheriff and his deputies donned bulletproof vests, prepared their MRAP armored vehicle and took up positions to fight off the invasion. Almost 200 local people, some shouldering rifles and others holding flags, gathered to protect their town (overshadowing the handful of people who had come to wave Black Lives Matter signs).

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/17/opinion/antifa-protests.html

There sure are a lot of stupid mofos in this country. Think it's one result of 50 years of Republican attacks on public education.

[madaboutharry]

1. They are like the yokels who thought Martians

were invading Earth on Halloween after hearing Orsan Welles reading The War of the Worlds.

Stupidity can be painful.

[rusty quoin]

2. And there was a Twilight Zone episode just like this. I forget which one,

but I do remember it being just like this. Everyone in a isolated town bought into a rumor that Martians were about to attack, and all Hell broke loose.

If I remember it correctly, the real Martians viewed the whole thing and concluded that these earthlings were in no way ready for contact.

[Downtown Hound]

3. The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street