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Where Have All the Nazis Gone?
Hopkins, CJ
http://consentfactory.org/2018/08/17/where-have-all-the-nazis-goneDate Written: 2018-08-17 Publisher: Consent Factory, Inc Year Published: 2018 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX22946 Thousands of "anti-fascist" protestors converged on the streets of the nation's capitol to deny a platform to (or just beat the snot out of) twenty or thirty racist idiots who were trying to assemble in Lafayette Square and stand around shouting racist slogans at each other. Abstract: - Excerpt: Last Sunday was a bit less dramatic. Basically, these twenty or thirty racists were escorted by hundreds of riot police and Secret Service to Lafayette Square, where they found themselves surrounded by thousands of protesters, many of whom intended to stomp their guts out. This must have been a bit unsettling, because the racists reportedly fled their own "rally" before they had even had the chance to holler any Nazi gibberish at each other. This was extremely disappointing for the militant "anti-fascist" contingent, which had been counting on another balls-out street fight. According to The New York Times, a group of frustrated militant types tried to burn a Confederate flag, but it wouldn’t catch fire, so they were forced to rip it apart with their hands and jump up and down on it. Other militant "anti-fascists" threw anti-Nazi eggs at the cops, presumably as a form of "preventative self-defense," or just to ensure that Breitbart had some video to paint them as "terrorists" with. The not-quite-so-militant "anti-fascist" contingent, most of whom never even caught a glimpse of the "emboldened" Nazis they had come to resist, apparently dispersed without incident. The corporate media and the rest of the Resistance had been flogging this event for months. That infamous photo of the tikki torch Nazis had been repeatedly reprinted all summer long. Features on Kessler, the organizer, whose activities seem to have been mostly funded by his grandmother, with whom he had also been living, had been published in major international broadsheets. The coverage peaked going into the weekend. On Saturday, he was featured on National Public Radio, where he shared his views on "racial intelligence." Go ahead, google him, and marvel at the amount of free publicity bestowed on this geek. And it wasn't just the corporate media. No, the militant "anti-fascist" left had also been also promoting this so-called "rally" as the Return of the Revenge of the Bride of Charlottesville. Affinity groups had been activated. "Anti-fascist" posters had been printed. Militant Twitter hashtags created. Snappy "anti-fascist" slogans, like "It takes a bullet to bash the fash," and "Drive out Trump/Pence fascist regime," had been applied to signs and banners. By Sunday morning, social media was buzzing with thousands of tweets and posts by people hoping to "punch a Nazi." Antifa was obviously looking forward to some hardcore "preventative self-defense" … all they needed were a few hundred Nazis. Subject Headings |