Why would we want to do that in the first place?
Anyone on the right who is incapable of seeing Milo for what he is either hasn’t really looked at what he’s said and done or is willfully ignoring it. So they’re either ignorant or ok with his hate speech. If the former, tell them to go read his stuff in detail if you care to. If the latter, we’re down to bats and bricks.
If you look at how Hitler operated, early on he demonized Jews, and talked about the Jewish Question, but he talked in terms of conspiracy theories, segregation, deportation, just the kinds of things Trump and the alt-right scum like Milo are talking about. When the Nazis established Dacahu in '33 it was for political prisoners. It was only in 1941, years after Hitler was in power, that the Nazis started implementing the Final Solution to the Jewish Question, and they installed the ovens and poison gas showers to convert concentration camps to death camps. If you give far-right racist nationalists an inch, they’ll take a mile. They’re telegraphing their hate, openness to violence against those they hate and will to subjugate them to second class citizens all the time.
While the new fascists are trying to normalize far-right nationalist racism by giving Milo a bullhorn, if you’re not onboard with the prospect of institutional persecution of minorities, now is the time to stand up against them. With the last few years of targeted hate, demonizing of minorities, and mob attacks on women, PoC, and other targeted groups they do not deserve any benefit of the doubt, and anything that amplifies their message is toxic to a peaceful pluralistic society.
Speaking of which:
http://www.npr.org/2017/01/31/512592783/trump-advisers-have-made-anti-muslim-comments-in-the-past
Language in that sound familiar? Looks like “cancer” is the new “rats”.
Free speech? Was Milo waiving his usual speaker’s fee?
If not, whose money or budget was going to pay for him?
Campus Republicans, who apparently exist at Berkeley. I don’t think he charged a fee this time though.
Freebees for all university appearances, because he seems rather mercenary? Are the groups that invite him student groups or what? Do they get funding from the Student Union, and do they have to open their books?
Students would have a gripe if it was their money paying him, and also if it was outside money paying his way on to campus.
I don’t know the details. It was the formal campus Republicans student group that invited him to speak.
I can’t find the article now, but I’d read that he has billionaire backers who are happy to fund sending him to college campuses to agitate and stir conflicts. Once the Young Republicans invite him to speak, a university’s in a no-win situation which is what the fascists are angling for, so they can pull garbage like this:
Please link the post where somebody shouted that in this thread, so I can flag it.
Or are you just driving trollies by claiming people said things they didn’t?
Can you image being so desperate for attention that you’re reduced to trolling the staff of Buffalo Wild Wings?
Don’t be naive.
See, I would never call anyone who defends or downplays Milo’s M.O. as “naive”.
“Full of shit” is more accurate.
Good luck getting spit free food at just about any restaurant in the future there Milo.
Right?
Cardinal freakin’ rule, dude…
Roy: While he was eating, did you hear anyone laughing? Like… in the kitchen area?
Jen: Yes! Yes I did, actually, yes I did.
Roy: That’d be trouser food!
You’re right! It actually is about ethics in race realism.
Garbage will suffice.
Funny. I thought they were just there to periodically remind everyone how much it would suck to live in an anarchist society.
In this case? Probably a conspiracy theory. I have a feeling most people don’t really understand the black bloc or haven’t spent any time around them. We’re talking about a bunch of anarchists who self-organize into small highly independent affinity groups to aggressively combat “fascism” (which is far more broad than actual Fascism).
There are some anarchists who participate in bloc actions that fetishize violence and destruction and find affinity groups that share their interest. The rest give them cover to do so without risk of prosecution. The targets usually make sense at least tangentially to their idea of combating “fascism” (the way they define is far broader than actual Fascism).
This particular bloc action was announced months ago by a bunch of local block action sites like Berkeley Antifa, NoCARA and Its Going Down.
Hell, NoCARA doxxed a bunch of Berkeley college republicans a month ago leading up to it.
There are even a couple accounts from people who were part of the black bloc including one with a specific account of a guy in a Trump hat who was apparently attacked because he pulled a knife and another involving attacks on some sort of neo-Nazi group.
It doesn’t take a lot of imagination to see that a girl in the Trump hat - especially when she was on camera spreading her views - would be an excellent target for someone trying to strike against fascists.
Hell, you can see someone from the black bloc staring at her, look down at a phone, then continue staring at her. If that wasn’t someone either calling for bloc action or being called to action, then I don’t know what is.
And attacking the police? They’re authoritarians who literally wear Jackboots. They’re a prime target. There are almost always black bloc groups that skirmish with the police.
(I am not a member of the alt-right (or the right). I’m just not comfortable with people on the Left falling into the conspiracy theory black hole.)
No it’s not.
Fascists say that people should die for traits they can’t change about themselves due to things like genetics.
Liberals do not advocate that.
If your morality says that people are worthless because of things like skin color and genetics, then you are fucking evil and wrong.
It’s already been posted multiple times in this thread. If you can’t bother to click on the magnifying glass and type a few characters, then there’s no point in engaging with you.
