So the Alt-Right is coming to your campus

[anon81034786]

This one might be better

[sosumi]

Is there nothing to keep uninvited groups of non students off the grounds of the university?

[anon61221983]

Not in my experience. We get the anti-choice group setting up their bloody displays ever year and we also get the right wing christian anti-gay bible thumpers coming to tell the students how they are all going to hell.

Private universities may have more recourse than a public university like mine.

[anon48584343]

@sosumi

Is there nothing to keep uninvited groups of non students off the grounds of the university?

[One_Brown_Mouse]

@Max_Blancke

Both groups

@Max_Blancke

both sides

@Max_Blancke

both groups

I can tell that you see a lot of similarities between these two groups. I was wondering though, which of the two is generally armed and armored. Follow up, how heavy a chip on ones shoulder can one bear?

[anon15383236]

[Wanderfound]

@generic_name

A nice bit of counter protest to the Charlottesville rally would have been a black, a Muslim, a Jew and a white person, mixed genders, coming out and setting up a table right in front of them, sitting down, pouring some tea and eating cake quietly.

They very likely would have been beaten bloody if not forcefully defended.

Cornel West & Rev. Traci Blackmon: Clergy in Charlottesville Were Trapped...

CORNEL WEST: Absolutely. You had a number of the courageous students, of all colors, at the University of Virginia who were protesting against the neofascists themselves. The neofascists had their own ammunition. And this is very important to keep in mind, because the police, for the most part, pulled back. The next day, for example, those 20 of us who were standing, many of them clergy, we would have been crushed like cockroaches if it were not for the anarchists and the antifascists who approached, over 300, 350 antifascists. We just had 20. And we’re singing “This Little light of Mine,” you know what I mean? So that the—

AMY GOODMAN: “Antifa” meaning antifascist.

CORNEL WEST: The antifascists, and then, crucial, the anarchists, because they saved our lives, actually. We would have been completely crushed, and I’ll never forget that. Meaning what? Meaning that you had the police holding back, on the one hand, so we couldn’t even get arrested. We were there to get arrested. We couldn’t get arrested, because the police had pulled back, and just allowing fellow citizens to go at each other, you see, and with all of the consequences that would follow therefrom.

[Max_Blancke]

Armed leftists at Charlottesville-

I don’t want anyone I care about to be anywhere near any of the groups that were there. The violence is only going to get worse.

[ChuckV]

@Max_Blancke

I don’t want anyone I care about to be anywhere near any of the groups that were there. The violence is only going to get worse.

Are left leaning groups who show up at protests “generally armed and armored”? This is a small handful of people. Oh, by the way, how many did they kill?

[Chaz1]

@doctorow

Use the Women’s March in Washington as a template.

Good point. DId you recall a crazed woman driving a car through counter-protesters? Netiher did I.

[anon48584343]

Texas A&M cancels ‘White Lives Matter’ rally

[anon15383236]

Congrats, you finally found some (if in fact that’s even what they are).

Your false equivalencies are pathetic. You’re hurting yourself, and probably people around you too, by getting worked up about the supposed threat of Marxists and Stalinists and so on. Do you have ulcers? If so, letting go of these baseless fears could help alleviate them.

If only “the left” in the U.S. were anywhere near as organized as your fantasies make them out to be!

[Kimmo]

@generic_name

They went to Charlottesville ostensibly to protest the removal of a Gen. Robert E. Lee statue. Ironically I suspect the violence and media frenzy from this weekend will finally convince the city council to remove the statue

The council should now dip the statue in sewage, before obliterating it with a 50cal machine gun.

[Kimmo]

@Max_Blancke

Armed leftists at Charlottesville

@Wanderfound

CORNEL WEST: The antifascists, and then, crucial, the anarchists, because they saved our lives, actually. We would have been completely crushed, and I’ll never forget that.

You’re sickening, you know that?

[One_Brown_Mouse]

Fear is the mind killer, be well.

[anon36155390]

Can anyone help me understand why “antifa” is used as a term of derision by the fascists, but is a natural, normal state for the rest of us? Isn’t everyone normally anti fascist?

[smulder]

@anon36155390

Isn’t everyone normally anti fascist?

Teach the controversy! Both sides do it! Stalin was worse! What about her emails! Benghazi!

[One_Brown_Mouse]

@smulder

Teach the controversy! Both sides do it! Stalin was worse! What about her emails! Benghazi!

This calls for more research

[anon15383236]

@Kimmo

The council should now dip the statue in sewage, before obliterating it with a 50cal machine gun.

Or just spit on it. And then appropriately salute it.

8/14, Durham, NC.

The statue represented a soldier who fought in the Civil War. An inscription on the front read “The Confederate States of America.”

[mindfu]

The fascists, at least one. Also it’s been reported that police didn’t intervene because they didn’t want to deal with militia who were better armed.

That’s the fault of the local police for not following through anyway. But it doesn’t help the case for the peacefulness of the alt-right demonstrators.

Those opposing fascists will arm if that’s what has to be. And arming will be the right thing to do, if it comes to that point. Hopefully the police in other locations will be more professional, including making sure they’re equipped to keep the peace if they aren’t equipped already.