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Before and after the Manhattan brawl, GOP figures defended and promoted the far-right group. Its a valuable and dangerous bridge between fascism and mainstream politics.Kelly Weill, Will Sommer 10.16.18 4:43 AM ET
The fight wasnt a random clash, though: The Proud Boys were in Manhattan thanks to an invite from the Metropolitan Republican Club.
In a speech at the club, which was vandalized before the event, Proud Boys leader Gavin McInnes waved a sword at anti-fascist protesters and celebrated the assassination of a socialist Japanese politician. McInnes, a Vice co-founder, dressed up as the Japanese assassin who killed the politician, complete with glasses that made his eyes into a racist caricature of a Japanese persons eyes.
It was a bizarre event to host at the GOPs Manhattan clubhouse, but the Metropolitan Republican Club defended McInnes and the Proud Boys after the fight. In a statement released Sunday, the club said McInnes speech was certainly not inciting violence.
The Republican clubs role hosting the event highlights how the Proud Boys have managed to insinuate themselves with mainstream Republicans, even as they increasingly make the news for their violence. But the New York Republicans arent alonethe Proud Boys have already managed to make their way into other mainstream GOP campaign events and conservative media.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/republicans-are-adopting-the-proud-boys
JHan
(10,173 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)To attack liberals and anyone else trying to stop republican fascism.
A page right out of Hitlers playbook.
VOX
(22,976 posts)This provides an excellent crash course on these miserable wretches.
https://www.vox.com/2018/10/15/17978358/proud-boys-gavin-mcinnes-manhattan-gop-violence
The Proud Boys, the bizarre far-right street fighters behind violence in New York, explained
They hate Muslims and refuse to masturbate: Meet the shock troops of the weirdo right.
By Jane Coaston Oct 15, 2018
On Friday night on the streets of Manhattan, members of a far-right organization kicked and punched counterprotesters they believed to be members of Antifa and werent arrested.
The brawl between the Proud Boys and counterprotesters started outside the Metropolitical Republican Club, where the groups founder, Gavin McInnes, was reenacting the assassination of Inejiro Asanuma, the leader of the Japanese Socialist Party, in 1960.
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workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)The NYPD are sure taking their time rounding up these racist pieces of excrement.
Thanks for the info.
VOX
(22,976 posts)The very idea of fascism having ANY appeal in the United States (or anywhere, for that matter) makes me want to spew. If ANYONE is to be kicked out of the country, start with these losers. Give em to Putin, order them to finish the Chernobyl clean-up.
They really need to move on.