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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Y'all should hear about my experience with BLM at the Boston Anti-Nazi Rally."
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Police escorted Nazis to and from the rally. Did not prevent interactions but stood close by to prevent rioting. 3/
BLM also escorted Nazis. Surrounded them to prevent fights. 4/
I want that to be crystal clear. BLM marshals were *preventing* fights from breaking out. 5/
BLM organizers have said over and over again: if a rally turns violent, POC will be targeted. Don't start none. 6/
At one point they were escorting a Nazi out of the rally near where I was standing. 7/
Nazi dropped his flag. I snatched for it. He picked it up. I yanked at it. 8/
The BLM marshal next to me whupped the back of my head. "DON'T!" 9/
At that moment he stopped me from possibly sparking a riot. 10/
I was stupid. I was ready to escalate. BLM *stopped* me. 11/
This is no surprise to anyone who has actually been to a BLM event or worked with them. 12/
But the "BLM are terrorists" narrative persists. 13/
I want everyone to understand just how bullshit this narrative is. 14/
BLM is not starting riots. They're stopping them. 15/15
Lithos
(26,403 posts)Great thread
apkhgp
(1,068 posts)People will start a narrative on anything they want.
Remember "I hate to say it people but this election is rigged". That went on and on.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)if he's accusing the other side of that, it's because his side is doing it. Pretty well turned out to be true of everything he accused Dems of.
Roland99
(53,342 posts)Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)as consistently and as blatantly as Drumpf Fuhrer!
lunasun
(21,646 posts)Just a parroting of some BS they heard so now they say it
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)the massive, well-funded, expertly run Reich Wing propaganda machine. People who are plugged in to that lie machine have no fucking clue about the truth of our country or world.
I've said this before here, but during Obama's presidency, my RW relatives talked as if they were living in some bizarre dystopian hellscape where all their freedoms had been taken away. You'd have thought there were tanks in their streets with Obama's picture on them and his henchmen were at any minute going to break down their doors and take their guns. They always sounded frantic and freaked out.
Reich Wing media did this to them. On purpose.
I no longer am in contact with those relatives, but I hear they're still obsessed with Obama, and now Hillary, and, of course, they loooooooooooove Trump.
Soxfan58
(3,479 posts)It fits into their racist narritive. And I feel there is no greater way to defeat that narritive than to prove it wrong. Well done BLM
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)volstork
(5,401 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,608 posts)Who the fuck do they think they are allowing this shit to happen over and over. I guess they all voted for the Fuhrer in Chief. They allowed the neo Nazis free reign at my anti trump rally in July and this was in blue CA!
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)but it's hard to take the disparity over how various groups are treated. A black child gets murdered for holding a fake gun in a Walmart, but the Bundy crew and these Nazis can open carry for the purpose of terrorizing others, if not worse, and the cops handle them with kid gloves.
SonofDonald
(2,050 posts)To describe what I think about that comparison, not to mention all the black men who've been shot in the back or shot while breaking no law whatsoever.
And the Bundy bunch got off Scot free in reality.
Except for the one who decided to point a gun at officers during a stop, but then again that's what he wanted, he didn't think it through, but then again it seems to be the norm for these "patriots".
One less brain donor.
I'm so flippin disgusted.
certainot
(9,090 posts)50 mil a week that BLM is a terrorist organization
it's hard to have any rational fact based discussion about any issue with that going on
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)DFW
(54,403 posts)BLM was as good as their name. They might have saved a couple of those "BL." Good for them! Even if the mass media won't pick it up, I'm glad to hear of it at all.
oasis
(49,389 posts)Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)Hannity is one of the worst!
Persondem
(1,936 posts)Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)Can't be shared too often.
leftstreet
(36,108 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)👏🏾👏👍🏾👍✌🏾✌️❣️
mia
(8,361 posts)Thank you!
jalan48
(13,869 posts)edsmith2727
(27 posts)DesertRat
(27,995 posts)Not Ruth
(3,613 posts)I just saw a video on FB of BLM protesting white supremacists. Then they walked over to them and started hugging them. Soon everyone was hugging everyone else, it looked like they might all go out together.