White Nationalists Storm Washington Bookstore Reading, Chanting 'This Land Is Our Land'
Source: HUFF POST
28/04/2019 8:38 PM IST
The group protested the author Jonathan Metzl's book reading on the same day a white supremacist gunned down a synagogue.
By Carla Herreria, HuffPost US
A small group of white nationalists stormed a book store in Washington DC to protest an event for a book on racial politics and how its impacting lower- and middle-class white Americans.
The group stormed the Politics and Prose bookstore on Saturday afternoon, interrupting a scheduled talk by Jonathan Metzl, a professor of sociology and psychiatry at Vanderbilt University who released his book Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing Americas Heartland this spring.
Videos filmed by those in attendance showed the group standing in a line before the audience chanting, this land is our land. At least one man was yelling into a megaphone while people in the bookstore booed him.
The group identified themselves as identitarians, a far-right white nationalist group which is linked to Identity Evropa, which the Southern Poverty Law Centre lists as an extremist group........................................
Read more: https://www.huffingtonpost.in/entry/white-nationalists-storm-washington-bookstore-reading-chanting-this-land-is-our-land_in_5cc5c16de4b0fd8e35bda4dd?utm_hp_ref=in-politics
I would freak out if a group like this walked in on a book lecture. damn.
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ck4829
(35,077 posts)Girard442
(6,075 posts)no_hypocrisy
(46,117 posts)underpants
(182,823 posts)Not surprised they spelled it wrong.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)bdamomma
(63,868 posts)too, he will do anything and everything to seek revenge on those who don't support him. Scary stuff is happening, it needs to stop.
groundloop
(11,519 posts)rurallib
(62,416 posts)any idea what significance that may have?
Sucha NastyWoman
(2,749 posts)Probably some stupid codeword of theirs
Hekate
(90,708 posts)yerop
(89 posts)rurallib
(62,416 posts)something new to watch out for.
Wonder if they know AIM is also the American Indian Movement - https://www.aimovement.org
ETA - I would think American Indian Movement would be the better known for the acronym AIM.
And if they were talking about birthright - well that would be the American Indian Movement.
yerop
(89 posts)not those fascist wimp palefaces.
BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)Next time, its jail time.
murielm99
(30,741 posts)bookstore talks. LOL LOL LOL.
Mike Nelson
(9,956 posts)
line... "This land is your land." The Deplorables are strange, that way... some even hold up Lincoln and MLK as heroes.
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)What do you think, Arlo?
OneBro
(1,159 posts)From the article:
The unidentified man with the megaphone continued talking as the audience booed. But we, as nationalists and identitarians, can offer the workers of this country a homeland, their birthright, in addition to health care, good jobs and so forth, he said, before leading the group in a chant.
What were they chanting as they left the room?
treestar
(82,383 posts)acronym for their fascist organization
mahina
(17,663 posts)Hekate
(90,708 posts)BigOleDummy
(2,270 posts)tend to make me ashamed of my "whiteness" to be perfectly honest. An embarrassment to an entire race imo.
Sapient Donkey
(1,568 posts)I am white dude and I don't see these sorts as having anything to do with me.
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,816 posts)America fought a war against the Nazis and supposedly won.
Yet here they are marching in Charlottesville to "take back America".
When did the Nazis have America?
iamthebandfanman
(8,127 posts)theyve always been around when being in the KKK wasnt 'cool' anymore, they jumped on the nazi train.
https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/542499/marshall-curry-nazi-rally-madison-square-garden-1939/
Sapient Donkey
(1,568 posts)*oh wait, they weren't singing the song. My bad.
Where are these idiots coming from?
JustFiveMoreMinutes
(2,133 posts)Aristus
(66,380 posts)Probably the first time the little darlings have ever been inside a bookstore...
The Genealogist
(4,723 posts)As a wingnut to leave a restaurant, right wing heads explode. Wingnuts invade a bookstore and disrupt a discussion they don't like? Crickets from the right wing. Well, we haven't from TrumpsterFire yet, and he will probably praise this.
Grokenstein
(5,723 posts)"This land is my land, this land is my land,
Mine, mine, mine, yeah, mine mine mine!
This land is my land, this land is my land,
This land was made for clowns like me!"
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)Seriously.
It was just last week, I think.
bdamomma
(63,868 posts)just like him, dividing Americans, Putin must be so proud of his Manchurian candidate.
iamthebandfanman
(8,127 posts)They got all their faces.
Fortinbras Armstrong
(4,473 posts)They dont just work in the turnip patch; they have turnips for heads.
ET Awful
(24,753 posts)the words "This Machine Kills Fascists" painted on it?
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)stillcool
(32,626 posts)phrase defines perfectly, and not at all.
rkleinberger
(155 posts)Intolerance has to be met with intolerance! Otherwise they win!
rockfordfile
(8,704 posts)Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)A quick 911, then swinging a chair.
We cannot confront these bastards with words. They aren't listening.
jcmaine72
(1,773 posts)Perhaps if we get them started with a few coloring books they can work their way up to the self-help section.