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riversedge

(70,239 posts)
Sun Apr 28, 2019, 11:26 AM Apr 2019

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 it’s 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 America’s 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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White Nationalists Storm Washington Bookstore Reading, Chanting 'This Land Is Our Land' (Original Post) riversedge Apr 2019 OP
Disgusting. Need to spray the bookstore down now. ck4829 Apr 2019 #1
Buying a book as a protest isn't my thing, except maybe now it is. Girard442 Apr 2019 #2
Their actions prove the premise of the book. no_hypocrisy Apr 2019 #3
More like Idiotarians underpants Apr 2019 #4
Just wait until rump tells them to start shooting us, and he will Eliot Rosewater Apr 2019 #5
He will bdamomma Apr 2019 #40
Clearly an honest misunderstanding, I'm sure there are fine people on both sides of this. groundloop Apr 2019 #6
What were they saying as they walked out? Sounded like "Abe." rurallib Apr 2019 #7
I was wondering the same thing. Sucha NastyWoman Apr 2019 #11
Possibly short for Abraham, and if so, likely code for Jew. Morons. Dangerous morons. nt Hekate Apr 2019 #14
"AIM AIM" American Identitarian Movement a fascist organization. nt yerop Apr 2019 #16
Thanks so much rurallib Apr 2019 #19
Wow! Wish I had thought of that. Yes the other (real) AIM (the Native Americans) have the birthright yerop May 2019 #43
Trespass their asses... BlueIdaho Apr 2019 #8
Real men go disrupt murielm99 Apr 2019 #9
How they neglect the next obvious... Mike Nelson Apr 2019 #10
I don't think Woody G. would appreciate their using his song. rickyhall Apr 2019 #13
Well, who wouldn't want some "and so forth?" OneBro Apr 2019 #12
see post 16 treestar Apr 2019 #18
And a threat. mahina Apr 2019 #32
Well, they are Nazis, doing what Nazis do. Next up: shattered shop windows. nt Hekate Apr 2019 #15
People like this... BigOleDummy Apr 2019 #17
That gives them too much power. If you're nothing like them, then they don't represent you Sapient Donkey Apr 2019 #23
All young white males. Of course. Their 'white' manhood is being threatened. YOHABLO Apr 2019 #20
When did the Nazis have America? keithbvadu2 Apr 2019 #21
unfortunately iamthebandfanman Apr 2019 #31
They seem to be missing the point of that song. Sapient Donkey Apr 2019 #22
There is HOPE after all.. White Nationalists know where a BookStore is! n/t JustFiveMoreMinutes Apr 2019 #24
You beat me to it. Aristus Apr 2019 #28
I guess this is more of that famous right wing civility The Genealogist Apr 2019 #25
Thanks for the free publicity, identiturds! Grokenstein Apr 2019 #26
After this little stunt, were they all surprised that their dicks were still tiny? CTyankee Apr 2019 #27
Trump said that in a speech just recently: "This land is yours, not theirs." Grasswire2 Apr 2019 #29
That's disgusting bdamomma Apr 2019 #41
Nice. iamthebandfanman Apr 2019 #30
Right off the troglodyte truck. Fortinbras Armstrong Apr 2019 #33
So fascists walk into a place chanting lyrics from the best known song of a guy whose guitar had ET Awful Apr 2019 #34
"Economic anxieties" strike again Blue_Tires Apr 2019 #35
Amazing how that.. stillcool Apr 2019 #37
Did the bookstore press charges? And if not why not? rkleinberger Apr 2019 #36
I agree. Who are these people? rockfordfile Apr 2019 #38
I could not have just sat in my seat. Haggis for Breakfast Apr 2019 #39
On the plus side, it's probably the first time any of them have ever been inside a bookstore. jcmaine72 Apr 2019 #42

bdamomma

(63,868 posts)
40. He will
Mon Apr 29, 2019, 07:20 PM
Apr 2019

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.

rurallib

(62,416 posts)
7. What were they saying as they walked out? Sounded like "Abe."
Sun Apr 28, 2019, 12:04 PM
Apr 2019

any idea what significance that may have?

rurallib

(62,416 posts)
19. Thanks so much
Sun Apr 28, 2019, 01:42 PM
Apr 2019

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)
43. Wow! Wish I had thought of that. Yes the other (real) AIM (the Native Americans) have the birthright
Thu May 2, 2019, 12:36 PM
May 2019

not those fascist wimp palefaces.

Mike Nelson

(9,956 posts)
10. How they neglect the next obvious...
Sun Apr 28, 2019, 12:29 PM
Apr 2019

… line... "This land is your land." The Deplorables are strange, that way... some even hold up Lincoln and MLK as heroes.

OneBro

(1,159 posts)
12. Well, who wouldn't want some "and so forth?"
Sun Apr 28, 2019, 12:46 PM
Apr 2019

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?

BigOleDummy

(2,270 posts)
17. People like this...
Sun Apr 28, 2019, 01:23 PM
Apr 2019

… tend to make me ashamed of my "whiteness" to be perfectly honest. An embarrassment to an entire race imo.

Sapient Donkey

(1,568 posts)
23. That gives them too much power. If you're nothing like them, then they don't represent you
Sun Apr 28, 2019, 02:33 PM
Apr 2019

I am white dude and I don't see these sorts as having anything to do with me.

keithbvadu2

(36,816 posts)
21. When did the Nazis have America?
Sun Apr 28, 2019, 02:18 PM
Apr 2019

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?

Sapient Donkey

(1,568 posts)
22. They seem to be missing the point of that song.
Sun Apr 28, 2019, 02:28 PM
Apr 2019

*oh wait, they weren't singing the song. My bad.

Where are these idiots coming from?

The Genealogist

(4,723 posts)
25. I guess this is more of that famous right wing civility
Sun Apr 28, 2019, 03:49 PM
Apr 2019

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)
26. Thanks for the free publicity, identiturds!
Sun Apr 28, 2019, 03:50 PM
Apr 2019

"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!"

Grasswire2

(13,571 posts)
29. Trump said that in a speech just recently: "This land is yours, not theirs."
Mon Apr 29, 2019, 01:13 AM
Apr 2019

Seriously.

It was just last week, I think.

bdamomma

(63,868 posts)
41. That's disgusting
Mon Apr 29, 2019, 10:22 PM
Apr 2019

just like him, dividing Americans, Putin must be so proud of his Manchurian candidate.

ET Awful

(24,753 posts)
34. So fascists walk into a place chanting lyrics from the best known song of a guy whose guitar had
Mon Apr 29, 2019, 08:22 AM
Apr 2019

the words "This Machine Kills Fascists" painted on it?

rkleinberger

(155 posts)
36. Did the bookstore press charges? And if not why not?
Mon Apr 29, 2019, 12:04 PM
Apr 2019

Intolerance has to be met with intolerance! Otherwise they win!

Haggis for Breakfast

(6,831 posts)
39. I could not have just sat in my seat.
Mon Apr 29, 2019, 07:06 PM
Apr 2019

A quick 911, then swinging a chair.

We cannot confront these bastards with words. They aren't listening.

jcmaine72

(1,773 posts)
42. On the plus side, it's probably the first time any of them have ever been inside a bookstore.
Tue Apr 30, 2019, 03:55 AM
Apr 2019

Perhaps if we get them started with a few coloring books they can work their way up to the self-help section.

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