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There Will be Blood: Boston's Straight Pride Parade.

Thermal said:
*colonists throwing cases of tea into the harbor glance up*
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I'm pretty sure there was more than one injury at the Fragile Masculinity Parade. The Boston Tea Party was a fairly civilized affair given what it was.

https://www.bostonteapartyship.com/boston-tea-party-facts

There was only one person injured in the event (and they mistakenly thought he was dead).
John Crane was thought to be dead when he was knocked unconscious during the Boston Tea Party. His fellow patriots hid him under a pile of wood shavings in a nearby shop. He regained consciousness a few hours later and was the only person injured during the protest.
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halleyscomet said:
This event is not in and of itself enough to justify calling them Nazis. The organizers themselves however have a long history with the more toxic aspects of the alt-right community. For example:

https://www.vox.com/identities/2019/7/1/18761623/straight-pride


While not necessarily Nazis in the literal, "They call themselves that" sense the event was organized by people who are players in groups who are ideologically aligned with most American Nazi groups. While calling them "Nazis" is a tad hyperbolic, it's a perfectly justifiable shorthand for describing their actual politics.



I'd say that's a rather large assumption given how small the parade was. "A few hundred" isn't that big, especially for an event that's been getting this much national attention for as long as it has. The politics of the organizers have been at the forefront of a lot of that coverage. Anyone who marched in that parade either knew exactly who they were aligning themselves with or are so profoundly clueless and ignorant that they're among the sort who will happily go along with a totalitarian government as long as it says it hates the same people they do and shouts "Praise Jesus" every now and then. If you want to be pedantic about it, we could call the marchers "Nazis, Nazi-sympathizers and useful idiots."
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This, 1,000 times over. The Incelebration March was meaningless. But even Milo was there in a MAGA hat (pictured upthread) and Trump banners all over. This was a thinly disguised Klan Bake, and like Charlottesville and elsewhere, might have turned out very differently if the counterprotestors were not out in superior numbers.
 
uke2se said:
How do you raise someone to be straight?
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There was an article I read many years ago, which may or may not have been parody, which gave advice on how to raise your son to not become gay. It required a real balancing act. The two points that I still remember:
Don't let your son engage in traditonally female hobbies like arts and crafts or quietly sitting reading, but also don't let him engage in sweaty full-contact homoerotic sports like football or wrestling.
Don't live in big cities, because they're full of homosexuals who will try to recruit your son, but also don't live way out in the wilderness, because those areas contain roving homosexual rape gangs. The article specifically cited "Deliverance" as if it were a documentary.
 
cullennz said:
Which logically would mean you think every one who voted for Trump not first finding out what a racist, misogynistic scumbag he is, should be labelled a racist, misogynistic scumbag.
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I mean, there's plenty of history for Trump going back to the mid-70's when he got pegged for not renting to POC, to the parkland 5, etc. that would have given them evidence. People from New York City are shocked everyone else didn't know what Trump was about before he got elected.
 
plague311 said:
I mean, there's plenty of history for Trump going back to the mid-70's when he got pegged for not renting to POC, to the parkland 5, etc. that would have given them evidence. People from New York City are shocked everyone else didn't know what Trump was about before he got elected.
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Or just paid attention to his campaign.
 
plague311 said:
I mean, there's plenty of history for Trump going back to the mid-70's when he got pegged for not renting to POC, to the parkland 5, etc. that would have given them evidence. People from New York City are shocked everyone else didn't know what Trump was about before he got elected.
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There was something about birtherism, too. He was on the national stage bravely Jim Crowing a sitting President.

No one can seriously say his racism was not worn openly after the first public howling for a long-form birth certificate, which no one, including Trump, actually has.
 
It looks like most of the violence started with the police attacking protestors, and there was one man who supposedly stood out as present at just about every such incident:

Captain John Danilecki presents a Clear and Present Danger to Boston

Did this guy have a bandoleer of pepper spray canisters?

This police captain appeared to be the primary user of pepper spray in at least three different cases where the crowd was either peaceful, or otherwise retreating; and was actively participating in several scrums that resulted in participants being pushed to the ground. He reportedly punched a protester, triggering a violent melee in which at least 4 people were left on the ground. He was shown assaulting at multiple observers who were doing nothing other than standing nearby while officers were performing an arrest. He was in the front lines in almost every incident of violence, with the exception of those who (earlier in the day) blocked the unnecessary large line of police motorcycles.

Captain Danilecki was a menace and a danger to the community on Saturday, plain and simple. I truly believe that were it not for his behavior yesterday, the protest would have been a largely unremarkable event: there would have been no use of pepper spray, no violent altercations, and many fewer arrests. While there were minor clashes and incidents of violence throughout the day, every major incident involved exactly one person: Officer Danilecki.
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halleyscomet said:
I'd say that's a rather large assumption given how small the parade was. "A few hundred" isn't that big, especially for an event that's been getting this much national attention for as long as it has.
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Good point. I was at a political march and rally on Saturday in Bristol UK. The organisers only announced it via social media on Thursday yet they still got a few thousand participants despite the weather being dire at the start. A few hundred to such a well publicised event is very poor.
 
Armitage72 said:
Don't let your son engage in traditonally female hobbies like arts and crafts or quietly sitting reading, but also don't let him engage in sweaty full-contact homoerotic sports like football or wrestling.
Don't live in big cities, because they're full of homosexuals who will try to recruit your son, but also don't live way out in the wilderness, because those areas contain roving homosexual rape gangs. The article specifically cited "Deliverance" as if it were a documentary.
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I read an awful lot as a very young boy and grew up in a big city and never left. I guess I should have been at least bi! I think that single mothers were considered to be another 'risk factor', and I had one of those, too!
Wikipedia actually mentions "Urban setting": "In Denmark, people born in the capital area were significantly less likely to marry heterosexually, and more likely to marry homosexually, than their rural-born peers." However, I suspect that this is because our "rural-born peers" with homosexual inclinations tend to flee to Copenhagen as soon as they are able to do so. :)

This article, Is your child a "prehomosexual"? Forecasting adult sexual orientation (Scientific American blog, Sep. 5, 2010), written by a gay man, says that, "young prehomosexual males are attracted to solitary sports, such as swimming, cycling, or tennis, over rougher contact sports, such as football or soccer."
 
Thermal said:
There was something about birtherism, too. He was on the national stage bravely Jim Crowing a sitting President.
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Same with his misogamy. He cheated on wife A publicly with B, etc. Not even kind of privately. It was blatant and in the open. He's also had a myriad of degrading comments about females. Calling them dogs, implying that whenever they're made it's because they're having their period, and more.
 
The Don said:
Good point. I was at a political march and rally on Saturday in Bristol UK. The organisers only announced it via social media on Thursday yet they still got a few thousand participants despite the weather being dire at the start. A few hundred to such a well publicised event is very poor.
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Likewise in Manchester.

ETA: there were 250 in Clitheroe. And a large crowd in Buxton.
 
A couple hundred is all that these right-wing agitators can ever really manage to muster in Boston. The city allows their permits, so there's no avenue for suing the city, and the police don't let them fight, so there's no glory in bashing antifa. The right's attempt of provocation in Boston have been a series of failures so far.
 
SuburbanTurkey said:
A couple hundred is all that these right-wing agitators can ever really manage to muster in Boston. The city allows their permits, so there's no avenue for suing the city, and the police don't let them fight, so there's no glory in bashing antifa. The right's attempt of provocation in Boston have been a series of failures so far.
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Yea the hard core alt right seems to be a lot more west coast than east. Its why the white supremacist conferences do better out there than in NYC for example.
 
halleyscomet said:
It looks like most of the violence started with the police attacking protestors, and there was one man who supposedly stood out as present at just about every such incident:

Captain John Danilecki presents a Clear and Present Danger to Boston

Did this guy have a bandoleer of pepper spray canisters?
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I skimmed the article.
I don't know who wrote that but I think I can guess their agenda.

Contrast to this AFP article published by Yahoo! News:
US police fire pepper spray after pro-Trump 'Straight Pride' parade

Boston (AFP) - US police fired pepper spray Saturday after counter-demonstrators accused them of protecting "Straight Pride" advocates who support President Donald Trump, and refused to let officers re-open a road.
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Before the more serious unrest, a couple of counter-demonstrators scuffled with police and threw dirt and eggs at them.
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I wasn't there, so I don't know, but I'm a bit skeptical of these reports.

The job of the police was to prevent violence between the sides by keeping them separate and to restore order (re-open the roads) after it was over. Throwing dirt and eggs at the police, berating them for just doing what they're supposed to do, is not nice.
 
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