So There's a White Supremacist Rally Happening Near Me

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I check Klanwatch regularly. As Gawd is in the US that would be a good barometer for the folks he's going to see. They might not ALL be anti-semitic, but that's the way to bet.

[Bella Fortuna]

So I just learned that there is a white supremacist rally happening in my city this weekend. Apparently it is organized by the local white supremacy club and is a yearly event, complete with StormFront logos. They are going to be marching through the city streets. Never knew there were so many white supremacists that lived around me.

So you're not the only bigot in the village?

[Coito ergo sum]

They would undoubtedly hate Jews and Arabs about equally.

You could stand along the edge of the parade, holding a big banner containing pro-Palestinian and anti-Zionist messages, as an interesting form of political research...

They like Arabs better, because Arabs hate Jews so much.

[Clinton Huxley]

Supremacists think they are supreme, so whats the next step down? Penultimatists? "We're number 2 and we willl kick your head in if you disagree".

Mmm.

[Coito ergo sum]

Inferiorists take the opposite tack. They feel all other races are better than they are.

[rachelbean]

Way to go, but what are "20 holes"?

[Ian]

So I just learned that there is a white supremacist rally happening in my city this weekend. Apparently it is organized by the local white supremacy club and is a yearly event, complete with StormFront logos. They are going to be marching through the city streets. Never knew there were so many white supremacists that lived around me.

Unsurprising given the demographic makeup of your city. About 24% of the population is a visible minority (8% Filipino/south asian, 7% Chinese, 2% black, 1% latino, 1% arab, etc.). 20+% sounds like a predictable number for certain elements within the majority population to start getting pissy about it. If minorities were under 10%, few would care. More than a third or two-fifths, and cultural relations would be a major issue - and groups like these demonstrators would need a lot more guts to try and demonstrate. But minorities as one-quarter of the population seems like a golden percentage for hate groups to flaunt their ideologies in public.

[maiforpeace]

One of my favorite memories was about killing one of these rallies. Where I lived for a short time in Sunland-Tujunga,which was/is one of the hot-beds of neo nazi groups in califronia and the states in general, we (myself, and basically the commune me and my guy at the time lived in, and friends of, totalling about 10 people) saw flyers being passed around and decided to do a counter-protest. We were scared shitless but we stayed up all night making lame signs like "Unity not conformity" and the like.

We showed up the next day an hour or so before their protest was supposed to start, all of us dressed in black hoodies and most of us wearing 20 holes, not realizing that we looked quite a bit like sharps (violent anti-neo-nazis) but all of us at the time were actually pacifists. We stood there in a group with our signs and car after car pulled up...slowed down and drove away, a few times a van full of people. Over a couple hours this happened pretty consistently with at least a couple hundred people, with about 5 or 6 still deciding to go through. After a bit speakers were taken down and around the same time camera crews from local news started showing up and we pulled up our bandanas to hide our faces (you might consider it cowardly, but I wasn't quite ready to get murdered at the grocery store).

The night went on and we realized that somehow we completely ruined a white supremacist rally and we felt pretty happy. Of course we knew they would just find another park another week but at least that weekend we did something good and it felt pretty nice

Radical Rachel! Good for you, that is so cool!

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Way to go, but what are "20 holes"?

I once wore a black t-shirt, red suspenders, clod hoppers and blue jeans to Gary, Indiana. It were amusing.

[Gawd]

So I just learned that there is a white supremacist rally happening in my city this weekend. Apparently it is organized by the local white supremacy club and is a yearly event, complete with StormFront logos. They are going to be marching through the city streets. Never knew there were so many white supremacists that lived around me.

Unsurprising given the demographic makeup of your city. About 24% of the population is a visible minority (8% Filipino/south asian, 7% Chinese, 2% black, 1% latino, 1% arab, etc.). 20+% sounds like a predictable number for certain elements within the majority population to start getting pissy about it. If minorities were under 10%, few would care. More than a third or two-fifths, and cultural relations would be a major issue - and groups like these demonstrators would need a lot more guts to try and demonstrate. But minorities as one-quarter of the population seems like a golden percentage for hate groups to flaunt their ideologies in public.

So you did look up where I'm from with your mod powers. I told you that you would.

[Ian]

So I just learned that there is a white supremacist rally happening in my city this weekend. Apparently it is organized by the local white supremacy club and is a yearly event, complete with StormFront logos. They are going to be marching through the city streets. Never knew there were so many white supremacists that lived around me.

Unsurprising given the demographic makeup of your city. About 24% of the population is a visible minority (8% Filipino/south asian, 7% Chinese, 2% black, 1% latino, 1% arab, etc.). 20+% sounds like a predictable number for certain elements within the majority population to start getting pissy about it. If minorities were under 10%, few would care. More than a third or two-fifths, and cultural relations would be a major issue - and groups like these demonstrators would need a lot more guts to try and demonstrate. But minorities as one-quarter of the population seems like a golden percentage for hate groups to flaunt their ideologies in public.

So you did look up where I'm from with your mod powers. I told you that you would.

Nope. Give me some credit for having a brain. One need not be Sherlock Holmes to figure out that you're somewhere in western Canada. Your idioms/syntax place you in North America, i.e. the US or Canada, but you've mentioned that you're not in the US. And based on your posting times I figured west coast. I guessed that long before I became a mod.

Mods can't look up IP addresses as far as I know, either. Admins can. But when I became a mod, I read one of the Admin's posts about where you were from. So no, I didn't look you up. I read it in passing.

[Gawd]

They would undoubtedly hate Jews and Arabs about equally.

You could stand along the edge of the parade, holding a big banner containing pro-Palestinian and anti-Zionist messages, as an interesting form of political research...

I remember reading somewhere that in prison, white supremacists and Jews team up together for protection from other ethnic groups. These were about US prisons.

Neo-Nazis teaming up with Jews. Even for you that's amazingly absurd.

American Jews ARE white folk, it's not absurd at all. There is zero difference in appearance from an American Jew compared to a white person.

[sandinista]

So I just learned that there is a white supremacist rally happening in my city this weekend. Apparently it is organized by the local white supremacy club and is a yearly event, complete with StormFront logos. They are going to be marching through the city streets. Never knew there were so many white supremacists that lived around me.

Unsurprising given the demographic makeup of your city. About 24% of the population is a visible minority (8% Filipino/south asian, 7% Chinese, 2% black, 1% latino, 1% arab, etc.). 20+% sounds like a predictable number for certain elements within the majority population to start getting pissy about it. If minorities were under 10%, few would care. More than a third or two-fifths, and cultural relations would be a major issue - and groups like these demonstrators would need a lot more guts to try and demonstrate. But minorities as one-quarter of the population seems like a golden percentage for hate groups to flaunt their ideologies in public.

So you did look up where I'm from with your mod powers. I told you that you would.

Nope. Give me some credit for having a brain. One need not be Sherlock Holmes to figure out that you're somewhere in western Canada. Your idioms/syntax place you in North America, i.e. the US or Canada, but you've mentioned that you're not in the US. And based on your posting times I figured west coast. I guessed that long before I became a mod.

Mods can't look up IP addresses as far as I know, either. Admins can. But when I became a mod, I read one of the Admin's posts about where you were from. So no, I didn't look you up. I read it in passing.

So...you figured it out from his "posting times" and "idioms" OR you read his location from an admins post? Sorry Ian, sounds like

[Gawdzilla Sama]

They would undoubtedly hate Jews and Arabs about equally.

You could stand along the edge of the parade, holding a big banner containing pro-Palestinian and anti-Zionist messages, as an interesting form of political research...

I remember reading somewhere that in prison, white supremacists and Jews team up together for protection from other ethnic groups. These were about US prisons.

Neo-Nazis teaming up with Jews. Even for you that's amazingly absurd.

American Jews ARE white folk, it's not absurd at all. There is zero difference in appearance from an American Jew compared to a white person.

You get sillier every time you post.

[Ian]

They would undoubtedly hate Jews and Arabs about equally.

You could stand along the edge of the parade, holding a big banner containing pro-Palestinian and anti-Zionist messages, as an interesting form of political research...

I remember reading somewhere that in prison, white supremacists and Jews team up together for protection from other ethnic groups. These were about US prisons.

Neo-Nazis teaming up with Jews. Even for you that's amazingly absurd.

American Jews ARE white folk, it's not absurd at all. There is zero difference in appearance from an American Jew compared to a white person.

Maybe so. But I for one can spot a Michigan fan a mile away just by the stupid look on his face.