Nazi Boston Tea Party

[Okeefenokee]

Forty thousand counter protesters march against a free speech demonstration,

[Dand]

Props to Boston for facilitating a relatively peaceful day.

Forty thousand counter protesters march against a free speech demonstration,

Me in the bottom right.

[pineapplemike]

What flag is that on the left?

[de officiis]

Forty thousand counter protesters march against a free speech demonstration,

Those people are terrifying!

[pineapplemike]

"Fascism cannot be defeated through speech"

is this true? skip to 5:00 for relevant line

[Ex-California]

Tim Pool and Sargon both had great takes on the whole situation

[Kazmyr]

"Fascism cannot be defeated through speech"

is this true? skip to 5:00 for relevant line

What an absolute fucking clown. All you gotta do is throw a 'facism' label on it and the violence is justified?

This guy can go get fucked.

[PartyOf5]

Sounds like it isn't impossible to have these things blow up into violence like Charlottesville. Was this rally marketed as just free speech and portrayed as nazi or was it another nazi based one?

That's what I'd like clarified. The way this was portrayed in the MSM, this was another KKK/Neo-Nazi gathering. I'm not so sure, and would like to knwo the truth.

This is headed down a dangerous path. It starts with one target and then snowballs into the next and then the next, etc.. Pretty soon these leftist sheep will be targeting those standing beside them at their own protests.

[Hanarchy Montanarchy]

First they came for the Nazis, and I did nothing...

[Kazmyr]

Sounds like it isn't impossible to have these things blow up into violence like Charlottesville. Was this rally marketed as just free speech and portrayed as nazi or was it another nazi based one?

That's what I'd like clarified. The way this was portrayed in the MSM, this was another KKK/Neo-Nazi gathering. I'm not so sure, and would like to knwo the truth.

This is headed down a dangerous path. It starts with one target and then snowballs into the next and then the next, etc.. Pretty soon these leftist sheep will be targeting those standing beside them at their own protests.

The organizer initially wanted this to be a true 'free speech' rally and was leaving attendance open to whomever wanted to speak. He, and the other organizers started to waffle a bit about who was speaking. But, bottom line: this guy is most certainly not some neo-nazi mastermind:

Medlar acknowledged that at least one white nationalist group has been trying to use the rally to insert itself. But he distanced the coalition from that group or any group that espouses violence.

“We denounce the politics of supremacy and violence. We denounce the actions, activities, and tactics of the so-called Antifa (militant leftists) movement. We denounce the normalization of political violence,’’ the group’s Facebook posting said.

One of the Virginia rally’s speakers and another “alt-right” member who attended it were also invited to speak at the Boston event months ago. Both are no longer speaking.

Just last week, a rally led by neo-Nazis, white supremacists, and white racists led to bloodshed in Charlottesville, Va. Immediately after, there was worry on social media that the speakers who police said incite violent and hate would also speak on the Common.

Amid the uproar, Medlar said the Boston rally organizers were unsure how to respond and panicked. They wavered over whether to continue with their rally or cancel it.

In the confusion, he added, one of the group’s six organizers notified headliner Augustus Invictus, an Orlando activist who took part in the Charlottesville rally, to not to come to Boston. Invictus attracted support from white supremacists when he ran for the US Senate as a Libertarian in Florida in 2016. He told the Globe this week that organizers said they were worried about statements he has made espousing support for a “second American civil war.”

Tensions between Invictus and the group soared.

“We do not support him due to his willingness to support violence, as well as his Holocaust denial,’’ said one member who would only identify himself as Louis. “So he has been disinvited, and he has pulled out.”

Who is the Boston Free Speech Coalition behind Saturday’s rally?

For a group of people so focused on the 'intricacies and fluidity of multiple genders/sexualities,' their political views are startlingly binary. You're either protesting against 'facist, neo-nazi assholes' or you're said facist neo-nazi asshole, who needs a beating.