Knights for Socialism? I guess they don't see the irony in using that term for themselves...de officiis wrote:'Leftist Fight Club' trains UCF students to fight Republicans
Oh my. We really are going off the deep end...The “Knights for Socialism” group at the University of Central Florida (UCF) held a workshop Sunday to teach left-wing students how to “BASH THE FASH” with a “Leftist Fight Club” open to everyone but Republicans.
“In response to the record number of hate crimes against Latinxs, Immigrants, Muslims, Women, the LGBTQIA+ community, Jews, African Americans and other minorities since the rise of Donald Trump and other Alt-Right Neo-Nazis, Knights for Socialism has decided to host a series of self-defense clinics for anyone that wants to learn how to BASH THE FASH,” asserts the Facebook event page for “Leftist Fight Club: The Rumbles at Lake Claire.”
The description explains that a local amateur boxer was on hand to teach basic hand-to-hand combat techniques at the self-defense clinic, in order to help the socialist students better protect themselves from potential hate crimes performed by those sympathetic to “Donald Trump and other Alt-Right Neo-Nazis.”
That they want to learn how to fight is a good thing in of itself. Good thing for anyone to learn. But their motive for doing so, the assumption of theirs that everyone to the right of an average Democrat is "out to get them", beat them (with flagpoles?) because "The" Right is all made up of Nazis....?
Just another example of a culture of paranoia, strawmanning and blowing differences out of proportion. It apparantly takes very little political difference of opinion to become "The Evil Bad Guys" these days.