Students shut down Milo Yiannopoulos at University of California-Davis

[ckaihatsu]

Students shut down Milo Yiannopoulos at University of California-Davis (http://fightbacknews.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a29530af96a02fc55d345e735&id=879bfe22e5&e=d323598fe4)

By Dexter Hampton

Davis, CA - Students at the University of California-Davis shut down two alt-right mouthpieces Jan. 13 - fake news editor Milo Yiannopoulos and former pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli. Milo Yiannopoulos is known for fake news stories, hate speech, and his hurt feelings when confronted by protesters. Martin Shkreli is infamous for his decision to raise the price of Daraphim, an HIV and cancer drug, by 56 times its original price. Shkreli was also recently suspended from Twitter for sexually harassing a female reporter. This mirrors Yiannopoulos’s ban from Twitter for leading his followers in harassing actor Leslie Jones.

When students and anti-hate protesters began assembling at 5:30 p.m. on Jan. 13, they faced UC campus police and private security with blue barricades blocking the entrances to the building, an odd sight on any campus. However, several protesters were already inside preparing to take action as the last class of the evening was still being taught. Student protesters released a balloon banner inside the lecture hall, reading “Presenting: fascism.”

When the class ended and most students exited, over a dozen demonstrators sprang into action and linked arms across the entrances to the hall. Then campus police began dragging out the demonstrators one by one. One was charged with resisting arrest and taken away. They were picked up from the police station later that night and warmly greeted with food and tea.

Meanwhile, a crowd of about 150 protesters chanted and held signs outside opposing the racist and bigoted Yiannopoulos and his supporters. As police were dragging protesters out, the crowd advanced on the front entrance, eventually breaking through the police barricades. Yiannopoulos’s private security was forced to retreat inside the building, while the police rushed into their place. The demonstrators pushed a banner, “Your fascism is showing” up towards the police and used it to drive them back. The crowd chanted, “Who do you protect? Who do you serve?” and “Move cops, get out the way.”

As the protest continued, demonstrator Antifa Sacramento chased off white supremacist Nathan Damigo, who was attempting to troll the protest. Then a Trump supporter was escorted away by demonstrators after a woman knocked his MAGA hat off his head. Right-wing men attempted to grope women in the protest, but were quickly shoved away. A man wearing a “Don’t tread on me” shirt was seen harassing people in the crowd and threatening violence with a hammer, but he retreated when the attention of the crowd focused on him. In another instance somebody threw coffee on a right-wing reporter who was harassing students.

Martin Shkreli made a brief appearance, his voice drowned out by dozens of people blowing rape whistles at him. One demonstrator was recorded throwing dog poop at Shkreli’s face.

Earlier in his tour, Milo Yiannopoulos verbally attacked West Virginia University professor Daniel Brewster, using anti-gay slurs and mocking his appearance. At the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Yiannopoulo targeted a trans woman fighting for transgender rights on campus. The UW-Milwaukee student was forced to drop out of the university due to harassment and personal threats. By taking away Yiannopoulo’s platform, he was unable to target anybody at UCD.

The demonstrators made it clear that the protest was not simply about stopping Milo from speaking. None of the signs in the protest made any mention of Yiannopoulo, instead rallying against his bigoted views and the hate messages he spreads.

“The point is challenging larger systems of oppression, showing marginalized communities that there are people who will help them defend themselves, and showing those who might harass and assault the most vulnerable among us that they will have to deal with significant resistance to do so,” said Connor Gorman, a campus protest organizer.

Students for a Democratic Society at UC-Davis, Students and Workers ending Racial Violence, Antifa Sacramento, and Davis Phoenix Coalition made it clear that Yiannopoulo’ss racism, sexism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, ableism and transphobia will not be tolerated, and will be shut down.

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[Raul Castro]

can you stop being an SJW liberal

[Gavrilo93]

can you stop being an SJW liberal

Can you stop defending fascists, and fascist way of thinking on this website already?

[ckaihatsu]

can you stop being an SJW liberal





Can you stop defending fascists, and fascist way of thinking on this website already?


Yeah, I have to agree with G's sentiment -- you're being sectarian on this one, RC.

I only post the content that I do to RevLeft because I think it's timely and relevant as news / information -- I'm not an SJW liberal, and don't intend to be one soon, either. The stuff is f.y.i.

[ckaihatsu]

UC Berkeley cancels Milo Yiannopoulos event amid violent protest


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UC Berkeley cancels Milo Yiannopoulos event amid violent protest (http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Protesters-storm-Milo-Yiannopoulos-event-at-UC-10901829.php) | 01 Feb 2017 | After a protest at UC Berkeley turned violent Wednesday night, campus officials announced that a scheduled speech by right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos was canceled. The Breitbart News editor was set to deliver a speech inside a UC Berkeley campus building but hundreds of protesters began throwing fireworks and pulling down the metal barricades police set up to keep people from rushing into the building. Windows were smashed and fires were set outside the building as masked protesters stormed it. The Berkeley Police Department said people threw bricks, smoking objects, and fireworks at police officers. Protesters took down a light pole and university police locked down all buildings and ordered a shelter in place.

Speech by Breitbart's Milo Yiannopoulos canceled amid big protests at Berkeley (http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-milo-yiannopoulos-berkeley-20170201-story.html) | 01 Feb 2017 | A speech by conservative firebrand Milo Yiannopoulos was canceled at UC Berkeley on Wednesday amid large protests and some vandalism. Video showed huge protests on the campus, with some demonstrators chanting "shut him down." speech by conservative firebrand Milo Yiannopoulos was canceled at UC Berkeley on Wednesday amid large protests and some vandalism...Davis College Republicans decided it was unsafe to continue the event after a large number of protesters blocked access to the venue, according to a release from the school. UC Davis interim Chancellor Ralph Hexter said he was "deeply disappointed" by the protests and the cancellation.

[IbelieveInanarchy]

can you stop being an SJW liberal You are such a fucking idiot

[GiantMonkeyMan]

can you stop being an SJW liberal
The right wing have adopted the term 'SJW' as a pejorative to dismiss the social movements of our era. Fighting for social justice is in no way a negative thing and revolutionary socialists have consistently throughout history fought alongside those struggling for a better existence and pointing out all the oppression and privilege of class society. Just a few examples that might interest you, the Communist Party USA were the only people willing to step up and defend the wrongly accused Scottsboro boys, the very first pro-lgbt speech in a parliament was made by the socialist August Bebel and the very first female Cabinet Member in history was the bolshevik Alexendra Kollontai. The movements of the contemporary left might be steeped in identity politics and lacking in class analysis but the only way to draw those people towards revolutionary conclusions is to engage with these movements positively and not dismiss them by adopting the terms of the right wing. Every revolutionary worth their salt should be standing shoulder to shoulder with those marching for women's rights, trans rights, with Black Lives Matter and all movements of their sort and making the case to the others within those movements that only a working class united can overcome the prejudices inherent in capitalism.

Besides all that... Milo Yiannopoulos is just a massive scumbag and any attempt to prevent the odious vomit that spews from his mouth is an opportunity well taken.

[Omniscient]

I view this as a pretty good success. A lot of people claim that this is an issue of free speech. They are wrong. Milo incites hate and violence, and he should be met with the same treatment.

[willowtooth]

what is black bloc doing in San Francisco anyway? I thought that was more of a European thing. Im not complaining they barely did anything, a little damaged property and punched a few racist fans of Milo's, but this is America we have guns for sale. Did you see what just one guy did in Dallas? I'm not sure if bats and molotovs are necessary. Look how many reporters took pictures of that little fire they set. There's millions of photos of this little security lamp post on fire from every possible angle

http://www.mercurynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/cct-berkmilo-0202-09.jpg?w=620

The LA riots killed a few dozen people, injured hundreds more, thousands of fires were set off. I dont get this non lethal violence tactic in America especially since it's not organic, if you watch these rallies you'll also notice these guys are actually the first ones standing in the way of some guy getting beaten to death. Some people say their undercover cops, but I dont know they dont look like cops.

I mean I get the tactic when its used for financial protests against squatting laws or the IMF but what would burning down a starbucks achieve in getting Milo (who probably hates starbucks btw) off college campuses? Even the damage they're causing is no more valuable then what they rip theyre employees off for in a week. the original black bloc caused tens of millions of dollars worth of damage in Germany. In Egypt black bloc is listed as a terrorist group, something the Sisi friendly Trump administration is suggesting for America. All for one guy that could be solved with a 5 cent peice of metal, or even really just a broken jaw would take him out long enough to fall from public memory, might give his fans a bit of a martyr complex but its not like they dont perpetually already have one.

I guess its good because without a little property damage and setting a few fires your protest wont get news coverage in America, but regardless of their intentions they are mimicking CIA tactics used to give police an excuse to put down protests and dismiss them as violent animals in the media. If your not threatening the rich for privatization or public funding for something like food kitchens whats the point of smashing a Mcdonalds window or setting a few fires?

[Omniscient]

what is black bloc doing in San Francisco anyway? I thought that was more of a European thing. Im not complaining they barely did anything, a little damaged property and punched a few racist fans of Milo's, but this is America we have guns for sale. Did you see what just one guy did in Dallas? I'm not sure if bats and molotovs are necessary. Look how many reporters took pictures of that little fire they set. There's millions of photos of this little security lamp post on fire from every possible angle

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The LA riots killed a few dozen people, injured hundreds more, thousands of fires were set off. I dont get this non lethal violence tactic in America especially since it's not organic, if you watch these rallies you'll also notice these guys are actually the first ones standing in the way of some guy getting beaten to death. Some people say their undercover cops, but I dont know they dont look like cops.

I mean I get the tactic when its used for financial protests against squatting laws or the IMF but what would burning down a starbucks achieve in getting Milo (who probably hates starbucks btw) off college campuses? Even the damage they're causing is no more valuable then what they rip theyre employees off for in a week. the original black bloc caused tens of millions of dollars worth of damage in Germany. In Egypt black bloc is listed as a terrorist group, something the Sisi friendly Trump administration is suggesting for America. All for one guy that could be solved with a 5 cent peice of metal, or even really just a broken jaw would take him out long enough to fall from public memory, might give his fans a bit of a martyr complex but its not like they dont perpetually already have one.

I guess its good because without a little property damage and setting a few fires your protest wont get news coverage in America, but regardless of their intentions they are mimicking CIA tactics used to give police an excuse to put down protests and dismiss them as violent animals in the media. If your not threatening the rich for privatization or public funding for something like food kitchens whats the point of smashing a Mcdonalds window or setting a few fires?

This is actually a very good point. Little damage was actually done, however the right wing "media" feels the need to blow things out of proportion.

[willowtooth]

This is actually a very good point. Little damage was actually done, however the right wing "media" feels the need to blow things out of proportion.

Corporate media is beholden to the shareholders, they dont cover protests they cover riots they will never give you a moments notice if your out in the streets quietly protesting not hurting anyone, but light one fire and they go into all out riot mode. They need the ratings, in fact if I worked for the news I would hire a couple kids to start a fire at every protest, just so i could get footage of it first, I'll use it to further my career. Even when they do cover the protest they almost always interview the people who are the victims of the protest. Or just stand there like jackasses staring at a fire usually saying something along the lines of "we dont know whats happening" "we dont know whats going on" "we've seen this happening all night" "the police have told us" bla blah blah, they rarely ever interview the people who are actually protesting, or the leaders, or just one of the random people who is so eager to be heard they brought their own bullhorn from home.

There was a big deal made about this girl who got pepper sprayed at the protest watch the video


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x643kcoc8FU

She is being asked "what did you come to hear", and the reporter actually has to repeat this question because she genuinely has no idea what to say or how to answer. She eventually says "im just here to make a statement" (as if that makes any sense) before desperately trying to wander away. In fact you will find it difficult to even find a single person being interviewed from the protest, dozens of interviews were given to cops and to people who got beaten up. They dont want to hear a word from actual protesters. If they did they would cover the thousands of protests that go on not just in America but worldwide. In brazil we saw one of the largest protests in human history against the recent olympics, and there was almost a complete media blackout. During these protests however the pope came for a visit to the country, and a few local protests in the area finally got a glimpse of news coverage because they happened to be near the pope.

the corporate media has really eliminated the free press because rather than journalists telling us what we need to know, we have pundits telling us what we like to hear, or rather whatever we need to hear to keep us glued to their channel. They didn't eliminate the free press by installing laws and sanctions and making journalism illegal, but instead have flooded the airwaves with complete garbage news, celebrity gossip, they would rather cover a politicians sex scandal rather than his corruption scandals. they would rather cover a local housefire than a local labor union, or environmental protest

In baltimore we had a BLM riot that lit a CVS pharmacy on fire, this is image was show on repeat for days after. Nobody talked about the people who were running into a burning building to steal diapers and baby formula to take prescription meds for asthma and heart medicine, or how the corporate owned pharmacy shutdown other local pharmacies in the area, only to jack prices up and replace local small business owners with part time min wage workers.

Nobody even talked about the hundred or so fires that were started because they didn't get that nice big fiery blaze going which just looks so good on the front page

[ckaihatsu]

Protester shot outside white nationalist event


Milo Yiannopoulos’ hateful rhetoric has led to a non-violent protester being shot by one of his supporters.

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Dear Chris,

While Donald Trump is planning to cut all funding for de-radicalizing violent white supremacists, book publisher Simon & Schuster is paying a white supremacist - Milo Yiannopoulos - $250,000 to spread their violent ideology.

Just last week one of Yiannopoulos’ supporters shot a non-violent and unarmed protester outside of Yiannopoulos’ latest stop on his tour of hate.1

Pressure on Simon & Schuster to cancel the white supremacist book deal is mounting. Last week, bestselling author, Roxane Gay, pulled her forthcoming book from Simon & Schuster.2 Gay said she “couldn’t bring herself” to turn the book in because she was not interested in doing business with a publisher willing to give a platform to a white nationalist.

We need to keep driving the pressure up on Simon & Schuster and show them that there are significant costs for funding a mainstream platform for white nationalists to spread their views of hate for Black people, women, Muslims, and transgender people. It’s time Simon & Schuster heard directly from you.

Click here to call Simon & Schuster’s CEO and demand she cancel the white supremacist book deal. (https://act.colorofchange.org/call/simon-schuster-stop-funding-hate-speech/?t=3&akid=6930.872082.3yuoXx)

Simon & Schuster CEO Carolyn Reidy thinks this is merely a free speech issue. But there’s a big difference between supporting free speech and printing and profiting from hate speech. By giving Yiannopoulos a platform and a quarter of a million dollars, Simon & Schuster is helping to normalize this dangerous rhetoric.

Reidy is mistaken if she thinks she’s doing something noble like fighting censorship. This is not the same thing as publishing books by both Dick Cheney and Hillary Clinton. Yiannopoulos shares extremist and antagonistic views designed to further endanger marginalized people, and as such, Reidy and her company should be ashamed for trying to make money from this hateful content.

Yiannopoulos should be ignored, not handed a fat check and a megaphone.

Click here to call Simon & Schuster’s CEO and demand she cancel the white supremacist book deal. (https://act.colorofchange.org/call/simon-schuster-stop-funding-hate-speech/?t=4&akid=6930.872082.3yuoXx)

Milo Yiannopoulos is a Breitbart publisher and spokesperson for white supremacy. He has made a name for himself as a mouthpiece for hate speech. Last year, Yiannopoulos was banned from Twitter after leading a campaign of racial, anti-Black and sexual harassment against actress Leslie Jones. The harassment driven by Yiannopoulos was so severe that Jones had to temporarily quit Twitter. Now he’s getting $250,000 from Simon & Schuster to promote his hateful ideas.

As major authors beginning to terminate their relationships with Simon & Schuster over their support of white nationalists we need to keep upping the pressure. We need Simon & Schuster’s CEO to hear that we will not buy any books under their label as long as they provide financial support and a mainstream platform for white nationalists.

Click here to call Simon & Schuster’s CEO and demand she cancel the white supremacist book deal. (https://act.colorofchange.org/call/simon-schuster-stop-funding-hate-speech/?t=5&akid=6930.872082.3yuoXx)

Until justice is real,

-- Brandi, Rashad, Arisha, Evan, Jade, Anika, Corina, the rest of the Color Of Change team.

References:

1. “Shooter sent Facebook message to Breitbart’s Milo Yiannopoulos before gunfire at UW protest, police say,” Seattle Times, January 23, 2017. http://act.colorofchange.org/go/7367?t=7&akid=6930.872082.3yuoXx

2. “Roxane Gay Pulls Book From Simon & Schuster In Response To Milo Yiannopoulos Controversy,” Buzzfeed, January 25, 2017. https://act.colorofchange.org/go/7366?t=9&akid=6930.872082.3yuoXx


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[The Garbage Disposal Unit]

what is black bloc doing in San Francisco anyway? I thought that was more of a European thing. Im not complaining they barely did anything, a little damaged property and punched a few racist fans of Milo's, but this is America we have guns for sale. Did you see what just one guy did in Dallas? I'm not sure if bats and molotovs are necessary. Look how many reporters took pictures of that little fire they set. There's millions of photos of this little security lamp post on fire from every possible angle

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The LA riots killed a few dozen people, injured hundreds more, thousands of fires were set off. I dont get this non lethal violence tactic in America especially since it's not organic, if you watch these rallies you'll also notice these guys are actually the first ones standing in the way of some guy getting beaten to death. Some people say their undercover cops, but I dont know they dont look like cops.

I mean I get the tactic when its used for financial protests against squatting laws or the IMF but what would burning down a starbucks achieve in getting Milo (who probably hates starbucks btw) off college campuses? Even the damage they're causing is no more valuable then what they rip theyre employees off for in a week. the original black bloc caused tens of millions of dollars worth of damage in Germany. In Egypt black bloc is listed as a terrorist group, something the Sisi friendly Trump administration is suggesting for America. All for one guy that could be solved with a 5 cent peice of metal, or even really just a broken jaw would take him out long enough to fall from public memory, might give his fans a bit of a martyr complex but its not like they dont perpetually already have one.

I guess its good because without a little property damage and setting a few fires your protest wont get news coverage in America, but regardless of their intentions they are mimicking CIA tactics used to give police an excuse to put down protests and dismiss them as violent animals in the media. If your not threatening the rich for privatization or public funding for something like food kitchens whats the point of smashing a Mcdonalds window or setting a few fires?

I think we need to start where people are at, and really consider the political situation in North America.
Picking a gunfight - in a political context - isn't just about walking away with holes in your opponent and none in yourself. It's about the capacity to resist the repression that would bring down. It's about having the organization to be able to explain - to millions of people - why we picked a gunfight. It's about the being able to make the gunfight into a political victory.
Do you think anticapitalists actually have that level of capacity and organization?
I think the level of physical confrontations that exist in North America are both useful, and accurately reflect our ability to transform "street action" into political victories. I think fist fights, starting fires, "trashing", etc. are ways to build our confidence, to practice tactical coordination, "test the waters" of public discourse, and so on. I think escalating, at this juncture, to armed conflict, would be politically suicidal, even if we did have the "firepower" in particular moments.
I also think, against the most advanced military and police apparatus in world history, as well as a gun-crazed right wing, the use of arms needs to be very calculated. Straight-up shootouts are likely to be suicidal.
Suggested reading: The Art of War.

[willowtooth]

I think we need to start where people are at, and really consider the political situation in North America.
Picking a gunfight - in a political context - isn't just about walking away with holes in your opponent and none in yourself. It's about the capacity to resist the repression that would bring down. It's about having the organization to be able to explain - to millions of people - why we picked a gunfight. It's about the being able to make the gunfight into a political victory.
Do you think anticapitalists actually have that level of capacity and organization?
I think the level of physical confrontations that exist in North America are both useful, and accurately reflect our ability to transform "street action" into political victories. I think fist fights, starting fires, "trashing", etc. are ways to build our confidence, to practice tactical coordination, "test the waters" of public discourse, and so on. I think escalating, at this juncture, to armed conflict, would be politically suicidal, even if we did have the "firepower" in particular moments.
I also think, against the most advanced military and police apparatus in world history, as well as a gun-crazed right wing, the use of arms needs to be very calculated. Straight-up shootouts are likely to be suicidal.
Suggested reading: The Art of War.
Lets not kid ourselves there will be many more protests, more riots and more violence regardless of what we do here, there might literally be a military coup against Trump in the very near future. The recent dallas shooting against police officers was done by a single man who I doubt had any real connections to radical communist parties anywhere, he certainly wasn't taking orders from one. But this violence was against the police, and the state. He didn't intend to bring down the American government or abolish the US police force. It was an act of desperation, which is a necessary factor in any real revolution. Now if there was even one single person was really desperate enough that they would risk their lives to kill Milo it would have happened already, he's not the leader of some paramilitary collective, he's not a politician or even a cop. He's not that wealthy either and can't afford much security. You could walk on stage with one of those bats and knock the crap out of him. You could "shutdown" his conference with a gas canister, or even a few stink bombs you dont need a full scale riot.

Protests should be educational it should be about getting attention brought to certain issues. It should be about the larger program. there's a hundred other people like Milo, he's just ripping off anne coulter after all. All he wants to do is offend people then record their spontaneous or irrational reaction and prescribe their reaction to a political ideology. If he goes in to the street and calls a bunch of black people nigger then gets the shit beaten out of him, he can't go on youtube and say" see look at the violent leftists and overreaction" because nobody would blame that on politics, they would just see some guy getting beaten up for being racist and offensive they would even be offended that you compared the right wing or the republican party to just some jackass running around screaming racial slurs.

to quote Lee atwater
you start out in 1954 by saying, “Nigger, nigger, nigger.” By 1968 you can't say “nigger” — that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me — because obviously sitting around saying, “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “Nigger, nigger.”

what Milo and people like him do is walk that fine line between screaming nigger and just talking about tax cuts. It's a balancing act its almost a form of art. So while Berkeley would never allow the leader of the KKK or the American nazi party they will allow the trapeze artist Milo on stage because he never crosses to far over to the side where you can say outright he's a neonazi skinhead who should be arrested as a terrorist, never mind being allowed to speak to college kids. This is why he chooses targets like Berkeley and not the most redneck right wing school he could, where his message might actually be heard and might go unnoticed. He doesn't want to go unnoticed, he wants the attention. So some of the smarter leftists will suggests "well lets just ignore him and he will go away". What they dont understand is that he will continue to get more and more offensive, he has no real point, or ideology. Just like Trump they like him because he pisses off all the people they see as attacking them. So what should be done is attacking Lee atwater not anne coulter (if you get what i mean) have these people become more offended at tax cuts then they are about whatever nonsense he's talking about. If your going to lead the charge in this instance, you have to be charging towards the middle not the far right as the masses will always triumph over the far right. If a neo nazi showed up in Brooklyn and started screaming about white power it wouldnt take long for him to be beaten to death, but the guy who is talking about lowering taxes for the rich and privatizing schools is just as racist and can harm not only minorities but the lower class whites as well but he can scream about that all day long and if anything they will run him for city council

to quote Mao




All reactionaries are paper tigers. In appearance, the reactionaries are terrifying, but in reality they are not so powerful. From a long-term point of view, it is not the reactionaries but the people who are really powerful.



part of the reason why fascists think they can get way with these things is because they really believe the people as a whole agree with them and that a gigantic conspiracy of leftist intellectuals and some secret cabal of university professors, scientists and tv personalities just make it seem like the whole world is against them and that only a few activists are actually against them. Well 50% of americans dont even vote, even less follow politics enough to know who Milo even is much less want to risk their lives to protect or put and end to his hate speech. Because what they live in is a complete opposite world, they're filled with fear that the jews are in fact conspiring to destroy their banks, black people will one day come in the night to kill them and their families for slavery, that the gays will come and seduce them all into abject perversion, mexicans and muslims are pouring in by the hundreds of millions everyday and will rape their women, and bankrupt their country because theyre all on welfare. This fear is what motivates their hatred, those fears are completely invented of course, and the people who really have something to fear is the racial and religious minorities. so as far as fear goes we are on equal playing field if anything they are more afraid of us then we are of them

As far as violence is concerned I should say that everytime you hear of a black man or rabbi or, a homosexual or muslim or mexican migrant being beaten or killed this is an attack against us, even if the victim has no political affiliations whatsoever this is an attack against the left. We attack their ideologues and hate mongers but nobody on the left talks about finding white people and beating them up randomly in revenge for some perceived attack, as they do quite often. So they are always attacking "us"

[comrada]

Some good ass praxis

[ckaihatsu]

Milo’s book is cancelled!


After rising pressure and increased exposure of his vile beliefs, Simon & Schuster has cancelled Milo’s book of hate.

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Dear Chris,

You’ve probably already heard the news, but, you did it! Your pressure helped force Simon & Schuster to drop Milo Yiannopoulos’ hateful book.

More than 50,000 petition signers generated more than a thousand phone calls to Simon & Schuster’s executive team - calling them everyday for nearly a month demanding they cancel the book.

Then, last week, old video footage of Milo tacitly supporting pedophelia made headlines. By Tuesday morning he’d lost his speaking engagements, his job at Breitbart and his $250,000 book deal.

Because of the relentless pressure of members like you put on Simon & Schuster to drop Milo’s vile beliefs, this was the final nail in his coffin.

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The issue here was never freedom of speech but the freedom to treat other people, particularly vulnerable ones, badly; the freedom to whip up racist, misogynistic, anti-Trans and xenophobic fears without facing any consequence; the freedom to embolden forces that represent a tangible danger to people.

White supremacists - and people like Milo who cater to them - should not be granted elevated platforms or six-figure book deals to express their ideas in public. Their ideas - no matter what academic sounding language they dress it up in - are meant to embolden forces that represent a tangible danger to people.

Any corporation that continues to provide money and a megaphone to those who seek to spread hate speech are enabling the violence and vitriol directed at marginalized communities. Cancelling Yiannopoulos’s book deal is the first step in the many we must take to decrease the mainstream platform of white supremacy. Simon & Schuster made the right decision in responding to weeks of pressure and a growing list of allegations against Yiannopoulos, and made a commitment to stop the hateful rhetoric that can empower a racist and violent agenda.

Make no mistake, our communities will not stand for any corporations that aim to make a buck off white supremacy, and we will continue to hold them accountable for the ways they stand to make a profit at the expense of our lives.

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Pro-Trump rally in Berkeley turns violent as protesters clash with the president’s supporters

By Amy B Wang March 5 at 11:57 AM

'March 4 Trump' turns violent in Berkeley Play Video0:46

Trump supporters clashed with counter-protesters at a "March 4 Trump” in Berkeley, Calif. It appeared to be the only episode of violence around several pro-Trump events across the country on Saturday, March 4. (Photo: Stephen Lam, Reuters/Reuters)
Supporters of the president and anti-Trump protesters clashed violently Saturday in Berkeley, Calif., on a day that numerous pro-Trump rallies took place across the country.

A planned “March 4 Trump” demonstration held at the city’s Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park — several blocks from the University of California at Berkeley campus — escalated after fights broke out between those who had shown up for the event and counter-protesters, which led to at least 10 arrests.

Photos and video from the afternoon showed police outfitted in riot gear, as shouting matches erupted within the crowd of a few hundred people, according to police. People could be seen kicking and hitting one another, either with their bare hands or with the signs they had been carrying.

Seven people received medical attention for injuries, but none needed or wanted to be taken to the hospital, police said.

Of the arrests, five were for battery, four for assault with a deadly weapon (including one person who had a dagger) and one for resisting arrest, according to Berkeley police.

Among the items confiscated from the crowd were metal pipes, baseball bats, two-by-four blocks of wood and bricks, police added.

Throughout the afternoon, images of the Berkeley clashes circulated on social media. At one point, Berkeley police released an alert to quash a rumor spreading online that someone had died of a stab wound at the rally.


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The #Trump rally in Berkeley has broken out in violence four minutes before the march is supposed to start.
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The situation was further complicated when groups of self-described anarchists joined the crowd around 3 p.m., the San Francisco Chronicle reported. The anarchists were dressed in black and blocked traffic as they marched through downtown Berkeley, mingling with pro-Trump and anti-Trump demonstrators, according to the newspaper.

“These people just want to fight,” Nancy Chase, a Trump supporter, told the Chronicle. “They are anarchists in black, and it’s not what we are about. I just want to stand up for liberty.”

It is unclear whether the anarchists belonged to any one group. Activists aligned with “black bloc” groups had similarly wreaked havoc during protests in Washington during the inauguration, destroying property for the sake of upending order, The Washington Post reported in January.


These groups take “advantage of the legitimate protesters to destroy things and emphasize their anarchist roots,” David Gomez, a former senior FBI counterterrorism official in Seattle, told The Post.


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Fighting is spreading to the streets in Berkeley. This isn't a Trump rally anymore. It's the anarchists.
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“This is a sad day,” Berkeley Councilman Ben Bartlett said, according to the newspaper. “We’re better than this.”

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A Trump supporter is injured after the rally. (Dan Honda/East Bay Times via AP)
Police encouraged people to report crimes even after the event ended.

“Because of the nature of the crowd, police are not always able to make immediate arrests without inciting further violence or injuring peaceful bystanders,” police said in a statement.

The liberal Northern California city has seen its share of intense demonstrations, most recently last month, when Milo Yiannopoulos, then a writer for Breitbart, was scheduled to speak at U.C. Berkeley on Feb. 1. Hundreds protested his presence on campus, allegedly setting off fireworks, throwing rocks and bricks and breaking windows, according to the Daily Californian.

The protests reached such a pitch that the campus was placed on lockdown and Yiannopoulos’s talk was canceled.

The incident prompted Trump to threaten to pull federal funding from the university.

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