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Godwin comes to Boston
More b0st0n wank, this time about the neo-Nazis that are coming to town.

The city of Boston is having a Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony this coming Sunday. Apparently a neo-Nazi group has announced that they will be protesting during the ceremony. windwriter relates these facts, and passes on an email forward about a meeting for anti-Nazi protesters (protestors protesting the protestors).

Per usual for protest literature, there's a paragraph decrying the evils of the right:

Why do we have to oppose them? The right wing has become confident in recent months, and this in turn has emboldened the far-right. The evidence? The "Minutemen" were allowed to roam the Arizona borderland unopposed in their vigilante and racist hunt of Latinos suspected of being undocumented immigrants last month, leading to several episodes of human rights violations. In Boston, violence against gays and lesbians was up 30% last year. History has shown that if fascists are unopposed, they can gain a foothold and recruit others to their views. This in turn allows the "official" right wing to push forward their agenda (think: Death Penalty in Massachusetts, an end to gay marriage, etc.) and makes far right fascist politics even more accessible. We can stop this cycle by coming out in large numbers to demonstrate to the NAZIs that they are not welcome in our city and that they will not recruit a base of support here! This is exactly what was done by hundreds of activists when the NAZIs last came to town in 1994. They were run out of town and haven't been back for eleven years. We have to show them that they are still unwelcome in Boston!

badlydrawnjeff is the token conservative to speak up against this paragraph. Now you'd expect wank, right? Surprisingly, not really. windwriter agrees that it's overblown. postvixen disagrees, but the debate is fairly civil and reasoned.

When slickgothgurl says that the nazis are allowed to be assholes too, however, oh_snap does not agree. While they snark at each other, jewelweed provides a short lesson in rhetoric . All three of them continue the argument here.

Meanwhile, sexyblueduck starts with windwriter, but it is nipped in the bud.

Also momentarily features health reasons for screaming and a movement to put babies on spikes.

Oh, yeah, and some sample Nazis.

EDIT: Non-wanky but informative link, courtesy of the Boston Globe.

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	kadath 2005-05-06 12:19 am UTC (link)
	Ah, Boston. Where there are approximately 5,000 screamingly liberal college students for every Nazi New England could possibly muster. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	lurker32 2005-05-06 12:35 am UTC (link)
	Damn skippy! prints out banner: "Nazis are Stoopid. Throw Rocks At Them" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	kadath 2005-05-06 03:26 pm UTC (link)
	I see the Neo-Nazis who turn up to protests and I'm all "you're the flower of the Aryan race? I'll be a race traitor, kthx." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	smo 2005-05-06 03:57 pm UTC (link)
	For real. It's been my observation that how "pure Aryan" someone is is inversely proportional to their attractiveness. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	deoridhe 2005-05-06 05:56 pm UTC (link)
	"Genetic purity" is a very sad thing. It's taken down many a royal family. Anyone who actually understand evolution and genetics knows that diversity is preferable to a lack thereof. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	smo 2005-05-06 05:58 pm UTC (link)
	It's taken down many a royal family. coughTheRomanovscough (Reply to this)(Parent)

	visp 2005-05-07 06:02 am UTC (link)
	It's been my observation that how "pure Aryan" someone is is inversely proportional to their attractiveness Well if you think about it, you'd have to be one real pathetically ugly fucker to be desperate enough to grasp the "Superior Aryan Race" card as your esteem booster. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	smo 2005-05-07 06:26 am UTC (link)
	And, it goes without saying, a pathetically worthless loser. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	visp 2005-05-07 08:33 pm UTC (link)
	Pretty much. The rest of us have better reasons to feel good about ourselves than "Uh... inbred is good?" (Reply to this)(Parent)

	bubosquared 2005-05-07 02:38 pm UTC (link)
	From observation, I feel fairly confident in saying most "mongrels" are very very pretty people, much more so than inbred KKK "pure Aryan" twits. (I remember an ad for something that featured a whole bunch of mixed-race people, and guuuhhhh. One girl in particular, who was, I think, Chinese/Latino, was almost etheral. So much pretty.) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	smo 2005-05-07 02:44 pm UTC (link)
	The president of my anime club is half-Brazilian, half-Japanese. Say what you will about the man's character, but he sure am pretty. ^_^ Myself, I'm English/French/Swiss/Italian/Jewish, and I like to think my face doesn't scare small children. :D (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

bubosquared
2005-05-07 02:48 pm UTC (link)

I'm the whitest white girl that ever whited, myself, but I tend to be much more attracted to non-white folk than to other whities. I suspect this is some sort of gene diversity drive or something. :D

Although, I have to wonder, how do these "100% Pure Aryan" folks know there's no "contamination" of their genes anywhere in the past? I couldn't swear to that, and I'm European. I always thought in America, the chances that there's at least one non-white ancestor somewhere in your gene pool are pretty damn high, even if you look "perfectly" white.

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	smo 2005-05-07 03:07 pm UTC (link)
	Let's face it: we just can't keep people of different races out of each others' pants. XD (Reply to this)(Parent)

	lurker32 2005-05-06 06:29 pm UTC (link)
	snickers Totally. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	darkrose 2005-05-06 03:52 am UTC (link)
	They're going to have to bus the Nazis in for this, aren't they? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	smo 2005-05-06 02:14 pm UTC (link)
	I predict a bizarre reversal of the Southie busing riots. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	smo 2005-05-06 12:02 pm UTC (link)
	They really are marching straight into the lion's den, aren't they? The only way the Nazis could make it harder on themselves would be if they protested in, like, Roxbury. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cpip 2005-05-06 02:08 pm UTC (link)
	They could come on down to NYC and try protesting in Midwood or Bedford. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	smo 2005-05-06 02:13 pm UTC (link)
	If they could afford to spring for plane tickets, they could even head out to Watts and Englewood. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	mastervex 2005-05-06 09:50 pm UTC (link)
	Liberal college students are suprisingly strong and vicious, too. They're like hamsters, all small and fuzzy and harmless looking until you poke them. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	ruuger 2005-05-06 01:31 am UTC (link)
	a movement to put babies on spikes You can tell that it's way past my bedtime and that I have been watching far too much Buffy lately when was skimming my f-list, read that and for several seconds thought that the post was about some weird Buffy/Spike pairing war wank. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	innsmouth_eyes 2005-05-06 02:58 am UTC (link)
	insert obligatory Eddie Izzard joke here (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	nevadafighter 2005-05-06 07:15 am UTC (link)
	"I'm Crazy Eddie! I put babies on spikes! You wanna rack a baby? We got babies on racks! Mmm, they . . . taste of chicken!" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	smo 2005-05-06 12:01 pm UTC (link)
	pokes a badger with a spoon (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cellardoor28 2005-05-06 05:20 pm UTC (link)
	GIP (Reply to this)(Parent)

	smo 2005-05-06 12:00 pm UTC (link)
	a movement to put babies on spikes. makes squeaky noises a la Eddie Izzard ^_^ (Reply to this)

	runrunmarch 2005-05-06 07:23 pm UTC (link)
	The phrase "sample Nazis" just made me giggle like a twit. I don't know why. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	mastervex 2005-05-06 09:51 pm UTC (link)
	Me too. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	adora_spintriae 2005-05-07 01:21 pm UTC (link)
	Man, the Aryan race has really gone downhill in the breeding department these days. Whatever happened to all those strapping blonde things ~~in short shorts and knee-high socks~~ in the Hitler Youth? (Reply to this)(Thread)

	(Anonymous) 2005-05-08 09:13 am UTC (link)
	They grew up and one became the Pope. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	kookaburra 2005-05-10 01:15 am UTC (link)
	They don't even have the snazzy uniforms anymore. (Reply to this)(Parent)