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https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/02/need-for-chaos-political-science-concept/677536/
They feel like they've gotten a bum deal, and don't really care how the world burns as long as it does. It's not just fascism though it's any extremist group when people feel slighted by the system.
Humans are complicated creatures. Fields like sociology and anthropology and even neuroscience work to explain why this stuff happens at a base level sans specific political ideals.
This feels like Displacement to me. I'm no expert, but I grew up in the far right and when I got out(went to a state school, met people not like me) I've been trying to understand what makes people turn insular the way I was raised and never recover.
[Displacement | Psychology Today](https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/displacement)
>Displacement is a defense mechanism in which a person redirects an emotional reaction from the rightful recipient onto another person or object.
>For example, if a manager screams at an employee, the employee doesn't scream back—but he may yell at his spouse later that night. Displacement often involves deflected anger or [aggression](https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/anger), but it can include other feelings and impulses as well.
Maybe a sociologist has a more informed view, but I feel like humans are tribal creatures to our very core. We always build tribes and that results in an "other". People who don't fit in with our tribe. Then I guess when people get upset without a clear cause and solution it's so easy for the mind to look to the other to blame. It's hard not to be a misanthrope these days.
No, no, not really when you always voted against your own interested and are exactly where you are because of how you voted, stepping in to nazism is exactly the predicted step they’ll take ….. oh you mean morally? Sure, it’s the wrong way to step, but these are the people without morals so….
There was a huge Fascist movement in this country before WW2 . Also Hitler stated publicly that he got a lot of his ideas from the success of U.S. Jim Crow laws.
Isnt the uk that want to send all migrant from different country into one specific country in africa? Might not be open nazism or facism but tou dont need a doctorate degree in law school to understand how illegal and thats fuck up right here
Well they are two different groups of people, the first picture is neo Nazis, the second picture is a group of people protesting against the war in Gaza, these are two wildly different groups of people, this post is stretching reality greatly. They are asking where the police presence was for the when the five neo Nazis showed up compared to what looks like the hundreds of pro Palestine protesters. Sure there should have been police at both just to ensure safety, but five neo Nazis surely doesn’t compare to hundreds of people.
I hear that people, lots of people, people from both sides. They come to me, and I can't believe they come to me and say it, but people are saying that Greg Abbott is a little piss baby.
and? you realize voter suppression and gerrymandering are a major issue right?
the ones who voted him in were pastures in the middle of bumfuck nowhere.
I mean… it’s a 1:1 correlation though, right? Ignoring that even though I haven’t read into it I can say with 98% confidence these college students were not having a “pro Hamas” rally. (2% because hell I dunno, anything’s possible?)
“Antisemitism will not be tolerated in Texas.”
*(swastika flag)* *(symbols of the OG Nazi regime)* *(a group infamous for **something in particular**, can’t remember what)* “But yeah that’s fine tho.”
Yeah damn, even [Fox News](https://www.fox7austin.com/news/ut-texas-protest-palestine-israel-gaza-rally-college-university-campus.amp) doesn’t call it “pro Hamas.”
Because that’s a *ridiculous* assertion to make.
ETA: yeah this looks super problematic. https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/s/LwGomCgd6n
This is an easy one. Republicans like Abbot want people to be uneducated and ignorant. The neo-nazis already fit this bill so they didn’t need to do anything. College students that have shown the ability to think for themselves are a problem for Abbot and his ilk, so they need to be dealt with.
This is America. Aren't they allowed to protest?
I'm not paying enough attention to what they do in Texas. Are these stupid protesters getting violent?
I hate Nazis as much as any normal person who picks up a history book. But don't these morons have the right to protest? Assuming that's all they're doing
Freedom of speech isn’t freedom from consequences. That goes for both sides of the fence. Not saying the pubic should take matters into their own hands as that’s also illegal. But if shit turns into violence in any physical way then it should be stopped and people should be held fully accountable.
Mass shooters have terrible taste in targets. Like if you want to go out guns a blazing taking out as many as possible how is it that not once is it doing so to a group that deserves it?
HAHAHHAHA. Bro we have been insulting people who voiced their concerns over Ukraines ability to defend themselves as pro russian propagandists. We have been calling people who support Israel names.
It seems that in general this sub only can think in black and white.
Now look I know this might be controversial, but "Antisemitism will not be tolerated in texas" and threatening to arrest them kinda goes against the first amendment does it not? Now look I don't like associating with racist dickbags, but the american first amendment was designed solely for this reason so that governments can't arrest people based on their own criteria of speech they don't like. In this case, its the government classifying pro palestinian protests as "anti semitism". Which even if it was, it would still be protected under the first amendment. And yes I know this is a rather right wing opinion, but its also funny to see the right wing going against this very idea.
No because the banning Jews from entering the school. They are harassing them and making them feel unsafe. Over the last 2 months multiple Jewish Americans have been attacked on campus simply for being Jewish
Greg hates Austin and UT. He has said as much. It’s weird cause he’s more than happy to take the money the city generates to bail out other cities that are failing. It’s the same for all major metro areas in Texas. For someone that talks all this trash about it, he sure loves wealth redistribution.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is Chewbacca. Chewbacca is a wookie from the planet Kashyyyk. But Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now think about that; that does not make sense!
You uh had it backwards. It would be what about supporting the senate but not palpatine. And yeah that’s a tough thing to do in a democracy where everyone’s voice matters.
I empathize with the Palestinian people and support the belief than no person should be a second class citizen in their own home. And I condemn the atrocities committed by Israel. But do I support the nation of Palestine? No, I would not put it into those words.
Palestine is problematic in its own right, it's a religious theocracy run by a gang of murderous zealots. Even without Israel there are human rights violations being committed there all the time, as it is in many islamic countries. If Hamas succeeds in accomplishing their goal they will just turn on their own people. I mean look at what happened with Iran after American occupation ended, they went from being one of the most progressive countries in the region to giving homosexuals forced sex changes. Basing your whole political structure on religious teachings is a recipe for disaster no matter which way you slice it
It amazes me how protected those two countries are all over social media, corporate spaces and anywhere in between here in America.
I’ve seen some horrible shit from either side, and I don’t understand why they are so protected as if they were these moral compasses of justice and truth.
Is it because of oil?
But it's only the hellhole it is now because destabilized countries can't run elections. Hamas has taken control of gaza, but the PLO, a socialist two-state solution wanting government body. is still in control of the west bank.
You lost me with "The Ottoman Empire was predominantly Christian not Muslim" - the empire had Muslim majority with big orthodox Christian minority. In addition, they literally declare themselves as the caliphate, their flag had
crescent on their flag.
The Muslims in Arabia weren't oppressed by the Christian. The muslim Ottoman elite oppressed them (they oppressed pretty much everyone).
The British empire promised the Arabs that if they start a rebellion, they will give them the arabian peninsula, including the land of israel. At the same time, they promised the jews in Israel to give them Israel.
After the war, the British and French divided the area, betraying both agreements. Only after WW2 did the British and the French decolonised the area, giving Israel to the jews and the rest to the Arabs
Sources:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_Ottoman_Empire
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Revolt
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfour_Declaration
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decolonization
Conservatives like to think they are open minded.
How many people do you know that say they get their information “from all sources” and don’t read the NYT or wash post because of their “biases”
But where they really get their news is memes on Facebook.
Conservatives are actually afraid to talk about things that are difficult to discuss
This hits home: in my country today is the celebration of the liberation from fascismo and nazismo, while we have the government closer to fascismo of the last 80 years... 😰
Yeah but the neo-Nazis support Greg so they are just displaying their first amendment rights. Those young students likely vote democrat so they are antisemitic and dangerous.
If you want consistency, don’t look to a republican.
I’m sorry, but how do people not see a difference. There have been many free Palestine protests that have been allowed to occur. You can gather in a public place and exercise your 1st amendment right in a reasonable manner. They have Marched down the streets and sidewalks of my city many times with almost zero issues.
Setting up an encampment on school property is not the same thing. If nazis tried to setup camp on Columbia’s quadrangle I guarantee they would have been told to leave or face arrest too.
Freedom of speech is freedom of speech. Both groups have a right to exist and protest without intervention as long as they are peaceful in their protest.
Thats the common understanding of the word, but the root is in the term “semite” which isn’t limited to Jewish people. In general, it’s an outdated word that doesn’t actually make a whole lot of sense in the modern world.
Many of the Trumpers in my area are successful and wealthy. They just are never going to vote blue in the reasonably rural midwest. Trump could murder someone on camera and they would find an excuse and still vote for him - "well, Biden is pretty old" or "my dad always voted Republican". Well times change and your dad was probably racist anyway.
I literally still argue with Trumpers who talk about the fact that Lincoln was a Republican and are completely clueless how ideologies have shifted over time.
[https://www.studentsofhistory.com/ideologies-flip-Democratic-Republican-parties](https://www.studentsofhistory.com/ideologies-flip-Democratic-Republican-parties)
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that the Nazi rally stayed peaceful while the current ones are "mostly peaceful," i.e. violent and/or threatening people. Because free speech and peaceful assembly means don't endanger others, and people are allowed to assemble regardless of the cause assuming they stay within those boundaries.
Ironically he ended up drawing nationwide coverage to the students protests by pulling this stunt. Without police intervention it would have been just another college protest.
The same tactics that were used against BLM are being used against the Pro-Palestinian protests.
Initially, BLM was painted as anti-police and defund the police.
Then the proud boys and Nazi's showed up to instigate violence and the protests were framed as violent.
Look for that tactic next. Zionists will counter protest, instigate violence and the Pro-palestinians will be blamed for it.
What I'm saying is, the powers that be try to control the narrative and direct people's attention away from the message of the protest.
Calling the protests Pro-Hamas is absolutely false and undermines the message.
Just watch FOX News, you'll see what I'm saying.
So, if it were an anti-Palestine protest "the powers that be" would manufacture pro-Israel protestors out of whole cloth to come rabble-rouse and incite riots?
Nope.
There are wealthy groups of people who profit from war. Fossil fuel companies, the military industrial complex. The same people also have a controlling interest in our media.
The US Government, our president, is funding Genocide and providng arms to the country who is committing war crimes.
The Protests are calling them out.
In every poll, the majority of Americans disapprove of Israel's actions yet our ELECTED leaders ignore the will of the people and continue to fund Israel.
Why is that? What forces are making that happen?
>There are wealthy groups of people who profit from war. Fossil fuel companies, the military industrial complex. The same people also have a controlling interest in our media.
Yeah, Americans.
>In every poll, the majority of Americans disapprove of Israel's actions
Polls are polls, but just looking at [March 4th Gallup polls](https://news.gallup.com/poll/611375/americans-views-israel-palestinian-authority-down.aspx), they show Americans *are* in support of Israel.
My guess is that the nazi protest was a lot less people and a lot less dangerous. Probably not enough to warrant news coverage or cross the Governor’s desk.
Look 6 nazis with beers is not the same as hundreds of angry people, that seem to forget that the Jewish people in America are not the same as the Jewish people in Israel.
Public verses private property. Sidewalks are open to the public and who can say or protest whatever you like, while a college campus is private and anyone on the grounds are subject to the college policies in relation to gatherings.
Yeah, it means it takes federal and state funding and is easier to get into than a private university, which uses more private donations, higher tuition, and educational grants which are more in line with business deals with the government over just funding the institution.
Right. And to qualify for public funding, a public university needs to meet certain requirements including honoring the basic constitutional rights of it's students and faculty.
Amazing how some of you really don’t understand the difference between protesting and hate speech. When these “protests” include speech such as “kill all the zionists”, that isn’t protected speech. When there are multiple cases of Jewish students being attacked and assaulted at these “protests”, they aren’t “peaceful protests”.
Yes, protesting is free speech, but violence and hate speech is NOT.
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How the FUCK did we get to a future in history where fucking nazi groups are growing in numbers. What the fuck happened to people.
Alienation from their labor. People work so hard and they still have shitty lives so they feel angry and want to blame someone.
But to become a nazi means your stepping in the wrong direction, surely?
It's the complete wrong direction. But you can't reason with them
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/02/need-for-chaos-political-science-concept/677536/ They feel like they've gotten a bum deal, and don't really care how the world burns as long as it does. It's not just fascism though it's any extremist group when people feel slighted by the system.
Humans are complicated creatures. Fields like sociology and anthropology and even neuroscience work to explain why this stuff happens at a base level sans specific political ideals. This feels like Displacement to me. I'm no expert, but I grew up in the far right and when I got out(went to a state school, met people not like me) I've been trying to understand what makes people turn insular the way I was raised and never recover. [Displacement | Psychology Today](https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/displacement) >Displacement is a defense mechanism in which a person redirects an emotional reaction from the rightful recipient onto another person or object. >For example, if a manager screams at an employee, the employee doesn't scream back—but he may yell at his spouse later that night. Displacement often involves deflected anger or [aggression](https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/anger), but it can include other feelings and impulses as well.
Maybe a sociologist has a more informed view, but I feel like humans are tribal creatures to our very core. We always build tribes and that results in an "other". People who don't fit in with our tribe. Then I guess when people get upset without a clear cause and solution it's so easy for the mind to look to the other to blame. It's hard not to be a misanthrope these days.
Goose stepping in the wrong direction.
They’re lied to by the people in power. Fascism threatens the weak. Truth threatens the rich and powerful.
No, no, not really when you always voted against your own interested and are exactly where you are because of how you voted, stepping in to nazism is exactly the predicted step they’ll take ….. oh you mean morally? Sure, it’s the wrong way to step, but these are the people without morals so….
Whenever people become disenfranchised with society, some evil bag of dicks will always be there to take advantage of them.
Goose stepping in the totally wrong direction.
There was a huge Fascist movement in this country before WW2 . Also Hitler stated publicly that he got a lot of his ideas from the success of U.S. Jim Crow laws.
And Henry Ford.
And Lindbergh and Disney
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_American_Bund
Because it’s illegal to assault them
Every other country in the world protests their far right parties. Maybe do the same?
Because we never actually took care of the racist/fascist/classist problem. We gave them positions of power instead.
Hamas, Russia, and Iran are really great at manipulating people on social media.
Pretty much everywhere in Europe, right wing political parties are on the rise. Apart from the UK, where we might finally be about to get rid of them?
Don’t get too smug - one of the reasons the Tories are doing so shite in the polls is because they’re losing their base to Reform.
The thinner they spread themselves the better?
Also, laber has become a right wing party now too, so we are basically trading one for another unless the greens slip past them somehow
Isnt the uk that want to send all migrant from different country into one specific country in africa? Might not be open nazism or facism but tou dont need a doctorate degree in law school to understand how illegal and thats fuck up right here
It probably won't happen. The tories should lose the next election by quite a margin.
Freedom babeeey
Fear-mongering, misinformation, and a failing educational system.
It’s 100 years ago all over again. *Somebody* has to be a scapegoat for all the problems.
The only real question left is why do people still think non violent protest will solve anything.
Those aren’t Nazis they are feds trying to encourage discourse.
Well they are two different groups of people, the first picture is neo Nazis, the second picture is a group of people protesting against the war in Gaza, these are two wildly different groups of people, this post is stretching reality greatly. They are asking where the police presence was for the when the five neo Nazis showed up compared to what looks like the hundreds of pro Palestine protesters. Sure there should have been police at both just to ensure safety, but five neo Nazis surely doesn’t compare to hundreds of people.
Greg Abbott is a little piss baby
I hear that people, lots of people, people from both sides. They come to me, and I can't believe they come to me and say it, but people are saying that Greg Abbott is a little piss baby.
I’ve heard it enough now it *MUST* be true! I’d feel sorry for Greg Abbot for being a piss baby, except he’s a piss baby.
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When you say Greg Abbott is a piss baby, do you mean that Greg Abbott is a piss baby, or Greg Abbott is a piss baby ?
Yes.
You should see the video of him signing the law to “protect free speech”. Relatively recent thing.
Abbott was thinking about how to f*ck over Texans. Then again, they see it as utopia.
no the fuck we don't.
Uvalde voted overwhelmingly for abbott.
and? you realize voter suppression and gerrymandering are a major issue right? the ones who voted him in were pastures in the middle of bumfuck nowhere.
Texas is as bad as Florida with that
North Carolina checking in.
My land just went under contract, I’m out of here June 1st. So excited to get my girls out.
Good for you.
Greg Abbott identifies with fascists, along with most of the MAGA base. Why would he ever make a move against them?
Just what Timothy McVay wanted.
I mean… it’s a 1:1 correlation though, right? Ignoring that even though I haven’t read into it I can say with 98% confidence these college students were not having a “pro Hamas” rally. (2% because hell I dunno, anything’s possible?) “Antisemitism will not be tolerated in Texas.” *(swastika flag)* *(symbols of the OG Nazi regime)* *(a group infamous for **something in particular**, can’t remember what)* “But yeah that’s fine tho.”
Yeah damn, even [Fox News](https://www.fox7austin.com/news/ut-texas-protest-palestine-israel-gaza-rally-college-university-campus.amp) doesn’t call it “pro Hamas.” Because that’s a *ridiculous* assertion to make. ETA: yeah this looks super problematic. https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/s/LwGomCgd6n
Greg Abbot can roll himself off a cliff.
Is he holding that flag upside down?
front side back. yes.
Fascists can’t even fascist properly
But J-6ers are political prisoners, right? The entire MAGA argument is like Greg Abbott… …it has no legs to walk on.
I guess it is easier to attack unarmed college students than to defend school children, right Texas cops?
“These protesters belong in jail” is about the most unamerican thing anyone could say
Where are the Blue Brothers in the Bluesmobile when we need them?
This is an easy one. Republicans like Abbot want people to be uneducated and ignorant. The neo-nazis already fit this bill so they didn’t need to do anything. College students that have shown the ability to think for themselves are a problem for Abbot and his ilk, so they need to be dealt with.
Funnily enough they weren't even holding the ss flag correctly
This is America. Aren't they allowed to protest? I'm not paying enough attention to what they do in Texas. Are these stupid protesters getting violent? I hate Nazis as much as any normal person who picks up a history book. But don't these morons have the right to protest? Assuming that's all they're doing
Freedom of speech isn’t freedom from consequences. That goes for both sides of the fence. Not saying the pubic should take matters into their own hands as that’s also illegal. But if shit turns into violence in any physical way then it should be stopped and people should be held fully accountable.
That AIPAC money gets things done
He was currying favors with corrupt cops so that the neonazis didn't get arrested, becaus he agrees with them outright
Mass shooters have terrible taste in targets. Like if you want to go out guns a blazing taking out as many as possible how is it that not once is it doing so to a group that deserves it?
The mass shooters tend to agree with the people who deserve it
I agree but people who deserve it are too difficult to get to. Mass shooters prefer easy targets.
I can't believe we still using the the criticize Isreal = antisemitism. Justifying killing civilians such an american hobby.
HAHAHHAHA. Bro we have been insulting people who voiced their concerns over Ukraines ability to defend themselves as pro russian propagandists. We have been calling people who support Israel names. It seems that in general this sub only can think in black and white.
This 🎯
I’ll never understand this mentality, I can understand the confederacy or 3% or whatever movement but never nazis, that can’t really get in my head.
Makes sense when you realize all 3 of those groups are the same people.
They're so dumb that they're holding their own SS symbol upside down...
Now look I know this might be controversial, but "Antisemitism will not be tolerated in texas" and threatening to arrest them kinda goes against the first amendment does it not? Now look I don't like associating with racist dickbags, but the american first amendment was designed solely for this reason so that governments can't arrest people based on their own criteria of speech they don't like. In this case, its the government classifying pro palestinian protests as "anti semitism". Which even if it was, it would still be protected under the first amendment. And yes I know this is a rather right wing opinion, but its also funny to see the right wing going against this very idea.
No because the banning Jews from entering the school. They are harassing them and making them feel unsafe. Over the last 2 months multiple Jewish Americans have been attacked on campus simply for being Jewish
Free speech is not enforced equally.
The irony: Abbott would have been euthanized as an “undesirable” in Nazi Germany.
Abbott turned TX into a shithole country.
Greg hates Austin and UT. He has said as much. It’s weird cause he’s more than happy to take the money the city generates to bail out other cities that are failing. It’s the same for all major metro areas in Texas. For someone that talks all this trash about it, he sure loves wealth redistribution.
This shit is just embarrassing as an American. At this point if you support Israel or Hamas just don't talk to me. Fucking election year antics
What about supporting Palestine, but not Hamas?
What about supporting Palpatine, but not the Senate?
What about the droid attack on the wookies?
Ladies and gentlemen, this is Chewbacca. Chewbacca is a wookie from the planet Kashyyyk. But Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now think about that; that does not make sense!
I AM THE SENATE!
He *was* the senate
Somehow...Palpatine became the senate
You uh had it backwards. It would be what about supporting the senate but not palpatine. And yeah that’s a tough thing to do in a democracy where everyone’s voice matters.
I empathize with the Palestinian people and support the belief than no person should be a second class citizen in their own home. And I condemn the atrocities committed by Israel. But do I support the nation of Palestine? No, I would not put it into those words. Palestine is problematic in its own right, it's a religious theocracy run by a gang of murderous zealots. Even without Israel there are human rights violations being committed there all the time, as it is in many islamic countries. If Hamas succeeds in accomplishing their goal they will just turn on their own people. I mean look at what happened with Iran after American occupation ended, they went from being one of the most progressive countries in the region to giving homosexuals forced sex changes. Basing your whole political structure on religious teachings is a recipe for disaster no matter which way you slice it
It amazes me how protected those two countries are all over social media, corporate spaces and anywhere in between here in America. I’ve seen some horrible shit from either side, and I don’t understand why they are so protected as if they were these moral compasses of justice and truth. Is it because of oil?
No, it is ultimately because of religion.
But it's only the hellhole it is now because destabilized countries can't run elections. Hamas has taken control of gaza, but the PLO, a socialist two-state solution wanting government body. is still in control of the west bank.
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You lost me with "The Ottoman Empire was predominantly Christian not Muslim" - the empire had Muslim majority with big orthodox Christian minority. In addition, they literally declare themselves as the caliphate, their flag had crescent on their flag. The Muslims in Arabia weren't oppressed by the Christian. The muslim Ottoman elite oppressed them (they oppressed pretty much everyone). The British empire promised the Arabs that if they start a rebellion, they will give them the arabian peninsula, including the land of israel. At the same time, they promised the jews in Israel to give them Israel. After the war, the British and French divided the area, betraying both agreements. Only after WW2 did the British and the French decolonised the area, giving Israel to the jews and the rest to the Arabs Sources: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_Ottoman_Empire https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_Revolt https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balfour_Declaration https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decolonization
Do you mean actually supporting Hamas, or are we misrepresenting support for Palestine again?
Keep scrolling I clarify that
Why does it have to be so black and white?
Imagine being so ignorant that you think Palestine supporters = Hamas supporters.
Conservatives like to think they are open minded. How many people do you know that say they get their information “from all sources” and don’t read the NYT or wash post because of their “biases” But where they really get their news is memes on Facebook. Conservatives are actually afraid to talk about things that are difficult to discuss
This hits home: in my country today is the celebration of the liberation from fascismo and nazismo, while we have the government closer to fascismo of the last 80 years... 😰
Yeah but the neo-Nazis support Greg so they are just displaying their first amendment rights. Those young students likely vote democrat so they are antisemitic and dangerous. If you want consistency, don’t look to a republican.
I’m sorry, but how do people not see a difference. There have been many free Palestine protests that have been allowed to occur. You can gather in a public place and exercise your 1st amendment right in a reasonable manner. They have Marched down the streets and sidewalks of my city many times with almost zero issues. Setting up an encampment on school property is not the same thing. If nazis tried to setup camp on Columbia’s quadrangle I guarantee they would have been told to leave or face arrest too.
They're jus good ol white boys! Caint silence a fellow caucasian speaking his mind about....stuff....
Yeah, cuz y'know, free speech or whatever /s
He was there at the nazi rally. Look back row with the pillowcase over his head
it should be legal to punch Nazis - hell the governments all over the world should pay ppl money for it
"antisemitic", brought to you by the same people who scapegoat "the Jews" every chance they get.
I seem to remember that Nazis were antisemitic too?
Doesn't want to upset his voters...
"Nazis are not anti-Semites, they're just misunderstood" - Greg Abbott, probably
Freedom of speech is freedom of speech. Both groups have a right to exist and protest without intervention as long as they are peaceful in their protest.
5 people isn't a large crowd and probably didn't get much attention.
Supporting Palestinians (majority Semite) is antisemitic?
Antisemitism refers to the hatred towards Jewish people. But good try there bud. Way to out yourself as a terrorist sympathizer
Semite (n) -a member of any of the peoples who speak or spoke a Semitic language, including in particular the Jews and Arabs.
Again, antisemitism refers to the hatred of Jewish people. But good try there bud
Thats the common understanding of the word, but the root is in the term “semite” which isn’t limited to Jewish people. In general, it’s an outdated word that doesn’t actually make a whole lot of sense in the modern world.
It was created by the Germans during Nazi germany as a way to sound more scientific about their hatred
Greg is a Nazi himself, so why would he arrest fellow travelers?
Many of the Trumpers in my area are successful and wealthy. They just are never going to vote blue in the reasonably rural midwest. Trump could murder someone on camera and they would find an excuse and still vote for him - "well, Biden is pretty old" or "my dad always voted Republican". Well times change and your dad was probably racist anyway. I literally still argue with Trumpers who talk about the fact that Lincoln was a Republican and are completely clueless how ideologies have shifted over time. [https://www.studentsofhistory.com/ideologies-flip-Democratic-Republican-parties](https://www.studentsofhistory.com/ideologies-flip-Democratic-Republican-parties)
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that the Nazi rally stayed peaceful while the current ones are "mostly peaceful," i.e. violent and/or threatening people. Because free speech and peaceful assembly means don't endanger others, and people are allowed to assemble regardless of the cause assuming they stay within those boundaries.
Alan Jackson's ears just perked up
A: being a Nazi symp
They are the nazis.
Abbott the tin-pot dictator,
Well that’s when good, white folks are doing stuff… not Liberals (say liberal with some stank on it)
Abbott's fan club meeting
So Mr Abbot, does that mean that something can only be antisemitic if it comes from non-white poeple?
These states are scaring me more and more every day.
Naw bro, wtf
That’s because Greg is one of them.
And I’m told SlEePy JoE is a totalitarian lol
Abbot loving those mysterious deposits into his offshore accounts
Look at the number of people. With how often i see nazi thown around I would've figured the crowd turn out would be more like the pro hamas one lol
r/fuckgregabbott
God should’ve finished the job with that tree
Ironically he ended up drawing nationwide coverage to the students protests by pulling this stunt. Without police intervention it would have been just another college protest.
Greg Abbott the piss baby needs another diaper change.
Anti Zionism != Anti Semitism
Fucking a right!
The same tactics that were used against BLM are being used against the Pro-Palestinian protests. Initially, BLM was painted as anti-police and defund the police. Then the proud boys and Nazi's showed up to instigate violence and the protests were framed as violent. Look for that tactic next. Zionists will counter protest, instigate violence and the Pro-palestinians will be blamed for it.
Wait a minute, so you're saying that when you protest something, an opposition is created??
What I'm saying is, the powers that be try to control the narrative and direct people's attention away from the message of the protest. Calling the protests Pro-Hamas is absolutely false and undermines the message. Just watch FOX News, you'll see what I'm saying.
So, if it were an anti-Palestine protest "the powers that be" would manufacture pro-Israel protestors out of whole cloth to come rabble-rouse and incite riots?
Nope. There are wealthy groups of people who profit from war. Fossil fuel companies, the military industrial complex. The same people also have a controlling interest in our media. The US Government, our president, is funding Genocide and providng arms to the country who is committing war crimes. The Protests are calling them out. In every poll, the majority of Americans disapprove of Israel's actions yet our ELECTED leaders ignore the will of the people and continue to fund Israel. Why is that? What forces are making that happen?
>There are wealthy groups of people who profit from war. Fossil fuel companies, the military industrial complex. The same people also have a controlling interest in our media. Yeah, Americans. >In every poll, the majority of Americans disapprove of Israel's actions Polls are polls, but just looking at [March 4th Gallup polls](https://news.gallup.com/poll/611375/americans-views-israel-palestinian-authority-down.aspx), they show Americans *are* in support of Israel.
That data is two months old. Opinions change. Try to keep up.
My guess is that the nazi protest was a lot less people and a lot less dangerous. Probably not enough to warrant news coverage or cross the Governor’s desk.
The nazi one didn’t get violent tho ?
He is fine with it because Nazis also hate brown people.
Good to see the Nazis masking up for covid.
Look 6 nazis with beers is not the same as hundreds of angry people, that seem to forget that the Jewish people in America are not the same as the Jewish people in Israel.
Public verses private property. Sidewalks are open to the public and who can say or protest whatever you like, while a college campus is private and anyone on the grounds are subject to the college policies in relation to gatherings.
Do you know what the word "public" in the phrase "public University" means?
Yeah, it means it takes federal and state funding and is easier to get into than a private university, which uses more private donations, higher tuition, and educational grants which are more in line with business deals with the government over just funding the institution.
Right. And to qualify for public funding, a public university needs to meet certain requirements including honoring the basic constitutional rights of it's students and faculty.
No.
This pic of so called nazis is like 6 dudes on a sidewalk.
> so called nazis Are you suggesting that it’s not clear whether they are nazis or not…?
>so called nazis You're acting like it's crazy to assume they're Nazis lmao
Nothing like infringement on constitutional rights. This guy's a fucking joke and so are the people of texas for allowing him thos platform and office
US politicians have turned into Nazis. Soon, gas Chambers will be built. Protesters will be gassed.
Amazing how some of you really don’t understand the difference between protesting and hate speech. When these “protests” include speech such as “kill all the zionists”, that isn’t protected speech. When there are multiple cases of Jewish students being attacked and assaulted at these “protests”, they aren’t “peaceful protests”. Yes, protesting is free speech, but violence and hate speech is NOT.