kalm wrote:
Jesus **** Christ. It's not hard to keep you hands to yourself or to not steal a presenter's belongings. And why wasn't she arrested?
If liberals didn't attend there'd be like 7 people there and no one would notice or care.
I agree with this. If not for the way out of scale protest of this guy I never would've heard his name or ever even knew about him. People on the Left like to say that Trump has enabled and embolden the whackos and the Nazis and the white supremacists on the whacky part of the Right side of the political spectrum, and maybe that's true to a point, but I also think that by responding with overwhelming numbers and by trying to silence the whackos from even speaking that we've inadvertently shined a spotlight on these weird groups and have given them an audience they never had.
I remember in college at Delaware that the local KKK group across the border in Elkton would march occasionally. It showed up in the student paper, and it was basically 6-7 guys from around Elkton dressing up and marching down Main St. Thing is, no one really showed up to protest or do anything because it was just 6-7 guys from Elkton who were just out and out racists. They didn't have any power, they didn't accomplish anything with their racism, so who really cared that they were walking down the street? If it was a weekend there was either a football game to attend or 10,000 other, better things to do than worry about organizing a protest of 1,000 people to yell and scream at these 6-7 guys. They didn't matter then, and they don't matter now.