So there was a bit of a battle in Berkeley on Saturday between a motley crew of alt-rightists who wanted to give some speeches and a bunch of anti-fascist (antifas) who didn’t want them to.
Things got a bit, well, heated, with the alt-right anti-antifas going on a bit of a rampage.
https://twitter.com/shane_bauer/status/853353232151609344
Yes, that’s right, that was one baseball-hatted defender of “free speech” carrying a golf club on the off chance that he might stumble upon a golf course in the middle of the protests, I guess.
I don’t know if that guy used his golf club on any of the antifas, but there were definitely a lot of alt-rightists using their fists.
https://twitter.com/DJTJohnMiller/status/853401848287379456
The “Proud Boys” considered the day to have been a glorious victory.
https://twitter.com/MikeEnochTRS/status/853375610277777408
Hail Victory! https://t.co/EsAd0KYiXt
— Richard Spencer (@RichardBSpencer) April 15, 2017
https://twitter.com/irmahinojosa_/status/853441335054958593
https://twitter.com/jackhatesme/status/853407789066178560
https://twitter.com/ProudBoysCA/status/853337688056909824
While capturing flags is, I guess, quite thrilling, what has the alt-rightists most excited is that bit at the end of ??MAGS4?Trump‘s clip above — in which one anti-antifa dude, identified by assorted observers as white supremacist Nathan Damigo, punched an antifa woman in the face.
https://twitter.com/NEETOBO3/status/853368940407345154
https://twitter.com/HarmlessYardDog/status/853371643414151168
https://twitter.com/irrepressably/status/853405160147746816
The punch was quickly memeified.
So now we have this Punch a Communist in the face meme floating around. #berkeleyprotests pic.twitter.com/19atL33nQn
— RAMZPAUL (@ramzpaul) April 16, 2017
https://twitter.com/EvropaAwakening/status/853416124335104000
Meanwhile, some of the biggest celebrity alt-right fellow travelers — who have gone to great lengths to deny being alt-rightists themselves — cheered on the violence. Some were there.
#Berkley pic.twitter.com/aiqUdLIzx3
— RAMZPAUL (@ramzpaul) April 16, 2017
https://twitter.com/Gavin_McInnes/status/853311216596525057
https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/853378458520563716
https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/853408096953257984
https://twitter.com/Lauren_Southern/status/853356615021453312
Southern, ostensibly a journalist, was one of those who was there to witness the “victory” in person, wearing a MAGA helmet and accompanied by “Proud Boy” bodyguards.
https://twitter.com/shane_bauer/status/853367513626759169
Meanwhile, one fellow who’s a bit more honest about his allegiences than many of the alt-right fellow travelers looked toward the future with cautious optimism.
https://twitter.com/NEETOBO3/status/853465353673883648
https://twitter.com/NEETOBO3/status/853466123722936320
https://twitter.com/NEETOBO3/status/853468508679675905
https://twitter.com/NEETOBO3/status/853469689061621760
So how was your Saturday?
Jokuvaan,
Why are you splaining what tradition chivalry is when the context you used the word in is clearly the meaning that Viscaria described?
Unless you think feminism is about getting rid of medieval chivalric code?