Leftist hate is OK
An interesting report from NYC
"What I don't tolerate, and what I believe the Constitution doesn't protect, is speech designed to provoke hate or violence against groups of people. Period. So, when I saw bright-green posters declaring, "DIE YUPPIE SCUM DIE," I recognized the hate speech.
Substitute "Yuppie" with "Jew," and you see what I mean. About 70 years ago, Hitler rallied his National Socialists against the Jews - mainly because the Jews could be easily singled out, but also because they were successful, and it was easy to convince the Germans that the reason for all of their feelings of loss or oppression were caused by the "rich Jews." It's nice to sneak hate in through the back door, isn't it?
So, in protest of these signs - calling for the death of total strangers, for no other reason than that they're perceived to be richer than us, and therefore the cause of all of our misery - I began taking them down.
After about 12 posters, I was approached by Jerry The Peddler, an East Village fixture, political activist, organizer and general hustler for the antiwar movement. He asked what I thought I was doing, and I showed him the poster and explained that it was hate speech and shouldn't be tolerated. He acknowledged that I was right - it was hate speech, and, he added, "I hate Yuppies." I told him he had no right to call for their death, as I reached to take down another of his hate-filled posters. He grabbed my left hand - technically an assault - and bent my finger back. "I'll break your fingers, so that you'll never play guitar again, and if I see anymore of these posters down.I'll kill you," he said. You know the look of hate, and he had it in his eyes.
This is the true antiwar movement. These are the peace activists that you see when you turn on your TV and see a report about a protest or riot in New York City: "Support the antiwar movement - or we'll kill you."
It doesn't matter to them that I've defended their right to express their views for the last 30 years; because I "question" their motives, they've decided that I have no right to exist.
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4 comments:
Not just an interesting story, but a typical one also. Few movements exhibit the kind of violence the so-called "peace" movement has been involved in for decades. Of course, they always blame the police.
What's sad, but also typical, is how their dupes, those mindless Kool-Aid drinkers who support these movements, simply go along with the same old Marxist/communist rhetoric without ever thinking or bothering to take a real look at what they're doing. And there are very few places where you'll find more of them than in Manhattan!
And yet another person has had the blinders forcibly removed from their eyes. Now the question is whether they'll repair the blinders and put them back on or if they'll take a look at the world they've been missing all this time and join the conservatives.
I think saying, "Jerry the Peddler" represents the entire anti-war movement is a stretch. Most anti-war folks I know, (I'm not one of them) believe that all pre-emptive war or violence is bad.
Next time Jerry grabs or threatens you, smack him. The guy sounds like nothing more than a bully. If he escalates, do the same.
He ... I do not like Jerry the Peddler's posters.
Next time, if his posters are illegal in your country, call the police. If posters are legal, vote for those who want to change that - until then, fight against Jerry's posters with your own written or spoken word, but don't take his posters down, it is violence of private property.
Jerry gone few step beyond minimal violence necessary for defending his private property, so he's guilty as well. So, no, I do not say that he is innocent. But neither you are.
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