The brazen appearance of white supremacist groups in Nashville left the city grappling with how to confront hateful speech without violating First Amendment protections.
They first arrived at the beginning of July: dozens of masked white supremacists, shuffling out of U-Hauls, to march through Nashville carrying upside-down American flags.
A week later, members of a separate neo-Nazi group, waving giant black flags with red swastikas, paraded along the city’s famed strip of honky-tonks and celebrity-owned bars. The neo-Nazis poured into the historic Metro courthouse to disrupt a City Council meeting, harassed descendants of Holocaust survivors and yelled racist slurs at young Black children performing on a downtown street.
The appearance of white nationalists on the streets of a major American city laid bare the growing brazenness of the two groups, the Patriot Front and the Goyim Defense League. Their provocations enraged and alarmed civic leaders and residents in Nashville, causing the city to grapple with how to confront the groups without violating free speech protections.
If you punch a nazi, and you get two friends to punch a nazi and then they get two friends to punch nazis, before you know it, everyone is punching nazis.
My favorite shampoo commercial, even better
You can’t go around punching cops.
You’re not allowed to, but you definitely can.
Not for very long, unfortunately
Make the world a better place
Punch a Nazi in the face
I need that on a t-shirt
My ex worked at a local screen printing shop, and I hung out there a lot and made some cash during big orders. I went to the owner with a simple “punch more nazis” design I made stoned, half jokingly asked him to burn the design so my ex could print it for me.
It was the business version of that genie “thats dope you still have 3 wishes” meme - “yea I’ll burn it in the morning you know where the extras (leftover unused shirts) are 🤷♂️”
We never got along super well but we knew where we agreed lmao
The brazen appearance of white supremacist groups in Nashville left the city grappling with how to confront hateful speech without violating First Amendment protections.
The neo-Nazis poured into the historic Metro courthouse to disrupt a City Council meeting,
Arrest. Them. Holy shit, that’s something that in any reasonably sized city would be worth at least a night in jail to cool off, even if you were some fucking normie instead of a neonazi fuck. It’s not that fucking hard.
Both you and @FlyingSquid@lemmy.world are arguing the same point. The only difference is @FlyingSquid@lemmy.world wants nobody arrested and you want to also arrest the Nazis.
First of all ACAB let it be known. However I think it’s more likely to get a local city council to allow for anyone using intimidating imagery, (defined by swastika and similar iconography) to be detained and removed from chambers. It’s been done elsewhere with great effect.
The issue is how to get it enforced because unfortunately, those that burn crosses are the same that join forces.
https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/54960/public-display-of-swastika-in-the-us
Treat them like our American predecessors did. If they’re wearing swastikas then shoot the fuckers.
Sounds right to me. Nazis invaded Europe, tried to take over the world, and slaughtered millions in gas chambers. The US military should be deployed to arrest or neutralize Nazis whenever they appear.
For starters, it can not arrest the bartender that punched a nazi after that nazi started a fight.
My dude didn’t deserve to be arrested, he deserved to drink for free throughout Lower Broadway!
Yeah, I don’t give a flying fuck about a Nazi’s First Amendment rights, just like they don’t give a flying fuck about anyone else’s rights.
Jake and Elwood knew how to handle it.
Arrest them for an unlawful assembly like they do to everyone else they don’t want marching.
No, that’s only for black people and Muslims. “Unlawful” assembly for neo-nazis is just met with a shrug.
How would the pigs marching there arrest themselves?
Gather up all of your neighbors and go punch some Nazi trash.
The greatest generation knew how to deal with Nazis. Flamethrowers, bombs, artillery & bayonets. That’s all the conversation needed.
No, no, you see, war is bad, therefore, we should take the high road and let the Nazis slaughter us while we lodge diplomatic complaints at the UN in the hope of getting them to stop, eventually, someday. /s
Removed by mod
100%
lol. My comment about killing Nazis got removed by these right-wing mods
About time to put these “stand your ground” laws to work.
lol. My comment about killing Nazis got removed by these right-wing mods
Point.
Laugh.
Call them “weird”.
Make them realize how unpopular they really are.
Briefly, then go all out ignoring them
Turn on the sprinklers.
Laugh at and ridicule them. Make it very clear that you aren’t scared of them and that they’re rejects of society who amount to nothing. Take away their sense of power and they’ll leave. It’s worked in the past on several occasions.
“Take off your mask and pose for a picture, coward.”
Remind them that they are cowards again and again.
Why are you asking questions the mods won’t let me answer?
Ikr? Killing Nazis cannot be discussed? I’m pretty sure that’s 100% okay, and a global pastime. My comment was removed for saying it. 🤷♂️
That’s what happens when ya let neoliberals run things.
its only okay to defend yourself against Nazism AFTER they’ve spread propaganda, recruited, trained, and started putting people in camps.
I really hoped things would be better when we left reddit.
