Summary
Masked neo-Nazis marched through Columbus, Ohio’s Short North neighborhood on Saturday, displaying swastika flags and making racist and antisemitic statements.
Police are investigating, and no arrests have been reported.
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine and Columbus officials condemned the display, emphasizing that hate and bigotry have no place in the state.
The incident follows a similar demonstration in Michigan last week, where masked protesters displayed Nazi flags outside a performance of The Diary of Anne Frank.
I mean why wouldn’t that? Americans told them to be Nazi and proud this election after all.
Exactly!
Devine and other R politicians have no shame pandering for their votes, dog-whistles and all.
I mean hell, not even dog whistles this time. Trump and his allies were loudly shouting Nazi slogans publicly and there was no pushback.
I’m more shocked that they wear masks. They hate masks and they have no reason to hide their faces.
They know that they’re being bad. That’s why they’re wearing them.
Charge them with hate speech.
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No, but there’s the “fighting words” doctrine. Depending on the level of targeting of the hate speech, it may not he protected. Let’s use Mike Pence as an example because it was a whole thing 4 years ago.
Saying “Hang Mike Pence” to the air is probably protected. Whereas going to Mike Pence and saying “I’m going to hang you” isn’t.
The weird greyness is that telling someone to hang Mike Pence can also be a crime (e.g. conspiracy to commit murder or disturbing the peace), so the details and context matter.
Basically, if it’s a threat with teeth, it may not be protected. Being offensive is legal. Inciting a riot or threatening or provoking someone into attacking first is not.
For anyone curious.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech_in_the_United_States
Maybe it should be
It would be a shame if Nazis got massacred and noone saw what happened.
Tbh why are these neo-nazis soo cringe tho.
You mean it doesn’t make them look badass to be carrying intentionally edgelord versions of a swastika flag while wearing matching skull balaclavas in front of the shake shack?
No
It should be legal to just round up a bunch of people and beat the absolute piss out of these guys. Just a savage beating to within an inch of their lives, as a warning to anybody who thinks this shit is okay or cool.
Hell, why not take a car and just plow through it? Those fuckers are flagbearing an ideology that developed mass murder on an industrial scale. Let them feel a tiny bit of that on themselves.
What a bunch of losers, waiting until the generation is dead that would beat them to a pulp in the streets with their Hurry Canes and walkers.
deploy the caltrops
Deploy the horses with diarrhea brigade
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine and Columbus officials condemned the display, emphasizing that hate and bigotry have no place in the state.
Oh, but they do, as is evidenced by hateful bigots marching through the streets of your state capitol.
It’s like that time my old high school had a school shooting and some elected official was all like “no one could have predicted this” and I was like “my brother in Christ, I went to that high school. If no one predicted a mass shooter event then why the fuck weren’t we allowed long coats or backpacks? Why the metal detectors? Was it all for shits and giggles?”
Anyways, elected officials lie and it’s very upsetting to people that expect literal truth. Maybe it’s comforting to some?
Masks are for hiding from responsibility, not for acting responsibly. Acting responsibly is the way of the enemy.
Same people, I bet.
This will be normalized within the next 4 years.
Considering how passive the title is here I think maybe they’re normalized now.
No. No it won’t. They want to sensationalize this. Don’t buy into it.
“They” being the majority of Americans who looked at this as said “yeah, sure”.
Yeah nothing to report here, just some Nazis marching through US streets unmolested.
They were molested. The got in a few fights, pepper sprayed some people and then scuttled off to their U-Haul where the cops arrested them.
Can you elaborate on this?
I am not American (although I have lived there). I am just curious.
I am an American (and Jewish) and I have no fucking clue what they’re talking about. It has gotten worse and worse and worse.
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I have dual citizenship with the UK, which is where we plan to escape to, but New England is Plan B if I can’t find a job.
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We have good friends in Baltimore (a queer married couple) so it’s a better plan B than nothing.
When the masks come off, that’s when it’s really bad.
Oh, don’t worry. That was just the new Secretary of Defense and a few of his buddies out having a good time.
The fact this is literally the 2nd story this week of Nazi shitheads openly waving their flags around is a good indicator it’s not going to take nearly that long.
hate and bigotry is literally the only thing republicans agree on
I’ve seen more hate, violence, and bigotry from the left over the last year…
Oh pretty please indulge us with your tall tales of all the violence you’ve seen from the left since Nov of 2023.
Prove it.
sure you have, sweetie
Hallucinogenics are a hell of a drug…or did you just notsee what the entire GOP has become?
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Imagine having a brain so wasted and misused as to actually believe this.
It’s disrespectful to the forces of nature to treat your brain like this after so many millions of years of evolution.
Get yourself some help.
People calling you a nazi when you’re acting like a nazi doesn’t count.
The hate and bigotry: people being upset at being intentionally misgendered.
Nazis feel emboldened to march in multiple cities this year:
https://www.wgal.com/article/neo-nazi-march-harrisburg-pennsylvania-peace-rally/61971282
Nazis have been marching in Columbus for two years. This was just the first time they attacked people
The next time they’ll get the right police on shift first so they won’t be arrested for attacking people. Then no one speaks up the third time because no one is there to protect us and we’ve arrived at totally fucked.
I don’t know about you but I armed myself. I will help me.
This is America.
“We will not tolerate hate in Ohio,” Ohio Republican Gov. Mike DeWine said in a statement on the social media platform X on Saturday evening.
Talking from both sides of your ballot box, are we, Mike? Fucking moron. You support the hate candidate and you get a hate populace.
Don’t worry, he’ll get pushback on that statement and then declare Ohio the fifth reich. He always takes the right stance first then manages to flip flop to worse than he was asked to
Considering this was happening before the election was declared as well, I’m willing to take the stance that Ohio is just a magnet for trash Nazis.
I wonder what the amount of Trump gear vs Nazi flags was. It’s also very ironic how when Nazi’s march in the streets without a permit the cops just block off the street with their cars and perform crowd control to “help protect the city” (the Nazis). And when people of color march without a permit because cops killed another person over something stupid they get met with riot gear, tear gas, and rubber bullets.
It’s going to get so much worse before it gets better …
Remember that cops have no duty to protect. They protect who they like. They protect what they are.
To be fair they were severely understaffed for exactly the duration of the march for some mysterious reason.
Yep, racists are going to be racist.
If it gets better…
They harassed a local business, got confronted by the patrons there, and pepper sprayed them. Then, they got arrested for it.
