Summary

A group of masked men with Nazi flags protested outside a performance of “The Diary of Anne Frank” in Howell, Michigan, shouting antisemitic slurs.

Audience members were reportedly frightened and needed escorts to their cars. The Fowlerville Community Theatre, which staged the play, described the protesters’ presence as a disturbing reminder of the fear faced by Holocaust victims.

The Anti-Defamation League condemned the display. The incident follows other recent displays of racism in the area.

  • ChicoSuave@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    They had a flag! Why call them anything other than Nazis protesting outside Anne Frank theater performance? Corpo-fascist apologists.

    • b161@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      8 months ago

      Only people against the genocide of Palestinians and against Zionism get to be called Nazis and anti-semites.

      People waving actual Nazi flags are “free speech advocates” or “demonstrators”, and certainly not Nazis.

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      8 months ago

      Man,you’re talking like it’s 2016. Or even 2023.

      Buckle up for the next 4+ years. Holy shit.

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      8 months ago

      I made a comment on another thread that seems to have been deleted for being a duplicate:

      If you’re wondering why CNN is calling them “demonstrators” and not “actual fucking nazis”…

      The billionaires weren’t shy about why they bought CNN:

      “I would like to see CNN evolve back to the kind of journalism that it started with, and actually have journalists, which would be unique and refreshing,” he said. Then he suggested a model: “Fox News, in my opinion, has followed an interesting trajectory of trying to have ‘news’ news, I mean some actual journalism, embedded in a program schedule of all opinions.”

      https://www.vox.com/2022/8/26/23322761/cnn-john-malone-david-zaslav-chris-licht-brian-stelter-fox-peter-kafka-column

      And they don’t care if what they’re saying is true anymore, they care if people believe it’s true already:

      Zaslav said this past week there was a new [YouGov] poll showing overall trust in the U.S. for CNN up 11 points. “That’s what we are going for. Our view is there’s advocacy networks on either side, that we have the best journalists in the world, we need to show both sides of every issue.”

      https://deadline.com/2023/05/cnn-republicans-warner-bros-discovery-david-zaslav-1235371510/

      When one side is literal nazis, showing both sides means treating Nazis like normal demonstrators.

      None of these billionaires are buying up media to inform people, or even just to make more money.

      They buy them to control the narrative. So that regardless of what party someone votes for, the wealthy always win

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      8 months ago

      As Nazis are. Bunch of scared, racist pedos (and before you come at me for the pedo comment, just take a moment and look up how many Nazis have pedo charges)

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      And I thought masks were bad. Not just bad, but downright dangerous.

      That’s what we kept being told all through COVID.

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      It’s a lovely little town. You’d never know driving through. I even used to work there briefly, never saw a single hint of racism. They have a pretty good Thai restaurant.

      Of course, I also never saw a single black person there. I briefly contemplated moving there and then just quietly voting against all their bullshit, but I don’t really want to be that close to folks like that. Certainly don’t want my kids around it.

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    8 months ago

    That’s some hateful shit there. It’d be just such a shame if a group of pissed off Dad’s jumped these motherfuckers and smashed their faces in with baseball bats. Those cunts deserve far worse too.

    What’s even worse is that nobody cleared this group of douchebags out of there. I see that shit in my town, fuck the law, those assholes are cruisin for a bruisin. If I can’t take them on by hand, my truck will plow through them pretty good.

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    8 months ago

    The fact that such hateful people still exist in the world is staggering. Anne Frank was only 15 years old when she died, so not only are they being incredibly racist, they’re also mocking the death of an innocent child. We only get to live on this planet for a short time, so why can’t we just love eachother?

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      Yeah, but it was more of an issue with people being unable to bother stopping it. People could’ve gone and voted and we wouldn’t be here but they have bullshit excuses, so meh! Those non voters are guaranteed to move forward with the “what are y’all so upset about again? The parties are the same anyhow” line of shit as we feel the effects of fascism set all the way in.