Sunday, March 19, 2023

Stand Back and Stand By In Mommy's Basement

 
     So, this is what happened today on 7th Avenue in Manhattan... 
     A bunch of Proud Boys douchebags got wind of a Drag Time story event that was attended by New York Attorney General, Letitia James, and decided it would be a corker of an idea to go protest outside the venue. Things kind of went downhill from that point on.
     Some New Yorkers took exception to the presence of the Proud Boys and their incoherent bellowing and violence broke out.
     Now, the Proud Boys are infamous from coast to coast for being a street-brawling gang who never shy away from a physical challenge. Hell, they were at the nation's Capitol on January 6th to burnish their street creds as a right proper conservative group that doesn't take shit from anyone.
     At least until they got to Seventh Avenue in Manhattan.
     One of the aforementioned bags o' douche got beaten and bloodied, forcing him to turn tail and complain, “I Came Here to Help People, Not Get the Shit Beat Out of Me.” It's unclear whom they were trying to help but the fact remains that their proffered help was not accepted in the spirit in which it was dubiously proffered.
     Word of advice, tough guy: If you go where you're not wanted to needlessly stir shit up, this is what happens, snowflake. Now go back to Mommy's house in Long Island and lick your wounds. 
     And this whole victimhood mentality goes straight to the heart of the right wing mentality- It's always acceptable to scream talking points that aren't true but it's not OK if people push back. That especially goes if violence breaks out.
     Well, everybody has the right to protest and speak their peace provided it isn't hate speech and serves the equivalent of yelling "Fire" in a crowded theater. And what they seem incapable of understanding is that sometimes, free speech, especially incendiary rhetoric, sometimes has consequences. Their whole mindset revolves around the inflexible belief that no one else should have free speech but them, they were there, after all, to protest a drag story time event. But if anyone else even opposes that hate speech, they're automatically the victims.
     If the SA or Brownshirts, aka the Bund were meaningfully opposed in the 20s and 30s, they would've said the same thing. "Why are they assaulting us? We only wanted to help! Who cares about a few broken windows?"
     In other words, right wingers show us time and again, they can dish it out but they can't take it. The violence they're willing to dish out to others, to innocents, suddenly becomes unacceptable when it's dished out to them.
     Sorry, boys, that's not the way the world works. And no matter how many times you protest drag story times and looking like a bunch of bloated bumblebees, don't expect not there to be some significant pushback.

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