Trump fans' Deploraball party descends into chaotic infighting over Nazi salutes and book burnings

[progressoid]

It didn’t take long for the racist Trump fans organizing the “Deploraball” inauguration party to turn on each other.

A major fight has broken out among Trump’s white nationalist fans over whether they should celebrate Trump’s pending inauguration by showering him with Nazi salutes.

Alt-right leader Mike Cernovich, who is organizing the Deploraball, started a massive fight this week after he told popular alt-right Twitter personality @bakedalaska that he couldn’t attend the party if he was going to do Nazi salutes of the kind that white nationalist Richard Spencer encouraged during his talk at the National Policy Institute conference earlier this month.

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@bakedalaska’s fan base quickly rallied to his side — and one of them even showed his support by burning a copy of Cernovich’s book in protest.

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~~~ http://www.rawstory.com/2016/12/trump-fans-deploraball-party-descends-into-chaotic-infighting-over-nazi-salutes-and-book-burnings/

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

1. People seriously need to stop with this "alt-right" bullshit. They're white supremacists,

neo-Nazis or just Nazis. They're not a fucking musical style nor the latest dance craze.

[LonePirate]

2. Agreed. Journalists are denying reality by using this term in our new Twitterspeak world.

[Raster]

5. alt-Reich...

...much more honest and expressive in the original German.

[madinmaryland]

6. They are definitely the exact opposite of Robert Reich.

[lunatica]

14. But totally similar to the Hitlerian "Third Reich" which is what the poster is talking about

https://www.reference.com/history/nazi-government-called-third-reich-6e0a38209da206be

[madinmaryland]

15. I understand that. I was just reading a post by Robert Reich and I thought how these

nut jobs are the exact opposite of him.

I often refer to the Repubican Party as the Reich Wing.

[lunatica]

16. Sorry about that!

[madinmaryland]

19. No problem. Reading a two sentence post,

such as mine, doesn't give the reader the whole story (i.e. that I had just read a post by Robert Reich on facebook).

BTW, if you are on facebook, you should follow him. Lots of insightful comments from him. VERY pro-labor.

[lunatica]

20. He's a professor at UC Berkeley now

I see him every once in a while. I'm a fan of his.

[HassleCat]

3. Isn't it time to move on?

We know the Nazis were not that bad. We have the TV show Hogans Heroes and the motion picture The Producers. I think we can be good sports and accept the Nazi salute in the spirit in which it is offered, love and friendship.

[Charles Bukowski]

13. We need to reach out to these people!

They're... hurting!

SMH

[Loge23]

4. They have that book-burning thing down

What is it with the book-burning anyway?
These are among the very scum of the earth.

[progressoid]

7. At least they are burning their own this time.

So far.

[Loge23]

21. Yes - small favors! (eom)

[Initech]

8. And we have to put up with 4 years of that fucking bullshit.

[Takket]

9. oh please guys... do the salutes............

let's call this presidency what it is. the image of Trump taking the oath before a sea of Nazi salutes is exactly what this country needs to help wake itself up.

[lunasun]

11. Maybe more of the stupids will join them . This should not be encouraged among dolts

[lunasun]

10. We have a smilie for this

[progressoid]

12. Here's Richard Spencer in all his glory.

[frankieallen]

17. why are a group of Nazi fucks getting all this attention?

[orangecrush]

18. Orange Coast college republicans

Recently terrorized a Professor.


"For as long as she has taught, Cox, a professor at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, Calif., has prided herself on speaking freely. Then a clip of her calling Donald Trump’s election “an act of terrorism” went viral earlier this month, unleashing a wave of violent threats that forced her to end her semester early and flee her home in suburban Orange County."

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/grade-point/wp/2016/12/27/a-professor-called-trumps-election-an-act-of-terrorism-then-she-became-the-victim-of-terror/

Which bears a remarkable similarity to...

The Nazification of German universities Edit

April 8, 1933 - a memorandum to Nazi Student Organizations proposed that culturally destructive books from public, state and university libraries be collected and burned. The Deutsche Studentenschaft (German Students' Association) started its anti-Semitic action. In May 1933 books from university libraries, written by anti-Nazi or Jewish authors, were burned in squares, e.g. in Berlin, and the curricula were subsequently modified. Jewish professors and students were expelled according to the racial policy of Nazi Germany, see also the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service. Martin Heidegger became the rector of Freiburg University, where he delivered a number of Nazi speeches, see Heidegger and Nazism. On August 21, 1933 Heidegger established the Führer-principle at the university, later he was appointed Führer of Freiburg University.

Well-known expelled professors Edit

Albert Einstein
Max Born
Fritz Haber
Otto Fritz Meyerhof
Theodor W. Adorno
Martin Buber
Ernst Bloch
Max Horkheimer
Ernst Cassirer
Herbert Marcuse
Louis Hamilton

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_education_in_Nazi_Germany

It is time for decent people to act.

The time to start is now, not after Trump completes the coup.

I started with donations to the A.C.L.U. (the last line of defense, imo, our institutions have failed us),
and the E.F.F.

[progressoid]

22. Making America great again.