You know it's a sad day when an Alt-Right protester gets beaten up by a Neo-Confederate protester.

[DetlefK]

http://gizmodo.com/so-begins-the-alt-right-purity-spiral-1795017211

Yesterday, protesters and counter-protesters gathered around Lee Circle in New Orleans, the site of one of the state’s many monuments to Confederate figures which are now scheduled (over 150 years after the Civil War ended) to be torn down. Since the election of Donald Trump, we’ve seen many images like the one above from demonstrations that have turned violent. In this case, however, the man on the ground wasn’t hit by antifa or the police: America’s far right are beginning to turn on their own.

Dressed in metal armor and bearing an American flag, an unidentified man clashed with “Stars and Bars”-waving neo-Confederates guarding the monument of General Lee. In a Periscope video, the man claims to have traveled from Los Angeles to take part in the protest, and alludes to his involvement as a Trump supporter in the bloody and vicious streetfights that broke out in Berkley. “You guys don’t understand you’re working against the movement,” he tells a group of people who wanted to see the statue stay, referencing the obvious racial implications.



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As a commenter said: "casual racists are at odds with the hardcore racists."

[Throck]

1. Protest are starting to look like comic-con conventions.

I'm waiting for the Batmobile to show up.

[underpants]

2. Can't we all just get along?

[SecularMotion]

3. A microcosm of the republican party

[Tommy_Carcetti]

4. Did he at least use his bayonet?

That would be cool.

[Recursion]

5. He should get his money back for that suit of armor

Cause it didn't do a damn thing for him...

[nocalflea]

6. Purists vs. Pragmatists. Hmm ...

[dembotoz]

7. Future pay per view?

[Warren DeMontague]

8. "You got swastikas on my confederate flag!"

"You got confederate flag all over my swastikas!"