By adamg on Wed., 6/5/2019 - 9:51 am
An alleged "straight pride" parade through the Back Bay and the South End planned for Aug. 31 made Buzzfeed yesterday, so you know people were talking about it.
The group that's allegedly planning the parade, whose alleged leaders include one of the "Resist Marxism" guys who like to march on the Common or just stand on the Parkman Bandstand, won a big victory. So now they just have to wait until, oh, Aug. 1, when they can claim they have to cancel the event because of threats from antifa, or Marty Walsh, or antifa and Marty Walsh, and get even more publicity.
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I would be fine with that if
By berkleealum
Fri, 06/07/2019 - 7:32am
I would be fine with that if it were true, but there are too many people at the top of the food chain in this country that have the same just let them be attitude.
To me, the problem is that you (read: people who hold that view) are expecting the rise of Nazis to look like a million perfectly aligned soldiers with matching uniforms gathered on Pennsylvania Ave while President Trump addresses them from the South Lawn.
In fact, the kind of creeping fascism we're seeing looks more like the president of the united states "joking" with police officers telling them to rough suspects up. One who invokes the word "we" when addressing the military despite having never served in any law enforcement or military capacity. One who was ready to invoke the Insurrection Act to allow the military to police the border. The examples go on.
These clips are from the only news source the President indulges.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/fox-nation-host-tomi...
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/06/hannit...
We are experiencing the bending of truth to suit white people's feelings of replacement. It's real and choosing to ignore it is not great.
Correction:
By Roman
Fri, 06/07/2019 - 8:07am
We are experiencing the bending of truth to suit
white people's feelings of replacement.the need of people who are prosperous and safe (and have been for generations), to find moral justification for their existence by fighting the metaphorical dragon, and to conjure up the worst version of that dragon from their imaginations in the absence of real dragons.In the absence of any threat like one million uniformed soldiers marching down the Champs-Elysees, or a carrier strike group lurking just beyond the horizon ready to bomb American territory, they conflate the small number of real racists and neo-Nazis in this country (count the torches in Charlottesville: it's a big-ish number for a small town but a tiny number for the whole country), with the much larger number of people who like to make edgy jokes and the even larger number of people who think national borders are not only imaginary lines in the sand.
It's real and choosing to ignore it is not great, given that it's much more substantially documented than the supposed Nazis lurking under your bed.
George Carlin used to say that when fascism came here, it wouldn't be with swastikas, but with smiley-faces. Ask a simple question: whose propaganda is telling you that the speaker is doing what he's doing for your "safety" and to "reduce harm" from the dangerous subversives in our midst?
whose propaganda is telling
By berkleealum
Fri, 06/07/2019 - 8:51am
That would be Donald Trump’s right-wing. See: the “crisis at the borderâ€.
So there is no problem at the border?
By Roman
Fri, 06/07/2019 - 8:03pm
There is nothing about the Obama way of running the border that is no longer tenable? Nothing to see here, move along folks?
You're certainly entitled to that opinion, but if you can step outside yourself, and imagine the mindset of a person who thinks it is the duty of their elected government to enforce the line between where American law applies and where it does not, could you understand why that someone would not interpret the President's pronouncements on the border as fascist propaganda?
I mean it’s well worn news by
By berkleealum
Sat, 06/08/2019 - 8:52am
I mean it’s well worn news by now that the Obama administration actually ratcheted up the deportation machine.
As far as I can tell, there’s only a crisis at the border when there’s damaging news to drown out. The actual numbers have never supported Trump’s claims of an uptick in illegal immigration.
Let’s not even talk about the fact that Trump himself employ(s/ed) scores of so-called illegal immigrants at his resorts and hotels.
It's back up to about a million a year
By Roman
Sat, 06/08/2019 - 9:30am
That was a big enough number during the Bush years to justify a bipartisan vote for a border "fence."
I think I misread your
By cden4
Wed, 06/05/2019 - 2:39pm
I think I misread your "loonie" comment. When I first read it, I thought you were referring to gay people as loonies, but it seems that you were referring to the organizers of the straight pride parade.
Regardless, though, as much as you may not want to be, you are a member of many groups based on the traits you were born with. You can focus on your individuality all you want, but the fact that you can do so probably means that the groups you do belong to are the majority and aren't being persecuted or mistreated.
If you look at the comment
By John
Wed, 06/05/2019 - 11:58am
If you look at the comment "Loonies" were clearly meant for the Straight Parade. He then goes on to say that he also thinks the whole Gay Parade concept is not his cup of tea either but does not call them loonies.
If you read the whole thing , in context, it is clear that he hold contempt for the Straight Parade organizers and just does not care about the Gay Parade Organizers
and so it begins, yet again...
By berkleealum
Wed, 06/05/2019 - 11:13am
we have what, 2-3 hours before Roman gets here?
shutting down comments on that last contentious post was the best thing for everyone.
Why am I not surprised
By Coyote137
Wed, 06/05/2019 - 11:54am
that you felt the need to weigh in on behalf of these cretins? As long as it's a group of trash people, you just need to stop by and say, "Well what they're doing is LEGAL!!"
Congratulations, because that's the best that could possibly said about them.
Some of my best friends are
By anon
Wed, 06/05/2019 - 10:30am
Some of my best friends are straight.
I don't mind those straight
By anon
Wed, 06/05/2019 - 10:31am
I don't mind those straight people but the breeding thing needs to stop.
I wouldn't worry about it
By BostonDog
Wed, 06/05/2019 - 11:42am
Not many of those guys are going on dates.
The parade
By anon
Wed, 06/05/2019 - 10:37am
Will consist of ten white suburban males who march to the tune of a different drummer. accompanied by a couple of hundred cops on double time.
The city forces us to work
By anon
Wed, 06/05/2019 - 1:05pm
The city forces us to work these parades.
Believe me, there’s much better things I’d love to be doing on the weekends than protecting a bunch of homophobic men marching through our city, while I think to myself how ironic it is that the vast majority of them are probably just angry virgins anyway.
- a Boston Cop
It’s one of those men only
By Heather
Thu, 06/06/2019 - 7:06pm
It’s one of those men only events where they all get drunk afterwards and what happens happens?
straight pride parade
By bostnkid
Wed, 06/05/2019 - 10:39am
can anyone say LGBTQ flashmob?
sounds good
By Michael
Wed, 06/05/2019 - 10:50am
I'll buy a round of milkshakes
Yes
By erik g
Wed, 06/05/2019 - 11:53am
Lactose Against Intolerance. The Brits are on to something.
Oh look. Calls for mob violence.
By Roman
Wed, 06/05/2019 - 6:38pm
A d why should the masses heed this call to stab their torches, pitchforks, and milkshakes, you might ask, oh levelheaded reader?
Because some internet rando, citing no actual evidence beyond the reverberations in the Twitter echo chamber, has declared the target of his ire to be a Nazi. That's why.
Hey, Mom must have turned your internet back on!
By lbb
Thu, 06/06/2019 - 9:20am
It's Fact-Free Roman again, turning a comment about milkshakes into torches and pitchforks! Hey, was it the reference to a flash MOB that triggered you?
I'm a little sad
By Michael
Thu, 06/06/2019 - 9:38am
Roman's stopped being funny, and started being concerning. I hope he has some people in real life that are close to him and can tell him with love that he needs something new in his life.
I think he does.
By erik g
Thu, 06/06/2019 - 12:16pm
They're planning a parade on August 31st.
He's like Trump in that regard
By lbb
Fri, 06/07/2019 - 10:05am
He's like Trump in that regard: obviously got some kind of problem of the sort that, were there anyone in his life who genuinely cared about him, they'd be pulling his coat about it.
Did anyone notice the date?
By lbb
Wed, 06/05/2019 - 10:52am
The date of this getalifer suburban idjit's "pride march" is August 31.
In Boston.
Think about it...
I wonder if the city did that
By anon
Wed, 06/05/2019 - 11:20am
I wonder if the city did that on purpose?
The city doesn't determine dates for parades, real or imagined
By adamg
Wed, 06/05/2019 - 11:25am
The alleged organizers picked that, and it just makes it easier for them to cancel before it happens.
zac brown band?
By bostnkid
Wed, 06/05/2019 - 11:24am
a little bit of chicken fried?
Yup
By Anonyoulongtime
Wed, 06/05/2019 - 11:31am
Logistical nightmare lol
Somebody PLEASE help me...
By Old Groucho
Wed, 06/05/2019 - 1:18pm
I'm dense, what does it mean?
Far as I can tell we've got some new country something or other at Fenway and a Drag Show.
Do you mean students coming back?
my god, I feel so stupid....
Yes, students
By lbb
Thu, 06/06/2019 - 9:21am
It's the Saturday of Labor Day weekend. What a shit show.
Also known as...
By GoSoxGo
Fri, 06/07/2019 - 12:16pm
Allston Christmas Eve.
Okay, I'm completely missing
By Rob
Wed, 06/05/2019 - 6:01pm
Okay, I'm completely missing it. What else is happening Aug 31 that makes the choice of Aug 31 for this march any more interesting?
Moving weekend. The whole
By ZachAndTired
Wed, 06/05/2019 - 6:46pm
Moving weekend. The whole city will be clogged with U-Hauls that day.
Oh! The plot thins.
By Rob
Wed, 06/05/2019 - 8:14pm
Oh! The plot thins.
I was googling history calendar websites, looking for something profound on an August 31st and maybe some sort of tie to Boston. Best I could come up with was the Shay's Rebellion.
(facepalm) me too
By Old Groucho
Thu, 06/06/2019 - 2:06pm
Im over here pulling out protractors and slide rules trying to figure out if it's some kinda code.
LOL
Christmas in September
By Daan
Wed, 06/05/2019 - 7:05pm
When last year's Ikea furniture is recycled.
Maybe the group can upgrade
By Rob
Fri, 06/07/2019 - 8:39am
Maybe the group can upgrade from last year's Radio Shack bullhorn - stop at Allston/Brighton Christmas on the way in and pick up a karaoke machine & speakers.
Oh, it's kind of brilliant
By Ari O
Thu, 06/06/2019 - 9:49pm
It's the Saturday of Labor Day weekend. Everyone who can get out of the city does. Most anyone left is celebrating Allston Christmas Eve by shearing off the top of their UHaul or triple-parking on a one-lane street in Allston. They really should make them march through Allston, though, climbing over piles of bedbug-infested couch cushions. FREEDOM!
Will Boston celebrate
By anon
Wed, 06/05/2019 - 11:01am
Will Boston celebrate traditional lifestyles and hoist the Straight Pride flag over city hall?
Hypothetically, you mean?
By adamg
Wed, 06/05/2019 - 11:26am
Probably not. The city has already won a court battle over that (although, to be fair, the issue is currently before a federal appeals court).
I bet nobody will hear them
By mediaseth
Wed, 06/05/2019 - 11:28am
They'll probably forget a bullhorn or some kind of PA like they did last time on the common, and misdirect the blame.
Shock the Squares!
By Kapil
Wed, 06/05/2019 - 11:34am
If this does happen, my prediction is that the parade itself is fairly tame. For maximum effectiveness, they would be wise to utilize the Shock-The-Squares strategy. This would be essentially the white, heterosexual version of assless chaps on a parade float.
Anyone know what that would be? I am envisioning a parade float with a bunch of young, white, heterosexual couples sporting generic haircuts and conservative attire re-enacting a dance, like a Christian church-sponsored mixer.
But...
By lbb
Wed, 06/05/2019 - 11:38am
...they do this all the time anyway.
It's called a "Duck Boat Tour".
Dare I note
By Waquiot
Wed, 06/05/2019 - 11:40am
That this thing has nothing to do with being white, let alone ideas of white supremacy?
Just throwing it out there.
I'm sure it has nothing to do
By erik g
Wed, 06/05/2019 - 11:49am
with the fact that the organizer is a self-identified white supremacist, and that Rhode Island has stopped giving him permits for his white supremacist marches so he's moved his Parade of Dicks up here instead.
Aww, man
By erik g
Wed, 06/05/2019 - 11:52am
I hit "save" about three seconds before realizing I'd missed a golden portmanteau opportunity:
We shall hereafter refer to these proceedings as the "Dickboat Parade".
I can honestly say
By Waquiot
Wed, 06/05/2019 - 4:36pm
I have (or had) no idea what this guy’s shtick is. Just seems like an attention seeker to me. Still, this, at least on the surface, isn’t about race. It’s about “straight pride.â€
Dickboat Parade is pretty awesome.
Waquoit's selective blinders
By lbb
Thu, 06/06/2019 - 9:23am
The most reliable thing in the universe: your willingness to extend every possible benefit of the doubt, despite mountains of evidence otherwise, towards any white guy being an asshole
So far
By Waquiot
Thu, 06/06/2019 - 1:08pm
I've heard about this here and in the Globe, Herald, and Metro, but still, I don't see how A ("straight pride") gets us to D ("white supremacists"), but if your thought is that having whatever "straight pride" is correlates to being a white supremacist, I'd have to say you don't talk to a lot of non-white people about issues of sexual orientation.
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