Diana’s Little Corner in the Nutmeg State: Shock Troops*

Monday, February 20, 2023

Shock Troops*

As a matter of fact the Proud Boys are down right disgusting! The are white supremist bigots

They are the shock troops of the Republican party, just like the Brownshirts were shock troops for the NAZIs in the 1930s.

Anti-LGBTQ+ protests are at an all-time high. A Proud Boys war on drag is a big reason why.
Business Insider
By Laura Italiano
February 4, 2023

Once a week on average in 2022, Proud Boys joined or led anti-LGBTQ+ protests held across the US.
Most of their demonstrating targeted drag performances; many involved violence and armed protesters.
Insider's interactive map shows what happened each time they joined anti-LGBTQ+ protests last year.
The Proud Boys are on the march against the LGBTQ+ community — and especially against drag performers.
No other militant, far-right group comes close to the Proud Boys' new-found dedication to public displays of homophobia, alarming new numbers show.
[…]
Out of 53 anti-LGBTQ rallies the extremist group led or joined in 2022, 60 percent were attempts to disrupt drag events with baseless taunts of "grooming" and "pedophilia" — efforts equally divided between adult-only performances and family-friendly parties and story hours.

What is different now than before is that they are armed!

Weapons — including paint guns, mace, pepper spray, fireworks, handguns, and rifles — are also turning up at these protests more often, the data shows.
Firearms were reported at 13 anti-LGBTQ protests in 2022, including in the hands of pro-LGBTQ+ counterprotesters. Nine of these armed protests happened in the last four months of the year.
"The only scary thing about a drag story hour is one of these conservative white men with a gun — it's not what we're reading, it's not what we're singing, it's not our arts and crafts projects," said Jonathan Hamilt, founder of the national Drag Story Hour organization, which supports 50 chapters around the US, bringing readings to public libraries and schools for seven years.

A conspiracy of far-right organization has formed where these white supremacists are coordinating their movements.

And it is only going to get worst as the anger on the right grows.

*Shock Troops

1: troops especially suited and chosen for offensive work because of their high morale, training, and discipline

2: a group of people militant in pressing for a cause

Merriam-Webster dictionary

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Quotes

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

A right delayed is a right denied.Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction.

Martin Luther King Jr.

No one is born hating another person… People must learn to hate and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
Nelson Mandela

We can disagree and still love each other, unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist
James Baldwin

There is a fine line between free speech and hate speech. Free speech encourages debate whereas hate speech incites violence.
Newton Lee

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
Albert Einstein

"The point is that there are always obstacles, whether they seem insurmountable or merely bothersome. The question is not how difficult the path, but whether in your heart, you wish to undertake the journey."
Zandru's Forge

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.
Mahatma Gandhi

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

You've Got To Be Carefully Taught
You've got to be taught
To hate
And fear
You've got to be taught
From year
To year
Its got to
Be drummed in your dear little ear
You've got to
Be carefully
Taught
You've got to be taught
To be
Afraid
Of people
Who's eyes are oddly made
And people who's skin is a different shade

South Pacific
Songwriters: Oscar Hammerstein II / Richard Rogers

Monday, February 20, 2023

Shock Troops*

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