I was here. There is no fucking way that I would have shown my face at a Nazi rally. That very night in Eugene the Nazi’s were going door to door looking for people to arrest. Of course, the article is saying that it was antifa who instigated… As if a literal Nazi rally isn’t instigative of itself.
I kindly disagree that showing your face makes people take you seriously. All it makes you is a target. I think the key factor is what is the protest for, as whether or not I wear a mask depends on what I am protesting. If I’m protesting a hate group or hateful ideology, I am going to keep myself safe. If I am protesting social and environmental issues I generally do not feel the need to.
Also, going to protests is inherently dangerous because peaceful protesters are not treated with peace. In that article I linked, tear gas was fired at us, the peaceful protesters, when the Nazi’s were the ones crossing the police lines. Also the police had their back to them the entire time, facing us with their riot shields. I wonder why the cops were protecting the Nazi’s at the “far-right” rally. Peaceful protesters against being treated with excessive force being met with excessive force… So honestly, no. Wearing a mask is necessary because you will be targeted and will be followed home.
The thing about peaceful protests is that they are almost impossible, because a peaceful protest is inherently the peaceful protesters dying for their cause by not retaliating. No, I don’t think we should allow Nazi’s to assault people in walking aides and attempt to stop on them. No, I don’t think peaceful protesters who are being attacked by police should just let the cops beat them to death. And even if we did, they would still label us as anything but peaceful protests.
FFS, there’s so much evidence of planted and instigated protests, like bricks being thrown by people not part of the protest but claiming that they were. Basically, there’s no such thing as a peaceful protest and so wearing a mask should be prioritize for the protesters safety.
Note: any right-wing or conservative protesters disregard this. Show the world who you really are! It’s the right thing to do!
As I have repeatedly stated, the US is not a free country in this regard.
So mask away!
Haha I did happen to see one of those comments, it just ended up being after I posted all this lol. But, I would have probably posted it anyway because it’s been on my mind a lot lately.
Thank you for hearing me :)
I understand, I believe heavily in trying to see the other guy’s logic even if I disagree with them.
Sadly the world in general has seen a rise of the far right, which I realize will make masked protests needed, even here in Sweden, I don’t like it, but I understand that it peobably is comming. But that is not today.
