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I'm less likely to assume humor given what's going on in politics.

You can think marxism sucks (I do) without torchlight marches and nazi naming schemes.

The latter is something else.



FWIW this was all several years ago. I don't know if the mail server still exists with the same name.

And I still don't know what's wrong with a torchlight hike/march. (They call it a hike, you call it a march) It sounds like something I'd do.


They did Tiki torch march a couple weeks after Charlottesville, which am sure is just another unfortunate coincidence. Can happen to anyone!


They did it in Germany, where Charlottesville was likely a 30 second news clip that everyone forgot about.

Stop with the cultural imperialism, race relations in the US are rather unique.


I am in Europe, it was top news for many days.


Even unrelated to Charlottesville torch walks generally have right wing connotations, as it was a traditional show of force by the Nazis. In Germany these days you mostly see them done as right wing rallies. As one data point, here[0] you can see NPD members calling for protest holding torches (during broad daylight).

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4QUC0aXN8M


Maybe it's just wildly bad self-awareness mixed with being obnoxious, but maybe it's not: https://www.cnn.com/2017/08/12/us/white-nationalists-tiki-to...

The torches are used as a symbol - might be nothing, but paired with speaking out against cultural marxism it's more likely to be intentional than it otherwise would be.

I don't know, but I'm not giving them the benefit of the doubt since the mail server is fairly explicit if true.

When people tell you who they are, believe them.


In addition to that, "Cultural Marxism" doesn't just refer to Marxism. It's an antisemitic canard used pretty much exclusively by the far right.


I looked it up on wikipedia. But it was like learning monads from wikipedia. It's a dense nest of jargon that just leaves me wondering which way is up if I spend more than a few minutes following links.




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