{"id":42672,"date":"2020-08-26T06:38:14","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T04:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=42672"},"modified":"2025-08-26T00:29:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T22:29:27","slug":"far-left-bullying-in-the-us-they-harass-a-woman-who-refused-to-raise-her-fist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2020\/08\/26\/far-left-bullying-in-the-us-they-harass-a-woman-who-refused-to-raise-her-fist\/","title":{"rendered":"Far-left bullying in the US: they harass a woman who refused to raise her fist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Communists and Nazis staged a violent competition of hate for freedom in the 20th century. Today the far-left follows in the footsteps of those totalitarians.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2020\/06\/12\/anti-racism-black-lives-matter-attacks-a-memorial-to-the-victims-of-communism\/\">Anti-racism? Black Lives Matter attacks a memorial to the victims of communism<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2020\/08\/01\/as-nazis-and-communists-did-far-leftists-burn-books-specifically-bibles-in-the-usa\/\">As nazis and communists did: far-leftists burn books (specifically Bibles) in the USA<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p><big>Restaurant customers were forced to raise their fists<\/big><\/p>\n<p>This Monday, <strong>supporters of the far-left movement Black Lives Matter<\/strong>, which has been leading acts of violence, looting and vandalism in various parts of the United States,<strong> held a demonstration in Washington DC.<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KunkleFredrick\/status\/1298344285079838720\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fredrick Kunkle<\/a> explained yesterday on Twitter that the demonstration began in the Columbia Heights neighborhood, in the northwest of the city, a neighborhood with many restaurants. During their tour, <strong>the protesters were coercing the white customers who were on the terraces to raise their fists in support of the march,<\/strong> shouting \"white silence is violence.\"<\/p>\n<p><big>They harass a woman who refused to make that gesture of submission<\/big><\/p>\n<p>The fear of possible retaliation from a radical and violent mob paid off, until the demonstration reached the Adams Morgan neighborhood. There<strong> they ran into a woman named Lauren who refused to raise her fist.<\/strong> The friend who accompanied her on the terrace did raise her fist, but she refused. In a scene that seemed recorded in a totalitarian regime, <strong>the far-left protesters surrounded her, shouting and insulting her and facing her to make that gesture of submission towards them.<\/strong> An act of harassment and coercion that lasted \"several minutes\", according to Kunkle.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XGmk7OVN4e0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><big>The precedent of the German who refused to do the Nazi salute<\/big><\/p>\n<p><strong>Lauren's bravery in front of these bullies has led to gestures of admiration towards her on social networks<\/strong>, with some netizens calling her a heroine. Seeing her gesture, it is inevitable to remember <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/August_Landmesser\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the case of August Landmesser<\/a>, a worker at the Blohm+Voss shipyard in Hamburg, Germany, who became famous for appearing in a photograph taken on June 13, 1936 during the launch of a ship. <strong>While all his companions did the Nazi salute, August stood with his arms crossed.<\/strong> The photo became famous in 1991, when it was published by the German newspaper Die Zeit. Today, <strong>August symbolizes the courage of one who refuses to show submission to totalitarianism.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50268522428_97d0653efa_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>My applause to Lauren for her courage in front of those fanatics<\/strong>, and my thanks to the far-left protesters, for showing us once again that <strong>they are the same ideological rubbish as the fascists they claim to hate.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Communists and Nazis staged a violent competition of hate for freedom in the 20th century. Today the far-left follows in the footsteps of those totalitarians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,10373],"tags":[10057,10497,10431,2207],"class_list":["post-42672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-world","tag-black-lives-matter","tag-far-left","tag-united-states","tag-washington-dc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42672"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}