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Related: About this forumMarsha Blackburn and the Proud Boys
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"Theres an old punk canard that if you walk into a venue where Nazis are hanging out and no one minds, you are in a Nazi venue. Theres also the one that goes, What do you call it when you sit down at a table with nine Nazis? Ten Nazis.
Same holds true for the Proud Boys. If youre at a rally where Proud Boys are a welcome and unchallenged part of the audience, then you are at a rally where Proud Boys are welcome. So, if you headed down to The Daily Wires Rally to End Child Mutilation on Friday, and you stood in the crowd next to Proud Boys, congratulations. You have picked a side.
The same goes for all the politicians who showed up there. In their coverage of Friday's event, the Scenes Hannah Herner and Matt Masters identified state Sen. Jack Johnson, state House Majority Leader William Lamberth, state Sen. Dawn White, state Sen. Ed Jackson and state Sen. Janice Bowling, as well as U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn, all at this rally with Proud Boys in attendance. I could not find any reporting that any of these politicians denounced the Proud Boys or refused to speak until they left.
Just to be clear, you can be a member of a group that organized Unite the Right with a whole bevy of white supremacists, a group that helped organize and participate in the Jan. 6 insurrection, a group that coalesced in the first place around a man with criminally ridiculous facial hair, and you can show up at a political rally in Nashville, and the most powerful Republicans in the state will be all, Hey, cool, Ill go talk to that crowd.....(more)
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Marsha Blackburn and the Proud Boys (Original Post)
Tanuki
Oct 2022
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Walleye
(35,661 posts)1. Marsha Blackburn has told us who she is over and over, believe her
LetMyPeopleVote
(154,427 posts)2. Who is surprised by this?
Blackburn and the Proud Boys are two peas in a pod
SheltieLover
(59,599 posts)3. TN is an international disgrace!