{"id":134288,"date":"2017-08-19T14:10:16","date_gmt":"2017-08-19T20:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=134288"},"modified":"2017-08-19T14:10:16","modified_gmt":"2017-08-19T20:10:16","slug":"laughing-at-nazis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/08\/19\/laughing-at-nazis.html","title":{"rendered":"Laughing at Nazis"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Counter-protesters in Charlotte, NC in 2012<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The idea of dealing with Nazis (et al.) by pointing and laughing<\/a> makes a seductive amount of sense.\u00a0Nazis, white supremacists, neo-fascists, KKKers seem to depend so much on being fierce and shouty and uber-ultra-manly \/ aggressive \/ assertive \/ alpha doggy. \u00a0Practicing “humorous subversion” seems to be effective in\u00a0Wunsiedel, Germany, where they not only meet annual gatherings of neo-Nazis with clowns and jokes, they actually treat the march the neo-Nazis\u00a0take as an “involuntary walkathon” —\u00a0garnering 10 Euro per meter from local individuals and businesses to donate to an organization that helps people get out of right-wing extremist organizations.<\/p>\n

As Thomas More put it<\/a>, “The devil … the proud spirit cannot endure to be mocked.”<\/p>\n

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The idea of dealing with Nazis (et al.) by pointing and laughing makes a seductive amount of sense.\u00a0Nazis, white supremacists, neo-fascists, KKKers seem to depend so much on being fierce and shouty and uber-ultra-manly \/ aggressive \/ assertive \/ alpha doggy. \u00a0Practicing “humorous subversion” seems to be effective in\u00a0Wunsiedel, Germany, where they not only meet … Continue reading “Laughing at Nazis”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[350,9,740],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-civil-liberties","category-politics-law","category-race-racism"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/laughing-at-nazis.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":29018,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/07\/bryan-fischer-is-a-dolt-nazis-were-liberals-edition.html","url_meta":{"origin":134288,"position":0},"title":"Bryan Fischer is a Dolt (Nazis Were Liberals Edition)","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 7-Aug-12 5:17pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm pretty sure I've debunked most of this in the past, but just for the record:1. 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