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| 2017-04-20 |
| [Twitchy] To be honest, we’re less interested in what alt-right leader Richard Spencer said Tuesday night at Auburn University than it what the police patrolling the event were up to, which was especially shocking in the wake of the latest round of rioting in Berkeley. It is unlawful in Alabama to appear in public with a mask on except at Halloween. This was done to counter the KKK. Alabama was one of the first states to pass such a law. From video shot outside the venue, it appeared as though the police were enforcing the rules, which included a no-mask policy. That meant the members of the antifa, or anti-fascists, were made to uncover their faces as they marched past law enforcement toward the campus. There are quite a few gems spotted in this Spring 2017 runway collection, but we most like the knight with his trash can lid and shoulder pads, as well as the protester who was not about to have her bandana removed by The Man. |
| Posted by:Deacon Blues |
| #7 And now we know. Thank you, Deacon Blues. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2017-04-20 19:28 |
| #6 The origins of this term Redneck are Scottish and refer to supporters of the National Covenant and The Solemn League and Covenant, or "Covenanters", largely Lowland Presbyterians, many of whom would flee Scotland for Ulster (Northern Ireland) during persecutions by the British Crown. The Covenanters of 1638 and 1641 signed the documents that stated that Scotland desired the Presbyterian form of church government and would not accept the Church of England as its official state church. Many Covenanters signed in their own blood and wore red pieces of cloth around their necks as distinctive insignia; hence the term "Red neck", (rednecks) which became slang for a Scottish dissenter*. One Scottish immigrant, interviewed by the author, remembered a Presbyterian minister, one Dr. Coulter, in Glasgow in the 1940's wearing a red clerical collar -- is this symbolic of the "rednecks"? Since many Ulster-Scottish settlers in America (especially the South) were Presbyterian, the term was applied to them, and then, later, their Southern descendants. One of the earliest examples of its use comes from 1830, when an author noted that "red-neck" was a "name bestowed upon the Presbyterians." It makes you wonder if the originators of the ever-present "redneck" joke are aware of the term’s origins - Rednecks? |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2017-04-20 15:09 |
| #5 Thought it was because we spent so much time in the sun tending crops. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2017-04-20 13:09 |
| #4 The term 'rednecks' originates in one side (union members, I believe) wearing red bandanas so the head bashers would know who to avoid in a melee. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2017-04-20 13:02 |
| #3 So they're bitching about the no-mask rule? What this tells me is that the Antifas didn't spot the Alabama state police snipers. |
| Posted by: Matt 2017-04-20 10:05 |
| #2 This was done to counter the KKK. Of which the AntiFa is just another version of 'shut the man down' tyranny. Fitting and yet amusing that people who demand "self reflection" are incapable of doing it themselves. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-04-20 09:18 |
| #1 I've been wondering for some time just how these stalwart representatives of "free speech" manage to travel from place to place to attend their schedule of events, er, I mean protests. Daddies credit card maybe. |
| Posted by: Cheaderhead 2017-04-20 05:51 |