In observation of Memorial Day Weekend, a time when we honor the fallen soldiers that lost their lives fighting in wartime, white nationalist group (and actual Nazis), Identity Evropa, canvased Cleveland with their horrendous alt-right rhetoric.
Spotted around University Circle and RTA bus stops down Clifton in Lakewood, the white ethnonationalists (aka, Nazis), illegally placed signs with sayings like “Let’s Become Great Again,” clearly trying to grab the attention of Trump’s target fanbase.
Now, Evropa doesn’t call themselves Nazis, but rather a new movement for European Americans who feel they are being replaced through mass immigration and globalization. They are frequently seen holding banners with phrases like “Build The Wall” and were recently classified as a hate group by Southern Poverty Law.
You know, actual fucking Nazis.
Lakewood City Council Member, Tristan Rader personally pulled down many of the Lakewood signs, and posted a response on his blog.
“This overtly racist, Nazi propaganda, in my view, is hate speech,” he said. “We are a community that welcomes diversity.”
Given that Cleveland is one of the most segregated cities in America, propaganda like this is only going to continue to dismantle our sense of community.
“We are actively seeking to break down barriers that have caused hyper-segregation, lack of opportunity for minorities, disparity and many other serious issues relating to race.” Rader continued. “These posters are hateful and are promoting the exact opposite of what we are trying to achieve.”
These Nazis covered cities all across the country for Memorial Day, targeting many war memorial sites. Normally this is where we’d include a tweet or link to reference the locations of all of their documented attacks, but those obnoxious edgelords don’t deserve the traffic to their social media handles.
According to Rader, RTA has encouraged people to first take a photo of any of the remaining signs before removing it and documenting where they were seen and reporting it as a problem/concern to city hall. RTA did not approve the posting of these signs and per Rader’s blog, “Something of this nature would not have been approved, even if submitted to the proper channels.”
This article appears in May 23-29, 2018.
If you feel like taking down signs, you can remove those WE BUY HOUSES signs…anywhere. They are not only illegal, they are placed by fearmongers who focus on racial hatred.
Just DO IT! If the flippin “flippers” put them up higher, get a bigger ladder!
I see there is some massive confusion about what a “Nazi” is. A Nazi is a member of the National Socialist German Workers Party.
Ancestral pride is not naziism. BJ and Radar are both hysterical idiots who play a nice white guilt long game.
Picturing the bernie-bro dork, Tristan Radar, in his bowtie calling people on this made my morning.
Radar should stick to making dog breed laws for non-residents like he’s done all year. He’s a Socialist operative installed to cause problems for Lakewood.
First off a Nazi is defined now in 2018 as whatever people want it to be defined as – so dont get butthurt when you get labeled one. The term is a meme and is being appropriated for white nationalists, simple.
Secondly, any marketing material associated with white nationalism will be labeled as hate speech and subsequently not protected as free speech because it offends the status quo and can lead to violence, unlike a we flip houses sign.
Thirdly, ancestral pride is a misnomer, and a veiled attempt to make racism acceptable. Whites arent going anywhere for a while (like millennia) so you can ease up and relax. The US was not built to survive without a diverse population.
The hysterical leftists have labeled anyone with any opposing views as a “Nazi”. This cry of wolf has caused them to have to specify in the title that these were “actual nazis”. The left (including BJ, Tristan, etc) is far closer to the policies of the Nazi party and is trying to implement socialist policies identical to that of Nazi Germany. Even Antifa acts as Hitlers “brown shirts” to stir up trouble so they can come offer a solution that involved taking our rights away.
Nazi is not a term for white nationalist. White nationalist is a term for a white nationalist. Hate speech is protected by the Constitution because you don’t get to define hate speech.
Ancestral pride is fine. Remember, we was kangz.
It’s clear this was set up by Tristan Radar and this publication. He could have taken down the few flyers and threw them in the garbage can. Instead he took photos of the posters up and in his hands in his car and then submitted them to the media. These are not the actions of someone trying to create peace in his community. These are the actions of someone deliberately trying to divide it. We are not fooled by your false flag or your manufactured response.
Radar is a German last name. Colangelo is Italian. Why are these whites rubbing their ethnoheritage in our faces with this last name shit.
BJ give your job to a black person.
Ton of triggered white men on this thread – perhaps go back to 4chan?
No, Drew, it’s just one wingnut a-hole troll, with no life and dozens of one-shot user names. SCENE needs to clean up its comment boards…and prohibiting anonymous posting would be the first place to start. If you don’t have enough guts to register and use one name, then GTFO.
So, troll, you seriously don’t think an ILLEGAL we-flip-houses sign will eventually lead to violence? When the fearmongering flippin’ douchebags patch up a house and rent or sell it to the unqualified, who then cause numerous problems of all sorts, why do you not think folks who already live there are going to get angry, and maybe violently so?
Stop trolling and do some homework. Look up the terms “blockbusting” and “panic peddling” Those ILLEGAL signs are one of the early symptoms…and they need to be made to disappear, as many times as necessary. The ILLEGAL “we-buy-houses” signs of today forecast the slums of tomorrow. They are not ads for handyman DIY guys trying to make a few bucks. They are the ILLEGAL advertising billboards of those who want to profit from fear and hatred, and, as such, they cannot be allowed to stand.