Summary

Masked neo-Nazis marched through Columbus, Ohio’s Short North neighborhood on Saturday, displaying swastika flags and making racist and antisemitic statements.

Police are investigating, and no arrests have been reported.

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine and Columbus officials condemned the display, emphasizing that hate and bigotry have no place in the state.

The incident follows a similar demonstration in Michigan last week, where masked protesters displayed Nazi flags outside a performance of The Diary of Anne Frank.

    • DogPeePoo@lemm.ee
      742·
      11 个月前

      Oh, don’t worry. That was just the new Secretary of Defense and a few of his buddies out blowing off some steam and having a good time.

    • njm1314
      28·
      11 个月前

      Considering how passive the title is here I think maybe they’re normalized now.

    • skyspydude1
      19·
      11 个月前

      The fact this is literally the 2nd story this week of Nazi shitheads openly waving their flags around is a good indicator it’s not going to take nearly that long.

        • BytemeisterEnglish
          4·
          11 个月前

          They were molested. The got in a few fights, pepper sprayed some people and then scuttled off to their U-Haul where the cops arrested them.

        • Flying Squid
          30·
          11 个月前

          I am an American (and Jewish) and I have no fucking clue what they’re talking about. It has gotten worse and worse and worse.

          • JovialMicrobial@lemm.ee
            2·
            11 个月前

            I hope you are able to stay safe where you are. A lot of New England states prepared for an influx of people needing medical care when roe vs wade was overturned. Some blatantly said they will not cooperate with states like Texas and will not release people’s medical records.

            I’m hoping if things escalate they’ll follow that trend and help people get out. There’s been some states like Vermont and Connecticut that have had a decrease in population over the past 10 years so there’s room for more people should it come to that.

            • Flying Squid
              2·
              11 个月前

              I have dual citizenship with the UK, which is where we plan to escape to, but New England is Plan B if I can’t find a job.

              • JovialMicrobial@lemm.ee
                3·
                11 个月前

                That’s good to hear! The UK is probably a lot safer than staying stateside. But if you find job prospects better in New England we welcome you!

                The roads are kinda crappy, and we still have some trump supporters, but it’s definitely muted compared to other parts of the country.

                • Flying Squid
                  2·
                  11 个月前

                  We have good friends in Baltimore (a queer married couple) so it’s a better plan B than nothing.

      • null@slrpnk.net
        3·
        11 个月前

        “They” being the majority of Americans who looked at this as said “yeah, sure”.

  • TimLovesTech@badatbeing.socialEnglish
    1631·
    11 个月前

    I wonder what the amount of Trump gear vs Nazi flags was. It’s also very ironic how when Nazi’s march in the streets without a permit the cops just block off the street with their cars and perform crowd control to “help protect the city” (the Nazis). And when people of color march without a permit because cops killed another person over something stupid they get met with riot gear, tear gas, and rubber bullets.

    It’s going to get so much worse before it gets better …

    • Klear@sh.itjust.works
      25·
      11 个月前

      To be fair they were severely understaffed for exactly the duration of the march for some mysterious reason.

    • Ensign_CrabEnglish
      7·
      11 个月前

      Remember that cops have no duty to protect. They protect who they like. They protect what they are.

      • TimLovesTech@badatbeing.socialEnglish
        1·
        11 个月前

        Outside of us causing a nuclear war, it will eventually get better. Every empire eventually falls, it’s just a question of, do we take Mother Earth with us?

      • ShepherdPie@midwest.social
        52·
        11 个月前

        Ah, maybe the police were stopping them to pick up their coworkers from out of the van so that they could start their shift.

    • MakeitstopEnglish
      287·
      11 个月前

      So the story gets a happy ending… and I’m guessing so will his cellmate.

      • Sterile_TechniqueEnglish
        541·
        11 个月前

        …probably just relocating them to the department so they can change back into their cop uniforms.

      • Flying Squid
        111·
        11 个月前

        I won’t believe this story has a happy ending until they’re in prison. Because I have a feeling they’re about to get a huge amount of help from the incoming administration.

        • 418_im_a_teapot
          3·
          11 个月前

          That will depend on whether they face state or federal charges. I’m curious if they will be charged at all if the only thing they did was “protest”.

          • Flying Squid
            5·
            11 个月前

            It will depend a lot more on whether or not the fascist dictatorship coming into office in January gives a shit about state charges being out of their legal jurisdiction.

            I’m betting on not.

            • Kalothar@lemmy.ca
              3·
              11 个月前

              Yeah, people are basically sticking their heads in the dirt with what’s about to happen in the US.

              Source: I live in Ohio and the apathy is palpable. I’m in a Blue bubble, but I even when I go to some small town you can tell everyone is just too burnout from the freight train of nonstop crazy politics stuff.

              • Flying Squid
                4·
                11 个月前

                People really want to believe Trump won’t be a fascist dictator despite coming right out and saying he will be. I know he lies all the time, but that’s a stupid reason not to believe him on this one.

    • Passerby6497English
      13·
      11 个月前

      Wasn’t that a previous Nazi rally? Or did it happen again?

    • Zink@programming.dev
      32·
      11 个月前

      It legitimately looks like the cop on the left is giving that guy tips for next time.

  • OrbituaryEnglish
    73·
    11 个月前

    “We will not tolerate hate in Ohio,” Ohio Republican Gov. Mike DeWine said in a statement on the social media platform X on Saturday evening.

    Talking from both sides of your ballot box, are we, Mike? Fucking moron. You support the hate candidate and you get a hate populace.

    • captainlezbian
      18·
      11 个月前

      Don’t worry, he’ll get pushback on that statement and then declare Ohio the fifth reich. He always takes the right stance first then manages to flip flop to worse than he was asked to

    • Mirshe
      8·
      11 个月前

      Considering this was happening before the election was declared as well, I’m willing to take the stance that Ohio is just a magnet for trash Nazis.

  • CharlesDarwinEnglish
    701·
    11 个月前

    Let me guess: there were good people on both sides in that masked group.

  • Fedizen
    68·
    11 个月前

    hate and bigotry is literally the only thing republicans agree on

    • spyd3r@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3130·
      11 个月前

      I’ve seen more hate, violence, and bigotry from the left over the last year…

      • TheLowestStone
        62·
        11 个月前

        People calling you a nazi when you’re acting like a nazi doesn’t count.

      • allidoislietomyself
        621·
        11 个月前

        Oh pretty please indulge us with your tall tales of all the violence you’ve seen from the left since Nov of 2023.

      • StupidBrotherInLaw
        261·
        11 个月前

        The hate and bigotry: people being upset at being intentionally misgendered.

      • Freefall
        8·
        11 个月前

        Hallucinogenics are a hell of a drug…or did you just notsee what the entire GOP has become?

      • DarkFutureEnglish
        3·
        11 个月前

        Imagine having a brain so wasted and misused as to actually believe this.

        It’s disrespectful to the forces of nature to treat your brain like this after so many millions of years of evolution.

        Get yourself some help.

    • captainlezbian
      16·
      11 个月前

      Nazis have been marching in Columbus for two years. This was just the first time they attacked people

      • azimir@lemmy.ml
        12·
        11 个月前

        The next time they’ll get the right police on shift first so they won’t be arrested for attacking people. Then no one speaks up the third time because no one is there to protect us and we’ve arrived at totally fucked.

  • KokeshEnglish
    561·
    11 个月前

    They’re just preparing for the inauguration.

    • Fredselfish
      111·
      11 个月前

      Police are investigating…sure I bet a few officers were in the march. Yes because Trump going allow nazi the only right to free speech. When fhe protest begin Trump will send in the troops to put them down.

  • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.caEnglish
    531·
    11 个月前

    I will never again wonder how a group like the KKK was able to form, thrive, and persist for so long, inside the USA.

    So glad I don’t live there. I’m worried about you all.

    Good luck.

      • Sculptor9157@sh.itjust.works
        33·
        11 个月前

        Because the civil war losers were never held to account, allowing this shit to continue festering underneath the veneer of American society.

          • nomous
            13·
            11 个月前

            Traitors should’ve been hanged. Their lands should’ve been confiscated and given to newly freed peoples, 40 acres and a mule and all that. Reconstruction failed in large part because the traitorous, racist losers were allowed to go home and start implementing Jim Crow laws instead of being held accountable.

            That they and their descendants were allowed to live out their days peacefully pretending their cause was somehow noble and honorable and not just chattel slavery is a crime that persists to this day in the systemic racism throughout our government.

        • DarkFutureEnglish
          3·
          11 个月前

          Yup.

          We didn’t hold the Confederates to account. We aren’t holding Donald Trump and his Republican enablers who spread lies about our democracy and took part in the fake electors plot to account. We’re too pussy to do what needs to be done when it needs to be done.

          Which is why our democracy won’t last.

          It’s inevitable.

    • Guy DudemanEnglish
      16·
      11 个月前

      I’m worried about us too. What the ever-loving fuck, man.

    • DarkFutureEnglish
      3·
      11 个月前

      We’ve always been a racist nation. The Civil War just shut them up in public for a while.

  • Nougat@fedia.io
    522·
    11 个月前

    Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine and Columbus officials condemned the display, emphasizing that hate and bigotry have no place in the state.

    Oh, but they do, as is evidenced by hateful bigots marching through the streets of your state capital.

    • grysbok@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      10·
      11 个月前

      It’s like that time my old high school had a school shooting and some elected official was all like “no one could have predicted this” and I was like “my brother in Christ, I went to that high school. If no one predicted a mass shooter event then why the fuck weren’t we allowed long coats or backpacks? Why the metal detectors? Was it all for shits and giggles?”

      Anyways, elected officials lie and it’s very upsetting to people that expect literal truth. Maybe it’s comforting to some?

  • GHiLA@sh.itjust.worksBanned
    555·
    11 个月前

    people who hate Jews voted for a guy who took all restrictions off of Israel

    inhale

    HAHAHAHAHAHA

    • drake@lemmy.sdf.org
      316·
      11 个月前

      Israel isn’t representative of Jewish people. It uses jewish people as a shield from criticism. Israel is a pro-US colonialist project before it’s jewish. This is like saying that people hate leftists but they voted for the national socialist german worker’s party

        • drake@lemmy.sdf.org
          11·
          11 个月前

          yes, they hate arabs most of all, so they probably consider israel’s genocide to be based. they probably love the concept that they’re funding a war that will kill lots of jews and lots of arabs

        • GHiLA@sh.itjust.worksBanned
          2·
          11 个月前

          They hate any color that isn’t white scaled to a slightly off-peach beige.

          What you actually are has nothing to do with their perception. There’s stories of Mexicans and Indians after 9/11 getting killed because some idiot thought they looked like Arabs.

      • Freefall
        2·
        11 个月前

        It isn’t colonialist. It is a place we can force-project our military from in a valuable and very anti-west part of the world. If our military didn’t need it, we wouldn’t even be near the place.

    • CharlesDarwinEnglish
      13·
      11 个月前

      These ding-a-lings have been supporting Israel (cynically) for a long time. First of all, they hate Muslims even more as a general rule, and for their silly fantasy that involves Yeshua flying back on a cloud, they think the Jews need to occupy Israel. This is why we have xtian zionists.

    • cultsuperstar
      7·
      11 个月前

      It always makes me laugh. These people are pro Israel for its government, which is right wing, but they hate Jewish people lol. That’s why you have the MGTs of the world talking about Jewish space lasers and Jews run Hollywood and Jews run the media.

      Trump loves the poorly educated.

      • seaplant@slrpnk.netEnglish
        2·
        11 个月前

        Most Jews are not israeli and israel is not representative of Judaism, but israel does claim Judaism as a core part of its “national” identity, so there’s nothing antisemitic about pointing out the irony of Nazis supporting israel. The irony may be pretty superficial tho, some of the other replies here point out several reasons why Nazism and Zionism/israel are actually aligned.

  • inclementimmigrant
    49·
    11 个月前

    I mean why wouldn’t they? Americans told them to be Nazi and proud this election after all.

    • BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee
      18·
      11 个月前

      I’m more shocked that they wear masks. They hate masks and they have no reason to hide their faces.

    • Zorg@lemmings.world
      91·
      11 个月前

      Exactly!

      Devine and other R politicians have no shame pandering for their votes, dog-whistles and all.

      • inclementimmigrant
        8·
        11 个月前

        I mean hell, not even dog whistles this time. Trump and his allies were loudly shouting Nazi slogans publicly and there was no pushback.

  • Mossheart@lemmy.ca
    48·
    11 个月前

    Masked group Nazis marches through Ohio neighborhood with swastika flags

    FTFY ABC News.

  • zibEnglish
    462·
    11 个月前

    I miss the days when it was acceptable to beat the shit out of Nazis. Can we bring that back?

    • Ensign_CrabEnglish
      6·
      11 个月前

      If you see someone punch a nazi, no you didn’t. That nazi fell.

    • John RichardBanned from community
      489·
      11 个月前

      Under what laws was it acceptable to beat people until shit comes out of them? It sounds like you just want an excuse to become violent whenever you feel justified.

      • LillyPip@lemmy.ca
        441·
        11 个月前

        I’m a pacifist, but punching Nazis has been self defence for 80+ years.

        • John RichardBanned from community
          117·
          11 个月前

          No it hasn’t. It is propaganda from Zionists to get you to think and behave radically anytime someone gets called a Nazi. It is a way to get you to think irrationally and to become a violent thug whenever you feel it is convenient to attack someone.

          • LillyPip@lemmy.ca
            101·
            11 个月前

            No, I’m old enough to know the difference.

            If you’re suggesting people literally carrying Nazi flags aren’t Nazis, you’re delusional.

      • DarthFrodo
        35·
        11 个月前

        Appeasement is a terrible idea when we’re talking about Nazis, it has never worked and will never work. I don’t get why people are so ignorant about history. I guess you’re not part of a minority that would get brutalized or murdered under their rule? Otherwise you probably wouldn’t attempt to play nice with literal Nazis.

        It’s really irritating to watch this shit unfold as a German. You guys are basically begging fascists to take over at this point.

        • John RichardBanned from community
          114·
          11 个月前

          Who is begging fascist to take over? It sounds like you’re begging anarchy to take over. I seriously question people’s intent like this that act like there should be no laws in the United States and that their radical feelings are way more important. I don’t see any of these cosplay Nazis murdering Jewish people anywhere on the scale of Zionists. Do you? Tell me, why are you such a strong advocate of punching cosplay Nazis but not an advocate of punching those committing the murder and genocide today?

          • Knoxvomica@lemmy.ca
            4·
            11 个月前

            Can… can we maybe just punch / kill both? The Isrealis are acting a LOT like Nazis these days. I’m cool with both.

      • GHiLA@sh.itjust.worksBanned
        311·
        11 个月前

        Easy.

        Nazis aren’t people. They cashed out their people card the second they picked up that flag.

        • John RichardBanned from community
          114·
          11 个月前

          Carrying a flag does not mean that someone is not people. It can mean that they are people that do bad things. You have Zionists committing genocide under your nose that seem to carry a particular flag. Do you think Zionists, like Joe Biden (a proud Zionist) aren’t people? Are you willing to punch the President or worse because of your extremist beliefs?

          • Ensign_CrabEnglish
            5·
            11 个月前

            Netanyahu’s atrocities don’t justify your support for nazi shit.

            It’s a shame that lemmy’s centrists abandoned the high ground on this, but I didn’t. Nazis relinquished their humanity to become pinatas.

      • vladmech
        231·
        11 个月前

        Always punch Nazis. It’s pretty simple.

        • Fuzzy_Red_Panda@lemm.eeEnglish
          41·
          11 个月前

          Someone should make an educational video on jury nullification and find a way to make it go viral on tiktok.

          • John RichardBanned from community
            19·
            11 个月前

            I see the propaganda has worked well. You’re more concerned about cosplay Nazis than the real Nazis committing genocide under your nose. You going to go punch a Zionist now?

      • Flying Squid
        162·
        11 个月前

        You’re going to be really disappointed if anyone ever tells you it’s raining cats and dogs.

      • Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works
        8·
        11 个月前

        The laws of engagement in WW2? I remember they were apparently building concentration camps and rounding up and murdering the Jews, the gays, the gypsies, the anarchists, the communists, the Slavs, the mentally disabled, allied prisoners of war etc etc. I think right about then the law was ok with fucking-up Nazis… but I’m not an historian so best to double check this comment.