Exercising Cancel Culture's happy fists in San Francisco
© 2020 Peter Free
19 October 2020
Cancel Culture is finding its gleeful fists
Consider the following incident.
It pretty well mimics everything that has been going on with the "white" West Coast component of Black Lives Matter:
A free speech demonstration staged by conservative activists quickly fell apart in downtown San Francisco on Saturday after several hundred counterprotesters surged the area, outnumbering and attacking those gathered, including knocking one in the mouth.
A photographer working for The Associated Press witnessed a Trump supporter being taken away in an ambulance and an injured San Francisco police officer on the ground by San Francisco’s United Nations Plaza.
The San Francisco Police Department said three officers suffered non life-threatening injuries when they were assaulted with pepper spray and caustic chemicals. One officer was taken to a local hospital for treatment . . . .
© 2020 Associated Press, Conservatives staging free speech rally attacked by critics, APnews.com (18 October 2020)
The Trump supporters involved . . .
. . . were (understandably) protesting Twitter's censorship of a New York Post story. See about that, here.
The Post had re-exposed some of Hunter Biden's alleged influence-peddling and loot-raking in Ukraine.
According to these counterprotesting San Francisco "liberals"
Evidently, the simple fact that Trumpian conservatives would stand up for their spirit-of-the-Constitution right to be heard turns them into fascists.
Thus (we can infer) it was mere justice that the "black" Trump-supporting organizer of the "conservative" demonstration lost two teeth to one of the "liberal" counter protestor's assaults.
The attacker apparently was — cartoonishly, given overwhelming levels of black-on-black violence in the United States — also black.
See this video at its 00:07 minute mark.
For good measure, counter demonstrators also attacked police
Cops who, as a matter of honorable duty, were trying to get in the way of the anti-fascists' wave of speech-canceling physical abuse.
Since we all know (I surmise) that police are bad people, these Against-the-Blue attacks must have been ethically okay:
“All cops are bulls—,” the crowd chanted as it moved down Market Street toward Twitter headquarters, where Team Save America was said to be planning another anti-censorship rally later.
© 2020 Mallory Moench and Michael Williams, Six injured, including three police officers, during clashes in S.F. between pro- and anti-Trump groups, San Francisco Chronicle (17 October 2020)
Typical San Francisco logic
Here is what two "white" female counter demonstrators said — in justification of their gang's Antifa-like actions:
"They have no business being here, they're trying to build a fascist movement in this country," said San Francisco resident Carol Seligman.
"It's tough, I believe in free speech but I'm also anti-fascism," said Elana Thurson-Milgrom from San Francisco.
© 2020 KGO-TV, Dan Noyes and Cornell Barnard, Tensions rise after free speech rally turns violent in San Francisco, abc7news.com (17 October 2020)
See those two opinions being voiced live in KGO-TV's video of the incident:
ABC News Bay Area, Tensions rise after free speech rally turns violent in San Francisco, YouTube (18 October 2020) (Seligman at 01:10 and Thurson-Milgrom at 02:20 minutes into the clip)
"I believe in free speech but I'm also anti-fascism"
According to Thurson-Milgrom, free speech is only for people whom one agrees with.
Her obtusely uninsightful statement is actually a good metaphor for San Francisco's own quasi-official mentality. Those of us condemned (or assigned) to live in the allegedly Golden State recognize that San Francisco's (continually vacuous liberal Democrat) emoting represents this whole miserably run State's likely future.
The Bay City, on the one hand — and soundly exercised societal sense, on the other — have nothing in common.
We can arguably throw Portland (Oregon) and Seattle into the same pile of "loser" metropoli.
OMG, am I using a Trump word?
What is happening to Lefty me?
Did San Francisco muttonheads and the Devil make me do it?
The moral? — San Francisco, airhead capital of the world?
I doubt that the United States will benefit from the force-based triumph of US West Coast liberalism.
Politics of this type are self-contradictory and nationally self-destructive. Not that Republican Oligarchists are any better.
Let's just go out and punch everyone we meet. Wear your COVID masks. We certainly don't want anyone to get sick.