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by recursive 1978 days ago
FWIW this was all several years ago. I don't know if the mail server still exists with the same name.

And I still don't know what's wrong with a torchlight hike/march. (They call it a hike, you call it a march) It sounds like something I'd do.
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varjag 1978 days ago
They did Tiki torch march a couple weeks after Charlottesville, which am sure is just another unfortunate coincidence. Can happen to anyone!
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flukus 1978 days ago
They did it in Germany, where Charlottesville was likely a 30 second news clip that everyone forgot about.

Stop with the cultural imperialism, race relations in the US are rather unique.

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varjag 1978 days ago
I am in Europe, it was top news for many days.
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hobofan 1978 days ago
Even unrelated to Charlottesville torch walks generally have right wing connotations, as it was a traditional show of force by the Nazis. In Germany these days you mostly see them done as right wing rallies. As one data point, here[0] you can see NPD members calling for protest holding torches (during broad daylight).

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4QUC0aXN8M

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gonehome 1978 days ago
Maybe it's just wildly bad self-awareness mixed with being obnoxious, but maybe it's not: https://www.cnn.com/2017/08/12/us/white-nationalists-tiki-to...

The torches are used as a symbol - might be nothing, but paired with speaking out against cultural marxism it's more likely to be intentional than it otherwise would be.

I don't know, but I'm not giving them the benefit of the doubt since the mail server is fairly explicit if true.

When people tell you who they are, believe them.

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