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Today in Labor History August 16, 1933: The anti-Semitic Christie Pits riot took place in Toronto, Canada. At the time, Toronto’s Jewish community was predominantly poor and working-class. During the summer, they would go to the predominantly Anglo Beaches to swim. Some of the locals formed a "Swastika Club" and openly displayed the Nazi symbol to intimidate the Jews. The riot broke out after a baseball game when people displayed a blanket with a large swastika painted on it. A number of Jewish and Italian youth rushed the Swastika sign to destroy it, resulting in a melee with fists and clubs. A mob of more than 10,000 joined in, amidst cries of Heil Hitler. Miraculously, no one died. However, scores were injured. Many required medical and hospital attention.

The incident was depicted in two graphic novels: “Christie Pits” (2019) written by Jamie Michaels and illustrated by Doug Fedrau, and …

Someone educate the admins at mastodon.social that holocaust and Holocaust are different things. Note the capitalisation.

What israel is perpetrating in Palestine is *a* holocaust, not *the* Holocaust. And yes, it is genocide. And yes, they’re also guilty of close to eight decades of apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and settler colonialism. All these things can be (and are) true at the same time.

Basically, if you’re defending israel in any way, shape, or form right now, you’re the worst of the worst. Almost a century ago, you’re the kind of person who would have been cheering on Hitler. And yes, that’s also a valid comparison.

(Genocide-loving Germans on mastodon.social don’t @ me. My mentions are a genocide-apologist-free zone.)

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Sounds like a man was being an a-hole (what else is new)!

One arrested at peaceful “” protest in

by Cassandra Stephenson
Sat, June 14, 2025 at 1:53 PM EDT

"Metro Nashville Police officers arrested a masked counter protester carrying what appeared to be a handgun and a '' flag at the 'No Kings' protest at Bicentennial Park during Saturday’s 'No Kings' protest in Nashville.

"No shots were fired.

"Kase Cosgrove, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran and safety volunteer attending the protest, said he approached the man after other protesters told him the man was armed and spitting and shoving people while walking through the crowd.

"Cosgrove said he walked toward the man and saw him tapping on what appeared to be a handgun and pulling it out of its holster to show people …

The American concentration camps in El Salvador are still a thing.
Gangs of violent thugs working for the fascist regime are still kidnapping people from the streets in broad daylight.

And the world has accepted this as the new normal and mostly moved on.

For all the people who wondered how the Germans allowed the holocaust to happen, and what they would have done if they had been there, here's your answer.