Nazi protestors wave swastika & Ron DeSantis flags outside Disney World - LGBTQ Nation
By: Molly Sprayregen
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Horrified passersby captured a group of Nazi protestors gathered outside Disney World on Saturday holding flags bearing swastikas as well as racial and homophobic slurs. Their signs also showed support for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) for president.
"This is the 2023 Republican Party," wrote gun violence activist Shannon Watts, the founder of Moms Demand Action, alongside a photo of the demonstration.
"Absolutely disgusting," said state Rep. Anna V. Eskamani (D), whose district encompasses the Orlando area.
Eskamani posted video that was sent to her of the Nazis, in which they can be heard yelling, "Go back to Mexico."
Nazis outside of Walt Disney World right now — absolutely disgusting. pic.twitter.com/WeXtRi3OSL
— Rep. Anna V. Eskamani (@AnnaForFlorida) June 10, 2023
Journalists and groups like Miami Against Fascism have been working to publicly expose the identities of the protestors.
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It is no surprise that the white supremacist group was expressing support for DeSantis, who has used the demonization of people of color and queer folks as a cornerstone of his political career.
DeSantis has gone to war with Disney over its opposition to his Don't Say Gay law, launched numerous blindsides attacking "woke indoctrination" in schools and taken control of the state's education system with handpicked administrators and the power of the bully pulpit. His staff has regularly smeared LGBTQ+ people and allies on social media with vile slurs and insinuations of sexual abuse.
White supremacist groups have thrown their support behind DeSantis for a while. Last summer, DeSantis ignored repeated calls for him to denounce a group of Nazi demonstrators marching outside a Turning Point USA event. In addition to swastika flags, the group held posters expressing support for DeSantis.
DeSantis has also repeatedly spoken about his desire to abuse executive power to get what he wants, should he manage to win the presidency.
The Nazis likely chose Disney as their venue to wave their flags due to DeSantis's ongoing feud with the corporation. Disney is currently suing DeSantis for "a targeted campaign of government retaliation" after the company spoke out against the Don't Say Gay law.
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I left out the names of the people. That is at link.
nazi flags, confederate flags, trump flags, basically the same ideologies...
One of the men was fired from his job as a corrections officer for something about oral sex with a prisoner...
And then has the nerve to hold up signs denouncing gay people...
He could have been a CO in a women's prison. Do you know if it was a male prisoner? If so, they justify that ya know. It isn't gay sex if the "strait" guy isn't giving a blow job and if he isn't taking it in the butt.
I didn't want to dig any deeper into it...Haha
I'm not squeamish...I'll go digging
Looks like a county lock up in South Carolina. Doesn't say if he was on the male or the female side. But I bet it was a man who he forced
another example of law enforcement job perks in the south...
... like cross barbecues and shooting unarmed minorities.
Pitching or catching?
Have met prison guards professionally (medical/psych exams).
All it takes is a few seconds of a hard stare to understand who they are and why they do what they do.
Many prison guards I have examined could easily be on the other side of the bars in a New York second.
If you're not tough and dangerous you don't survive, prisoner or guard.
Doing favors can easily get one killed by one faction or another.
It's a lose/lose situation being a prison guard.
Does that affect your opinion at all?..
Some Florida Prison Guards Openly Involved with White Terrorist Organizations
Yelling go back to Mexico....
Do these people realize Disney is a worldwide destination?
Sometimes I think some people really fell short in the brain development process.
I wonder who organized this little get together?
Can you imagine flying in your family for a vacation, kids all excited about Disney and they have to see that at the entrance...
Way to ruin an expensive vacation.
a teachable moment for future democrats...
When I went to Disneyworld as a kid, my experience was semi ruined by the "It's a Small World" ride. Almost jumped out of the boat to swim for it! Couldn't get that inane repetitious song out of my head for months after the fact.
Nine people..
Riveting stuff.
So does the number of people make it more acceptable?
I guess it has to be hundreds before Sean will take notice of them
the rest of the group is probably still jailed awaiting trial in DC for the 1/6 insurrection, or couldn't get out of their official duties in the florida legislature...
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You keep trolling that KKK shit like anyone believes modern day Dems are the same as 1960 Southern Dems. The continued posting of it over and over is stupider than the people depicted... at least they seem to know the difference between the party platforms.
Sorry, Evil, I meant to delete all that nonsense up there
and messed up
No worries. Personally I'd be embarrassed to post anything as ignorant, let alone doing it over and over.
I'm leaving it there.
when people show you who they are, believe them
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So... Georgie.... They marched at Biden's inauguration parade carrying a 48 star flag?
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You guys really need to give it a rest. At this point it's really a blatantly trolling meme. No body is denying the Southern Democrats of the 1960s were racist bigots. Nobody that can read a past a 3rd grade level could confuse the conservative Southern Democrats of the 1960s for liberal democrats of today.
The ideology started to change under FDR, then Truman desegregated the Military, and the 60s and the Civil Rights movement made the change complete. Anyone that keeps trolling about the dems today being racists is running on empty.
You are exactly right Kavika. But it was not Democrats who were racist, it was conservatives. Back in those days a lot of Democrats, especially in the south, were conservative. This is readily seen in the vote totals for the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Conservative Democrats , and Republicans, voted against it, and liberal and moderate Democrats and Republicans voted for it. In those days there was such a thing as moderate Republicans and even a few liberal Republicans.
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Exactly, all those southern supporters of Woodrow Wilson, the New Deal and LBJ's Great Society were conservatives.
If theirs one things that defines a conservative, it's support of big government progressivism
Thanks for giving a perfect example of running on empty.
I was going to leave you alone until that one.
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Awaiting the inevitable, tired and stale reference to BLM, Antifa or the old standby of all things Chicago.
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Sometimes conservative Democrats voted with FDR , etc. BECAUSE they were promised slow walking on civil rights and delaying on equal treatment for blacks.
That’s a lie, post documented proof of this.
Lol. Where do you get this nonsense? Plenty of Jim Crow supporting southerners literally campaigned for election as "new deal" democrats. The idea that racists couldn't be progressives is ahistorical fiction.
Most of LBJ's Great Society passed with many southern supporters AFTER the Civil Rights Act was passed, so your claim doesn't make any sense whatsoever.
Do you recognize FDR’s Southern Strategy?
for one
In the mid-30s, the NAACP persuaded Democratic Senators Robert Wagner and Edward Costigan to sponsor an anti-lynching bill. The legislation couldn’t survive without the president’s support, so Eleanor arranged a meeting with White and FDR to try to convince the president to endorse it. The meeting didn’t go well.
“Somebody’s been priming you. Was it my wife?” FDR asked in annoyance after White presented his case. “If I come out for the anti-lynching bill now, [southern Democrats] will block every bill I ask Congress to pass to keep America from collapsing. I just can’t take the risk.”
Those bills he wanted to pass to keep America from collapsing were part of the New Deal .
At the time, “the southern Democrats in the Senate are holding the New Deal hostage and refusing to move on New Deal issues unless the rest of the Democratic party backs off the anti-lynching bills,”
says Eric Rauchway , a history professor at the University of California, Davis.
The demographics of Republican and Democratic voters back then were much different than they are today . From the mid-19th century through the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 , the Democratic party’s base was made up of white southerners in the south, and Catholics and immigrants in big industrial cities of the north and west.
“That’s a real awkward coalition to hold together if you’re talking about…issues of race,” Rauchway says. In the south, racist laws and practices prohibited black Americans from voting. When thousands of black people moved north during the Great Migration , they began exercising their voting rights in the big industrial cities that Democrats had counted on for votes. Some Democrats, like Senator Wagner, courted these new votes by supporting civil rights legislation. Others, like FDR, chose to hold onto the southern white vote instead.
So when the Democrats won both the presidency and a Congressional majority in 1932, “you have this kind of split party,” Rauchway says.
The NAACP hoped it could convince the new ruling party to finally support anti-lynching legislation, which civil rights activists had been trying to pass for decades. Since at least the end of Reconstruction in 1877, white southerners had used lynching to intimidate black people from voting and enforce white supremacist rule. In 1922, the House of Representatives had passed an anti-lynching bill, but it died in the Senate. The NAACP was hopeful that FDR would support such a bill, in part because Eleanor did.
Instead, FDR never gave his support, and the anti-lynching bills introduced during his term were “ filibustered to death,” Rauchway says. Senator Richard Russell, for whom one of the three Senate office buildings is still named , filibustered a 1935 anti-lynching bill for six days in order to kill it (three decades later, he also filibustered the 1964 civil rights bill). In 1937, Eleanor sat in the Senate Gallery for days as Senators filibustered another anti-lynching bill to death. Even in the early ‘40s, southern Democratic senators threatened not to support World War II bills unless their colleagues dropped anti-lynching legislation.
OMG, John.... You know what you're talking about.
That's unfair to the fact-free contingent.
Just to make it clear, conservatives have always been conservatives and liberals have always been liberals.
Doesn't matter that dems and repubs switched names back in the day.
Thankfully I've always been a non-affiliated centrist.
I enjoy being a gunsmith, but won't be one for criminals and will always have a firearm close to hand. Too damn many takers out there.
Want to save whales and am a member of Sea Shepherd. The planet is in the midst of a great extinction event and whales are important.
Tired of the deer on my property and allow friends to hunt them. The deer eat my fruit trees and gardens and have become a plague.
Acknowledge anthropogenic global warming and pollute as little as possible with my home and vehicles (ride a mountain bike mostly).
The 5 Rs; Reduce, Reuse, Repair, Rot, Recycle.
Am sick of the users and abusers on this planet who just don't care for anything but the almighty dollar.
Thankfully, at 70 I won't live to see the worst of what mankind has done to this planet.
The Nazis who support Desantis and the fascist fools who support Trump are just more of the signs and symptoms of a dying planet.
The planet is doing fine and will most likely outlast the human species
I thought that the planet was a hot mess.
Do you understand what you posted? You've simply made clear Southern Progressive Democrats could have killed the New Deal, but voted it through. Your own source is correct, they could have killed both the anti-lynching law and the New Deal. Guess what ? Actual conservatives opposed the New Deal, vehemently.
You know the conservative Republican Warren Harding had supported an anti-lynching bill a decade before FDR right? and the KKK endorsed the progressive Democrat in the 1924 Klanbake convention? There are so many inconvenient facts you need to ignore to cling to your simplistic revisionist history.
You seem to think pointing out that Southern Democrats were racist somehow helps your argument or that I'm disputing it. Progressivism and racism went hand in hand. Southern Progressives were both racist and progressives in good standing.
Which is why you also ignore this Most of LBJ's Great Society passed with many southern supporters AFTER the Civil Rights Act was passed, so your claim doesn't make any sense whatsoever.
No Bob, he just knows how to put together sentences that sound good out of context but don't hold up to the slightest scrutiny. It's unfair to the historically ignorant contingent.
How many does it take before it's wrong?
72 million is the current high bar...
Unfortunately, our state has more than its fair share of hate groups, one of the highest in the nation and this is simply another example of this. They are even members of the Republican party and on the executive committee in Miami-Dade and Sarasota are Proud Boys.
So this isn't the first time the Nazis protested in front of Disney and it probably won't be the last.
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So much alleged concern for what children are exposed to.
But this is ok.
Yeah, the phony concern for children and what they read is on full display in their ''protest''....
Nazis are much better for kids to have to deal with than that horrible poem that was read at the inauguration.
Did DeSantis say something about "very fine people"?
Events like this convince me that Europe's limits on free speech are the right way to go.
There is no value in what these demonstrators are doing, but there is blatant damage. Why do Americans side with evil?
It is far better to have these people out in the open where we can know of them, understand them and oppose them, rather than allowing them to plot unobtrusively.
meh, it should be legal to shoot at nazis...
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The original ones shot and killed a lot of my grandfather's family - his mother and 7 brothers and sisters, probably a bunch of other relatives, too. Invaded the village they lived in, marched them out into the forest one day and killed all of them. Fortunately, he had migrated to the U.S. many years earlier.
Condolences
I was going to upvote that comment, but I just can't. I'm so sorry your family suffered so many losses.
Thank you.
The sad thing is, we don't know a few of his older brothers' and sisters' first names. No one ever thought to ask him. A distant cousin put together a family tree a few years ago after my grandfather had already died, and my grandfather's siblings whose names are unknown are just listed as "Brother #2", "Sister #3", etc. I wish I knew.
I understand and thank you Sandy. My family was, of course, just part of the massive extermination of the Jews of Europe. They were living peacefully in their village, going about their everyday lives, when horror came.
Agree with Sandy there.
Senseless tragedy.
rwnj neo-nazis don't deserve a footing anywhere in this country...