Is this considered race baiting?

lilern

Ironically half the members (if not more) of MTOPP are white/Caucasian.  Has MTOPP finally jumped the shark?

lilern

BAITING - sorry for the misspelling. 

mcpoet

Yep, they've soared over the shark at this point.  I'm sympathetic to the cause, but all this accomplishes is alienating potential allies and proving that you're exactly who your critics have been saying you are.

pragmaticguy

Forgetting about the racism part, this is what socialism is all about. The ones who can make a few bucks by selling shouldn't because they should help others by letting them stay even if it means the owners take a loss.

bobmarvin

A.B. and her green-shirt thugs remind me of something very different from socialists.

whynot_31

In college, we had a group known as Spartacus, which believed in anarchy.

http://spartacus-educational.com/USAanarchist.htm

They engaged in similar methods.

They believed that they could crush the US military industrial complex, capitalism, racism and imperialism by disrupting the Student Government Meetings.

...or that the student goverment was complicit, or something. It was never really clear.

Mind you, the student government's main power was it's authority to issue permits for keg parties.

There was a maximum of 12 Keg Permits that could be in effect on campus on any given weekend, and (needless to say) St. Patrick's Day permits were gone months in advance.

southeast

"Is this considered race baiting?" Yes!

bobmarvin

While some anarchist tactics are similar to those of MTOPP there are better comparisons that are considerably further right. I won't spell them out to avoid invoking Godwin's law :-)

whynot_31

I think what reminds me most of the Spartacus students are not their tactics, but their target, and how they ascribed motivations:

- A community board strikes me as being about as being powerful as the average university's student government.

- CB9 is accused of being complicit with the supposed enemy (capitalism, DeBlasio, Eric Adams, yada yada), much like the student government was in favor of apartheid because it occasionally met with university officials. The university served coca cola, which had business in South Africa.....

blue_apple

not just race baiting. notice the "jewish" reference.

while we're at it, if the jews are "pushing us out", they are occupiers. maybe we should take the advice of hellen thomas and "let them go back to poland and germany".

nearly 25 years ago, this type of attitude allowed a violent pogrom against the jewish community in crown heights to go on continue unchecked, mis-reported and and un-prosecuted.

i'm not saying this group is anti semitic, but all you need is an al sharpton to come out the woodwork and the pitchforks and torches are not far off.

whynot_31

Uniformly and quickly, the reputable politicians and CB9 members (98% of those in attendance) have put substantial distance between themselves and MTOPP.   

So, I find that this group has been "checked", and accurately reported.

I think greater media attention has not been paid to the group because they don't want to give the leader the spotlight she desires.     

Ditto on the prosecution front:    The police seem to have decided that while this group is offensive and disruptive, they are not growing in numbers.    Arresting the present leaders for yelling in meetings would likely just serve to bring replacements from other parts of the city.