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Summary

A group of masked men with Nazi flags protested outside a performance of “The Diary of Anne Frank” in Howell, Michigan, shouting antisemitic slurs.

Audience members were reportedly frightened and needed escorts to their cars. The Fowlerville Community Theatre, which staged the play, described the protesters' presence as a disturbing reminder of the fear faced by Holocaust victims.

The Anti-Defamation League condemned the display. The incident follows other recent displays of racism in the area.

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[-] enbee 196 points 1 month ago

shame on CNN for calling them demonstrators. Human scum is more like it.

[-] crank0271@lemmy.world 72 points 1 month ago

Terrorists or fascists seems more appropriate.

[-] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 29 points 1 month ago

Very fine people, according to the incoming president

[-] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 month ago

Aren't they owned by the right now too?

[-] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

CNN is diet fox. An agent of the evil propaganda network.

[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 138 points 1 month ago

They had a flag! Why call them anything other than Nazis protesting outside Anne Frank theater performance? Corpo-fascist apologists.

[-] ripcord@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago

Man,you're talking like it's 2016. Or even 2023.

Buckle up for the next 4+ years. Holy shit.

[-] AngryRobot@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

The only way the reds give up power this time is by force.

[-] b161 15 points 1 month ago

Only people against the genocide of Palestinians and against Zionism get to be called Nazis and anti-semites.

People waving actual Nazi flags are “free speech advocates” or “demonstrators”, and certainly not Nazis.

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[-] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 113 points 1 month ago

We should start beating these people who seem to think Nazis are cool. Make it painful to be a bigot.

[-] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 70 points 1 month ago

My thoughts exactly. Make Nazis Afraid Again.

[-] ApathyTree@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 month ago

Ooh, there’s a song about that acronym!

MNAA MNAA, do do do do do

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8N_tupPBtWQ

[-] pivot_root@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

How about MANA?

Make
All
Nazis
Afraid

[-] maplebar@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

I just wish we could beat them at the fucking ballot box first. Right now it looks like the nazis are a majority in this fucked up shithole country of ours.

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Because cops protect their own.

[-] ChillPenguin@lemmy.world 70 points 1 month ago

A group of masked men with Nazi flags

Just say Nazis CNN. It's not hard. Even the headline sucks.

[-] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 66 points 1 month ago

“Demonstrators” is some really soft-handed phrasing, CNN. There’s a better word for people who wave nazi flags: “Nazis”.

[-] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

Here, I fixed it:

A group of ~~people~~ Nazis carrying Nazi flags demonstrated outside a community theater performance of “The Diary of Anne Frank” in Livingston County, Michigan, in a display of antisemitism.
Several masked ~~men~~ Nazis showed up waving Nazi flags and reportedly shouted antisemitic and racist slurs outside the American Legion Post 141 in Howell on Saturday during the play, according to CNN affiliate WXYZ.
“People were shocked. They were appalled,” Army veteran Bobby Brite told WXYZ. “Everything you would expect.”
Brite said many of the 75 people who watched the play were afraid to leave the building and had to be escorted to their cars.
“Nobody in America should feel like that,” he said.
~~Demonstrators~~ Nazis were also seen in the nearby town of Fowlerville, according to eyewitnesses.
Alex Sutliff and his wife were driving home through downtown Fowlerville when they came across a group of masked ~~men~~ Nazis waving Nazi flags.
“They were saying awful antisemitic things that I don’t even feel comfortable repeating myself,” Sutliff told CNN on Tuesday.
Sutliff, who filmed the brief encounter, said the group of Nazis “all stuck their hands up” and chanted “Heil Hitler, Heil Trump.”
Sutliff’s interaction with the ~~demonstrators~~ Nazis took place at a stoplight, and when the light turned green, he drove away before things could escalate.
He and his wife called local police to report what they saw, and then circled back to let the ~~demonstrators~~ Nazis know that authorities were on their way.
“The second that they heard that they were on the way, they all packed up their stuff and ran away.”
CNN has reached out to the Livingston County Sheriff’s Office for further details.
The Fowlerville Community Theatre, which put on the production, said in a statement the play “centers on real people who lost their lives in the Holocaust” and added the cast and crew “endeavored to tell their story with as much realism as possible.”
“On Saturday evening, things became more real than we expected,” the group said. “The presence of ~~protesters~~ Nazis (this one I may be willing to let slide if it’s a direct quote) outside gave us a small glimpse of the fear and uncertainty felt by those in hiding.”
“As a theatre, we want to make people feel and think. We hope by presenting Anne’s story, we can help prevent the atrocities of the past from happening again.”
Citing the sheriff’s office, The Detroit News reported the ~~demonstrators~~ Nazis left after being told to vacate the legion post’s parking lot, then ensued in a brief exchange of words with patrons while across the street.
The Anti-Defamation League’s regional office in Michigan said on social media it was “disgusted by the far-right extremist~~s~~ Nazis (again, this may be a direct quote?) who praised Hitler and waved Nazi flags outside of an American Legion hosting the play.”
The county has faced similar displays of racism this year. In July, White supremacist~~s~~ Nazis marched through Howell, located roughly 40 miles northwest of Detroit.
Threats to Jews in the US tripled in the one-year period since the deadly October 7 attack on Israel by Hamas, preliminary data provided to CNN by the ADL showed. In the weeks following October 7, reports of hate crimes and bias incidents targeting Jews, Muslims and Arabs all surged.
“The Diary of Anne Frank” was published posthumously and has been translated into more than 70 languages in more than 60 nations, with several film and stage adaptations. Her diary is often a teen’s first introduction to the horrors of the Holocaust caused by Nazis during World War II.
She and seven others, all Jewish, hiding in a secret annex above a canal-side warehouse in Amsterdam for nearly two years were detained and deported in 1944. Anne later died in the Bergen Belsen concentration camp at age 15.
Growing fears of antisemitism remains a present issue – including in Amsterdam. In July, a statue of Anne in a local park was vandalized with the word “Gaza” scrawled in red paint. More recently, people were beaten and injured in violent clashes between fans of an Israeli soccer team and counter-protesters in the city over the weekend, which Dutch authorities condemned as antisemitic.

[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 month ago

CNN have been normalizing Nazis for years. Almost as if CNN is owned and operated by Nazis…

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[-] ramble81@lemm.ee 62 points 1 month ago

masked men

Fucking cowards

[-] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 28 points 1 month ago

As Nazis are. Bunch of scared, racist pedos (and before you come at me for the pedo comment, just take a moment and look up how many Nazis have pedo charges)

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I figured that's why they started all the Pizzagate/Qanon horse manure - it's sheer projection.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

And I thought masks were bad. Not just bad, but downright dangerous.

That's what we kept being told all through COVID.

[-] Jerb322@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Surprised none of them passed out from lack of oxygen./s

[-] disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world 42 points 1 month ago

Someone should send this to Netanyahu as an example of actual antisemitism.

[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 37 points 1 month ago

The far right extremists are feeling more and more emboldened.

Don’t hide from these assholes. That’s how they win.

[-] 7toed@midwest.social 28 points 1 month ago

What are they protesting CNN?

Journalist malpractice to not call 'em what they are.

[-] gcy@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago

it should be legal to shoot fascists

[-] Tujio@lemmy.world 29 points 1 month ago

They gave our grandpas medals for shooting Nazis.

[-] Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

If you do, and you're arrested, demand a jury trial. If I'm on it, you have nothing to worry about.

[-] Sculptor9157@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 month ago

There's a 50% chance any given juror will also be fascist, it seems.

[-] frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe 1 points 1 month ago

Or will say "sure they had nazi flags but it was just a complaint about the economy"

[-] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago

Never let the law stop you from doing what's right.

[-] Corno@lemm.ee 23 points 1 month ago

The fact that such hateful people still exist in the world is staggering. Anne Frank was only 15 years old when she died, so not only are they being incredibly racist, they're also mocking the death of an innocent child. We only get to live on this planet for a short time, so why can't we just love eachother?

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[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 23 points 1 month ago

"I take it back, people are not truly good at heart. They're miserable fucking assholes."

[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago

And then they were all gunned down by good guys with guns, right? Right?

[-] itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 month ago

This is our future. The voters enabled this behavior and it will only get worse.

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

A small price to pay to ~~lower the cost of groceries~~ have prices go even higher but still continue to blame Democrats.

[-] timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

Voters and non voters.

[-] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

Republicans were waiving Nazi flags, let be honest in our reporting.

[-] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

Typical shitty MAGATs waving their favorite flag.

[-] Jerb322@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

With masks on...

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

But they FELT POOR, you guys! The price of eggs! The price of bacon! And those liberal ELITES kept talking down to them. They had no choice!

[-] frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The price of an omelette went up 37c, you can't expect them to stay silent.

Jk they wouldn't eat french food, probably think the french are the bad guys.

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