WASHINGTON — Outside the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.,
hundreds of protesters gathered on the eve of Republican President-elect
Donald Trump’s inauguration. The protestors were there to rally support
against the DeploraBall, an inauguration celebration held by
figureheads in the alt-right political community. Tear gas was disbursed
by police trying to quell the protest, photos of Trump were burned and
fights broke out amid the crowd.
Among those in the crowd was a man from New Jersey who was incensed at how some of the protesters acted. Rare watched as an anonymous protester proudly wore a shirt that displayed a swastika. The anonymous protester’s shirt said “SMASH THE ALT RIGHT” and showed a fist busting up a swastika. Though his shirt was against those he believed to be promoting a fascist agenda, not everyone agreed. One bystander called him out for wearing a shirt with a swastika.
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“You’re a fucking idiot,” the protester yelled at the man and his wife.
“How could you wear something like that? You’re marginalizing Hitler, shame on you, you’re a coward!” Ram Lubranicki of Howell, New Jersey yelled at the man.
When Lubranicki’s wife said that the protester’s shirt was “propaganda like Goebbels,” the man shot back that she must know deceased Reich Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels well.
“I bet you know Goebbels really fucking well,” the man yelled.
The man tried to explain that his shirt was anti-Nazi. The people he
encountered believed that just by putting out the image, he was
“marginalizing hitler.”
That set Lubranicki off who revealed to the man and an assembled crowd of bystanders and reporters that he lost countless family members in the Holocaust
“He killed half my family! That’s how I we know him,” he said.
“47691, that was the number on my mother’s arm!” he told the crowd.
The protesters then scoffed and left.
In an interview with Rare following the exchange, Lubranicki explained that he felt that despite the alt-right’s embrace of elements of fascist regimes, it’s not OK to box all Trump supporters into the same category.
According to Lubranicki, he lost a brother, a pair of grandparents and several aunts and uncles during the Holocaust.
Because of this he believes that it is wrong for anyone, left or right, to describe Donald Trump or his supporters as fascists.
Among those in the crowd was a man from New Jersey who was incensed at how some of the protesters acted. Rare watched as an anonymous protester proudly wore a shirt that displayed a swastika. The anonymous protester’s shirt said “SMASH THE ALT RIGHT” and showed a fist busting up a swastika. Though his shirt was against those he believed to be promoting a fascist agenda, not everyone agreed. One bystander called him out for wearing a shirt with a swastika.
“You’re a fucking idiot,” the protester yelled at the man and his wife.
“How could you wear something like that? You’re marginalizing Hitler, shame on you, you’re a coward!” Ram Lubranicki of Howell, New Jersey yelled at the man.
When Lubranicki’s wife said that the protester’s shirt was “propaganda like Goebbels,” the man shot back that she must know deceased Reich Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels well.
“I bet you know Goebbels really fucking well,” the man yelled.
That set Lubranicki off who revealed to the man and an assembled crowd of bystanders and reporters that he lost countless family members in the Holocaust
“He killed half my family! That’s how I we know him,” he said.
“47691, that was the number on my mother’s arm!” he told the crowd.
The protesters then scoffed and left.
In an interview with Rare following the exchange, Lubranicki explained that he felt that despite the alt-right’s embrace of elements of fascist regimes, it’s not OK to box all Trump supporters into the same category.
According to Lubranicki, he lost a brother, a pair of grandparents and several aunts and uncles during the Holocaust.
Because of this he believes that it is wrong for anyone, left or right, to describe Donald Trump or his supporters as fascists.
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