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11-01-2017 10:43 AM |
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Originally Posted by onwebcam
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The big sign saying "No Pedo Bashing" seems to disagree.
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Originally Posted by Acepimp
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If you have evidence that this is somehow fake, let's see it.
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/alt-ri...ke-nambla-sign
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Alt-Right Frames Protesters as Pedophiles With Fake NAMBLA Sign
When Columbia students denounced Mike Cernovich, a masked man jumped in front of them, raised a child molester banner, and the photo went viral. Even Trump Jr. liked it.
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https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/anti...philia-poster/
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In a post about his experience at the event, Gothamist reporter Jake Offenhartz, whose picture Cernovich used, wrote about the series of events before and after the banner picture was taken, reiterating that the sign was planted by those on the right.
“Someone said ‘hold this real quick’ and then they proceeded to snap pics,” Mistee Denson, a Columbia social work student and one of the organizers of the protest, told Gothamist. “Someone quickly realized what it said and ran them off. Unfortunately, they got what they wanted.”
Offenhartz snapped the picture and tweeted it, mentioning it was a plant, but media on the right ran it without that context, sparking the controversy.
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https://www.buzzfeed.com/janelytvyne...Y5O#.nm8k4a9Yw
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Jake Offenhartz, who was covering the protest, tweeted a photo of protesters holding a "planted" sign that said, "no pedo bashing."
Jake Offenhartz @jangelooff
Alt right strikes first at Columbia Cernovich event, plants NAMBLA-branded sign in front of protest march
6:46 PM - Oct 30, 2017
After Offenhartz posted the photo, it was tweeted by Cernovich, but without the "it was planted" caveat, at which point the story was completely changed.
An hour before Cernovich was supposed to speak, protesters were walking to campus. About halfway through, one person came up to the front, Offenhartz told BuzzFeed News. The progression stopped for a minute, and that's when the sign was unveiled.
"You could tell that there were at least one or two people there who, as soon as the sign was held up, skirted off and got out of the way," he said.
He said a few reporters took photos of the sign, but the protesters quickly realized what was going on and stopped holding the sign.
"A lot of these protesters are aware of the fact that this is an alt-right tactic, so it didn't take them long at all to figure out what's going on," he said.
After the 2016 presidential election, Trump supporters held up a "Rape Melania" sign at an anti-Trump protest in Washington, DC. It drew condemnation from both sides of the political spectrum, but BuzzFeed News reported that it was part of a coordinated misinformation campaign.
Videos posted to Twitter support Offenhartz's account. In one, a man is seen holding a rolled-up poster.
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A Periscope also shows that the sign wasn't originally there. At about 9:45 minutes in, it appears at the head of the march. It's there for about a minute before protesters take it down and start asking who was holding it.
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