# Smash White Supremacy Fun Run- "Provocateur" Reginald Denny??????

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**Created:** [July 19, 2013, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smash-white-supremacy-fun-run-provocateur-reginald-denny/663901 "2013-07-19T02:33:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ea5d25/32.png) [@Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Scrappy_Hero_Pup)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2013, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smash-white-supremacy-fun-run-provocateur-reginald-denny/663901/1 "2013-07-19T02:33:30Z")

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So there’s the “Smash White Supremacy Fun Run.” And they’re pissed off about the Zimmerman verdict.

And I’m not going to get into the verdict here; there are dozens of threads about that.

And these guys and gals want to run around Westwood. And I’m cool with that.

Let me say that again- if you want to all get together and go for a jog in hoodies for the purpose of airing your grievances, specifically as they relate to perceptions of race and dress in neighborhoods like Westwood, I support the shit out of that. It’s a legitimate protest method.

That said, one of the things they were protesting is

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> a sensationally racist media narrative that… exaggerates the instances of physical violence - eliciting fears of the 1992 rebellion, the myths surrounding provocateur Reginald Denny, and has ensured the introduction to Crenshaw of more pigs, who are the number one threat to people of color and the model George Zimmerman himself emulated when he gunned down Trayvon Martin[;]

The myths surrounding PROVOCATEUR REGINALD DENNY?

You have got to be fucking kidding me (let’s not even get started on “the 1992 rebellion”).

This is in the Pit because the bullshit over-the-top race-baiting and characterization of the prior demonstrations as “peaceful” are going to inflame emotions.

This is in the Pit because, with a mission statement like that, you’re looking to get some people (who are not you) whipped into a frenzy and subsequently hurt so that you can then decry the shit-storm that you created.

But what I really want to know is this:

1. How anyone in their right mind can expect to be taken seriously when decrying the “provocateur Reginald Denny;” and

2. If 1 is actually a true statement, I’d love to hear the evidence.  
[sub]Let’s set aside “Note: This event is consciously ableist, although all participation is welcomed,” which is something that no one not on a National Socialist Organizers Committee has ever said ever.[/sub]

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**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2013, 4:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/smash-white-supremacy-fun-run-provocateur-reginald-denny/663901/2 "2013-07-19T04:10:55Z")

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Well, that certainly takes the cake for blaming the victim! Somebody gets his head broken by bricks by a gang of racist shits…and he’s a provocateur.

How about those damn Jews, bringing down the Third Reich with their underhanded Fifth Column tactics? Or the American Indians, threatening the U.S. Army with total destruction time and again. Really magnificent.