If Brighton can protest peacefully so can the

I'm loving seeing all the pictures of the against rascim outnumbering the fugs. These look like naughty school boys waiting outside the head's office for a detention. Wonder if they were arrested.

counter protesters played instruments, sang, chanted ‘We are many you are few, we are Brighton who are you!’

They were also shouting 'Nazi scum off our streets!'. Which is exactly what the same group of counter protestors were shouting in the faces of women attending the Let Women Speak event in Brighton earlier this year, following and harassing them in the street to the point the women had to shelter in shops while waiting for police to escort them to safety. There was nothing peaceful about that.

I think everyone already knows rioters aren't reflective of whatever cause they are claiming to support.

But Brighton is one of the richest, most affluent cities and most expensive places to live in the UK - it has a very different demographics and community issues to say, Rotherham.

If you live in Brighton and your experience of UK cultural diversity is wandering down 'The lanes' and buying some fantastic gelato or pho; you're having a very different experience to many others in the UK.

Similar happened in Lancaster. Smaller scale, but the counter protest was much bigger than the ‘protest’. Racism won’t win.

They’re not protesting, they’re using this as an excuse to get all their toxic masculinity out. They aren’t campaigning for anything, they just whip themselves up into a lager fuelled rage because they think they are being shorted by the govt.

Nothing more dangerous than a white man with a chip on his shoulder.

I cried when I saw some of the footage last night. It gave me hope. I live near Brighton and when I heard there were protesters going there, I was very confident that a musical and joyful party was going to be the resistance Brightonians went for, and I was so pleased when that was the case.

I was less pleased to see a video of a man (in another part of the country) shouting ‘NAZI SCUM OFF OUR STREETS’ in someone’s face. Don’t get me wrong, I share and understand his anger, but meeting aggression with aggression is rarely a good strategy. The loudest/strongest person will win 🤷🏼‍♀️

Much better to ‘drive out darkness with light’.

I haven't seen it reported anywhere that the rioters are protesters. I can't currently access Twitter so maybe it's because of that. We've had many peaceful protests, so I'm sure everyone is aware that it can be done without throwing bricks and trying to burn people alive.