If you don’t have a problem with milkshaking, how do you feel about this?

[Jillyhilly]

I was struck by the fact that some mumsnetters didn’t seem particularly bothered by assault when it’s “just” a milkshake - particularly when the target of that milkshake is someone whose politics they don’t agree with.

I just wondered if the latest milkshaking attacks recipe - adding quick drying concrete - might change minds?

A group of masked Antifa “protestors”, attacked Andy Ngo- a right-leaning journalist with Quilette - in Portland, that lovely hotbed of radical left wing politics.

Ngo was punched and kicked. Eggs and concrete-infused milkshake was chucked at him. (When wet, concrete acts as a chemical that burns skin.) But hey, it’s all perfectly understandable because Antifa didn’t like the fact that he’s a conservative. And, understandably, wanted to silence him. So they attacked him. A whole masked gang of them against a small, effete gay Vietnamese immigrant. He spent the night in hospital with a bleed on the brain.

That was day 1. On day 2, they beat up an elderly man with a crowbar. All in the name of anti-facism. Heroic!

Did anyone really think that milkshaking wasn’t always going to lead to something worse? And what the hell is going on in Portland? And why are some left-wing journalists celebrating Ngo’s attack? And why in the world are people are worried about their kids being radicalised by little conservative Ben Shapiro when they really ought to be looking in the opposite direction?

Is 'milkshaking' or egging really that cool and harmless?
www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-england-london-48124973
And that was a slice of cheese.

Probably isnt a nice person no, because he was attacking people with a baton, in which case you get everything you deserve. Unless you believe people shouldnt be allowed to defend themselves frm a baton attack?

Heres the people we're objecting to, the poor lambs who need to be protected, heres what they believe-

I have a problem with milk shaking. It’s assault. If it is true that there was cement in the milkshakes, even worse. Andy Ngo definitely sustained facial injuries and apparently also possibly a small brain bleed. Again, denied by Antifa defenders-who knows about that one. He was definitely beaten and pursued though. The video shows it. Ngo had the right to go about his lawful work without being attacked. End of subject it seems to me. He was targeted as well. I heard his name used as he was running away on the video. The people committing the violence were wearing black with faces covered. Obviously there ready to be violent. To me, beating a gay man of Asian ethnicity sounds a lot more fascist than taking pictures.

@user1471447863 - Good God, allergies hadn't occured to me. In that case, I rescind my comment about not being that worried about it. If it can seriously harm someone, as your link shows, then it becomes violence and that is wrong. As we don't know who has an allergy, it could always potentially harm and therefore is always wrong.

The culprits should be executed. That would stop it.

Throwing a normal milkshake at someone is so far removed from throwing a concrete containing milkshake at someone that it's just simply odd to compare the 2.