The footage is really scary. I sincerely hope everyone got out OK and no one has been hurt.
I hope, also, that some of you now understand that the lefty women (who know a think or two about campaigning, fascists and antifa) have not been criticising KJK because we're jealous, but because we feared exactly this would happen.
I wrote this yesterday, it's a paraphrase of what several of us have been saying for months:
if you don't make it very clear that the far right aren't welcome, if you go on their media, make them feel welcome, they will turn up. They will turn up especially as many of them like a bit of recreational violence, and to fight with the TRAs. And when that happens, that's all the media will focus on.
We're at that stage now.
The next stage is more Antifa come to fight the fash. More men who like recreational violence (on both sides) hear about it, and come along too. Before too long, the whole thing becomes a fight between far right and Antifa men, the press love reporting it it - and KJK's femalism implodes, but not before doing a load of damage to the women's rights movement.
KJK could take steps to stop this happening, like not cosying up to the far right all the fucking time. Her nazi "denouncement" isn't easy to take seriously when she's hanging out with a woman from the Oz version of the UKIP, immediately after.
We've moved on a phase since yesterday, we're now at "The next stage is more Antifa come to fight the fash". The huge swell of people there will have been mobilised in such huge numbers to fight fascism, as they perceive it.
And the media are interested - not in what the women are saying, but in catching some violence on camera, as that's worth clicks (and money). Did you see how many people with professional looking cameras were there today?
You lot can argue to the cows come home about whether KJK has been courting the far right or not, ask questions designed to deflect, such as "what is the far right anyway" and carry on taking the piss out of those who raise this as a concern. But out there in the real world, it looks a lot like KJK's courting the far right - because of her actual behaviour, besides any spin - and that the neo nazis turned up to support her as a result.
And, the consequence is that the temperature rises, the message is lost, violence increases and the media fucking love it, and amplify it. That's the next stage.
No, I am not blaming KJK for men's violence before any of you start. That doesn't mean that this wasn't predictable. There are much more savvy ways to go about things, that don't end up with huge angry mobs coming after you because they've seen what looks like proof you're in with the fascists.
Those of us who've been banging on about this for ages are saying this as we know KJK's courting of the far right will trigger those who want to fight fascism to turn out. And, also we've seen men's recreational violence take over in other movements and other times. For the 1,000th time, jealousy has fuck all to do with it.