Where are you getting that he was assaulted from?
That being said I think those people have the right to say whatever they want but that a trans march where he has supported trans tons is the wrong place to do that.

for example, an angry person shouting in your face or blocking your freedom of movement, a group of people swarming and surrounding you like you are being culled from the herd, people poking you it does not have to include a physical attack, which is considered battery.

Did not see shouting in his face, blocking, or swarming and surrounded and poking him.

"Critics said that Mr. Wiener took those positions only in response to political pressure."

This betrays just how shallow these politics can be and how reliant on trends some of these activists are. "Well, I was wearing those shoes first, and you only wore them because you saw me wearing them, so you're still lame!"

A politician has a view you dislike. You pressure them. They change their position. That's how the system is supposed to work! Congratulations, you succeeded. I was critical about Obama's stance on gay marriage, and then he came around. And what'd I do? Praised him and shut the fuck up. I don't care how he came to it - he did. Period.

But not these people. They're still unhappy lunatics.

This isn't about morality or cause. It's about some of these people being addicted to hatred and outrage and feeling morally justified to hate others freely from their terminally online perch. And if they have to do it on the backs of Palestinians, that's fine. If it wasn't the Palestinians, they'd find some other cause.

I also thought "Zionist handlers" was a nice touch. Just say Jewish. This coyness with words is exhausting. Everyone sees it.

I genuinely worry for his safety. I think one of these lunatics might pop off one day. Seeing him walk around without security like that in a crowded space. It made me nervous. They've sighted a vulnerable Jew in the wild, and they're going to keep coming for him. The more they justify this stuff, the more emboldened a perhaps more unstable person (if such a thing is possible) in taking an opportunity. If he ends up getting hurt, god forbid, it will be one of the least surprising headlines I read this year.

San Francisco has a strong Jewish community so Wiener won't be standing alone.

I agree it’s ineffective and feckless, and am not really in agreement with policy over Israel and AIPAC’s influence either but it’s got to the point where to these freaks there’s a “Jew in every corner” pulling the strings over every election.

And I’m not too thrilled about at least one of the primary winners in NYC. Apparently we’re going to step up to next level stupid from “defund the police”, and take it to “abolish prisons” and interracial dating is about oppression or some shit (yes read up on the tweets that were only like 3 years old).

Now I understand that this doesn’t define the party, but when it comes to politics I’m a believer in the adage, “if you’re explaining, you’re probably losing”.

I'm certainly more than fine with people scrutinizing who is funding politicians, but the APAIC thing is weird. Not that they're being criticized - by all means, go for it. But that it's being focused on to the exclusion of all else. That it is the one and only litmus test. Tech, AI, and crypto have been buying politicians at a discount, and that's going to have a far more profound effect on what this country - and even the world - is going to look like over the next twenty to thirty years. It's crazy, particularly if you are for the working classes as claimed. But every time I turn around, there's APAIC and raised eyebrows about "Zionists" lurking in the background with their "Zionist" money. And . . . it's very late 19th Century is all I'm saying. I studied history and read all this stuff - not just the cherry picked events and versions of events people yoink to support their ideology. It just all sounds familiar. From Edward I to 2026. The rhetoric rings in rhyme.

I know exactly which candidate you're talking about. One of things that kind of surprised me is that Platner got all that attention, and I was watching this other person like, "Do y'all not see them?" Because they are so. much. worse.

But for the sake of comity in the upcoming election, I left that one entirely alone. It's New York, so whatever. But Republicans will have a field day with that. Fortunately, I think Trump has tanked the country so hard that it's not really going to help them in November.

being "Called Out by Imani Rupert-Gordon, a queer Black woman who’s president of the National Center for LGBTQ Rights, and Gay San Francisco Board of Supervisors President Rafael Mandelman. ☮️💙🕊️

and that half of them were cosplaying as Hamas it seems likely this was a premeditated assault on the Senator.

How many people either watched/filmed without intervening or simply walked past as if this was a normal occurrence?

Echo of history

I've been to S.F. Pride functions many times over the years. I stopped going as often once I moved out to the burbs, got older, and just don't like being in public crowds anymore. (Apparently a win, because the water situation this year was real, real bad. Reports are the events were kind of a shitshow).

But for people to stand there, at an anti-hate event intended to unite people, and just let it go on the way it did. Not one soul among them intervened. They just watched one of our own, a staunch supporter of trans rights who has walked the walk for decades, get harassed like that.

I know many people just stay quiet around radical activists, because they know if they speak up, they'll be the next target of some of these clearly mentally imbalanced people.

But still - Where is the courage in my community?

From what I'm hearing and reading, I'm not alone in wondering why the community has been sitting through this constant harassment of him. These activists are beginning to over-play their position, and the resentment that they're starting to take over our events is real. A lot of people have responded by drifting out of more community centered things like this on account. Just avoid everything, because it's easier.

But eventually, something's going to give with all this. This guy who took the video wasn't even LGBT. He's a cishet activist hijacking our event and attacking one of our own.

And people stood there and watched. Unreal.

I don't doubt you, but if he is, it LITERALLY demonstrates the problem with the "movement" because here we have, yet again, another "issue" being promoted at an event that has NOTHING to do with it, and by someone who is not a part of any of the affected groups! It is almost parasitic in a way but shows privileged individuals using their privilege to pit minorities against other minorities. I am sick of it.

The fact that even in this thread, there are claims he wasn't assaulted. Pretty much the case when a Jew is a victim. In another post you said the way deflections to anti-Semitism should be studied...I agree. They think we don't see them; we do. I am sure you have also noticed the use of lowercase with certain words: Jews, Jewish, Judaism, and Israel. This is a linguistic technique, made more popular in social media to "downplay or dismiss" those things as irrelevant. It is similar to the shortening of certain identities to show contempt: Zionist becomes Zio (Neo-Nazis and David Duke made this popular) and it now leaking into the left. As far as I am concerned, the writing is one the wall.

Some local subreddits have also been discussing this since it happened, and people have been outlining who Dimitry Yakoushkin is. The verdict is he's the usual kind of radical activist you do not want anywhere near your cause because they're so insanely off-putting. I'd never heard of this person before.

He's a Chan supporter. He actually retweeted, "Connie Chan didn't get kicked out of the trans march!" You almost have to admire the crazy audacity of it. "My candidate didn't get kicked out the trans march! . . . (because I was busy grabbing some friends and harassing her opponent out of it)"

I have been heartened by the overwhelming response to all this so far, which generally runs, "San Francisco is tired of these people." That's right. You take that shit to Oakland as God intended.

Organizers of San Francisco's Trans March defended the protesters whose heckling drove state Sen. Scott Wiener from the annual event last week.

Wiener, a Congressional candidate and a longtime advocate for transgender rights, was filmed walking through Dolores Park on Friday by several protesters who loudly criticized his record on the armed conflict in Gaza.

The next day, Wiener released a statement saying the protesters made "physical contact" and "made it impossible for me to safely remain in the park." The video, which garnered millions of views, was posted on X by Dimitry Yakoushkin, who wrote, "Scott Wiener showed up to the trans march and for the first time we kicked his ass out."

Organizers of the 22-year-old event doubled down on the protesters' criticism in a statement on Tuesday, even as dozens of political leaders signed a letter saying the confrontation had gone too far.

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In a way I haven't seen in a hot minute.

There are some issues in the community - that obviously I'll not be posting on DU for reasons well known to you - that are already simmering because of stuff like this. If the radical activists really want to tip that apple cart, they won't win.

I don't know if they've read a newspaper this week, but playing the "how many allies can we alienate?" game at this juncture in our politics is certainly a choice somebody is making.

I think this was after the initial one with the deranged fucks attacking him at the park. The employees had to throw him out. Other customers were shouting at the attacker (that was good).

Being attacked by 'liberals' for not being adequately supportive of a homophobic repressive regime.

Wild times.