Because they are ugly.
“ But that gradual return to barefaced life never reached left-leaning protests…”
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Nor has it reached the criminal elements. Masking to hide identity has become NORMALIZED.
They mask up just as the BLMers did, as Antifa did and Occupy Wall Street did.
Terrorism is as terrorism does.
Note also that the supposed right wing group “Patriot Front” also wears masks. Just another deep state front group.
Because these protesters are basically a bunch of spineless cowards.
Crack them over their heads and they will stop protesting the same day.
But the Nazi league schools won’t do it because they are just as cowardly as the protesters and are Hamas supporters.
They want to show solidarity of this and that but want to remain anonymous but are real brave little cowards?
The eyes are almost as good as fingerprints or face photos. During Covid I went to several funerals in which everyone was masked. I recognized people there I had not seen in years just by their eyes.
It’s purely to hide their faces. The Covid stuff is just their excuse.
About 100 people showed up for the Students for Justice in Palestine teach-in on the steps of the UVA Rotunda. Photo by Eze Amos.
I do not agree with their cause.
Israel is our ally, they actually were attacked, we have formal defense specific agreements with them... Israel is a Western and liberal soceity with a rule of law that is surrounded by backward heathens and savages.
That said, in a Orwellian society where police show up with camera’s and record, after J6 where facial recognition was used to go after folks, do you really blame them in wanting to safegaurd their privacy in what has become a literal police state?
I also encourage all protestors (right, left, religous, athiest, white, black, Latino, gay or straight, for or against abortion) to leave their phones behind. You may as well be wearing a court ordered ankle monitor. Law enforcement and the IC will collect that data and put you at that location and time...
After J6 even those that never entered the Capital building were interviewed by the FBI (a perminent record is created) because of facial recognition and cell phone data. They dind’t even break the law!
Lawyer: So with his mask on you actually cannot state that my client is the one who relieved himself on the sidewalk and then threw a trash barrel onto the patrol car windshield.
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There is NO NEED for them to hide their faces. Their schools are on-board with their ideology AS WELL AS the FIB, DOJ, DHS, CIA, and the Joe Burden regime..
Liars.
I'm calling BS on that excuse.
It’s not about covid it’s about avoiding facial recognition software.
No jurisdiction should have laws against wearing a mask at a protest.
“— from being captured by facial recognition technology or becoming doxxed (their personal information being shared online) by counter-protesters.“
That’s cute that they think that. The truth is, the part of their face that is exposed is more than enough, not to mention all of the times during the day they are guaranteed to lower their mask for a few minutes of respite. Yeah, they’re going to get docs, yeah they’re not gonna get that cool job.
I’m old enough to remember when it was a crime to wear a mask at a protest.
Cowardice. They fear being identified and eventually criticized or punished.
Stinking cowards, all.
Criminals have been wearing masks for centuries.
A million patriots show up with baseball bats, then we can see them run like the sniveling little rat cowards they are.