[PapaBear3625]

I was referring to your post #42 where you said "It’s a strange local Italian tradition where young Italians dress up like Krampus and run around hitting random people with bendable branches".

Local authorities would tolerate a tradition where masked native youth go around lightly swatting people in fun. They would NOT tolerate a tradition of masked native teens committing serious assault on random people for fun.

This was not a "clowning around" make-believe swatting. The Krampus' were seriously pissed off at the people they hit and chased. There was something going on.

[edwinland]

Exactly. This is a video of a local tradition that involves hitting people getting out of hand and a couple of the participants committing serious assault. Someone recorded the assault.

Then, without any idea of what was going on (or where it was going on) or what the “parade” was about, a random nutjob on twitter made up an story about migrants attacking St. Nicholas and getting pummeled in return, so every other nutjob on twitter could revel in the delicious violence of “black” “migrants” getting seriously assaulted.

That’s bad enough. But it gets worse. Then a garbage “news” source makes up an article based on nothing but the nutjob’s tweet as clickbait for people who enjoy watching violence.

Then it gets even worse, because a Freeper posts the same garbage here, and other Freepers (some of whom sometimes claim to be part Christian) then post dozens of comments reveling in the violence.

Not what I joined FR for.

You?