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Venue nixes Trump-inspired event following warning of possible influx of white supremacists
Alternet via MSN ^ | 07/19/2022 | Meaghan Ellis

Posted on 07/19/2022 5:48:47 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

The owner of a New York-based venue that was scheduled to host the Trump-inspired "ReAwaken America" tour next month has announced his plan to cancel the upcoming event. On Monday, July 18, Scott Donaldson — the owner of Main Street Armory — sent an email to announce his decision to cancel the event.

According to Business Insider, Donaldson wrote that he "made his decision after 'careful thought' and in response to an outpouring 'of concern from our community, both good and bad.'"

I'd like to say that the Main Street Armory is an equal opportunity and non-political venue," Donaldson's statement read, according to Spectrum News. "We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, gender expression, age, national origin, disability, etc."

I believe everyone has the right to their own opinions and beliefs," he continued.

The tour was initially set to make pitstops in Rochester, N.Y. on August 12 and 13 at Donaldson's venue. Since kicking off in April, it has visited numerous red states including Colorado, Florida, Michigan, Ohio, and Texas, its website points out.

Organized by the conservative podcast host, Clay Clark, the tour — which has featured a number of far-right keynote speakers like MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, InfoWars host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, Roger Stone, and former U.S. National Security Advisor Michael Flynn— has been criticized and panned as a "hotbed for far-right extremist groups like QAnon," per Business Insider.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
KEYWORDS: cancelculture; event; maga; mainstreetarmory; rally; scottdonaldson; searchandfind; tds; trump; whitesupremacists
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According to Baptist News Global, some Christian leaders have also expressed concern about the tour, suggesting it "promotes Christian nationalism that pushes 'anti-democratic, pro-violence and Q-Anon-inspired ideology.'"
1 posted on 07/19/2022 5:48:47 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

If you are running a non-political venue a Trump rally probably isn’t meant to be in your place.


2 posted on 07/19/2022 5:53:18 PM PDT by Jim Noble (I’ve stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains)
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To: SeekAndFind

Horsefeathers. He was threatened. Then he had to come up with some feeble excuse.

Who knows what he was threatened with.


3 posted on 07/19/2022 5:55:00 PM PDT by Sarcazmo ("Sarcasm is the highest form of wit" ~ O. Wilde)
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To: SeekAndFind

Oh my such a group of dangerous people…../s


4 posted on 07/19/2022 6:01:42 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: SeekAndFind

I guess it was the RAT Nazi anal orifices who issued the warning. Either them or their anal orifices in the “mainstream media”.


5 posted on 07/19/2022 6:02:17 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (First, they stole our elections. Then, they stole our country.)
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To: SeekAndFind

White people are a threat to everyone, and are supremacists by default.
Ban them!


6 posted on 07/19/2022 6:03:41 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
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To: SeekAndFind

The left has taken over all the institutions. Before long, conservatives will not be able to leave their homes at all.


7 posted on 07/19/2022 6:04:05 PM PDT by CFW
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To: SeekAndFind

So, how many of these concerned, outpouring community members are actually FBI agents?


8 posted on 07/19/2022 6:04:33 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Bus No. 2525)
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To: SeekAndFind

I’ll bet Scotty wouldn’t think twice about sponsoring a Sadie Hawkins dance for BLM and their Aunt Teefuses.


9 posted on 07/19/2022 6:05:22 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (First, they stole our elections. Then, they stole our country.)
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To: SeekAndFind

“Some Christian leaders” ? Probably some of the same that think killing unborn babies is okay.


10 posted on 07/19/2022 6:11:29 PM PDT by Old Coach1
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To: SeekAndFind

“Christian Nationalism” is a phrase that has been co-opted and used by many disparate groups and individuals to mean equally many different things.

Southern Poverty Law Center, that notorious hive of scum and villainy, would apply it to any white American wearing a cross. Others might actually use it with full intent to encompass white supremacist ideas.

As with so many things, now, one cannot simply express positive hopes for anyone without being accused of discriminating actively against everyone else.

It must be pointed out, however, that — at root — Christian Nationalism finds its history in what the British called “The Black Brigade”: the American clergy of the Revolutionary period, who preached messages of freedom, for free men, set free in Christ, to rightly live lives of Earthy — not only spiritual — freedom and liberty.

In the modern hour, however, what it means to be “Christian” lies at the bottom of one of the more murky pools of human depravity. It may be biblically articulated in any of ten thousand churches on Sunday, but ask a parishioner on Thursday and the answer you get will be hit or miss; all the worse if you query a heathen.

Similarly, people are confused what it means to be a “nationalist.” The simple idea of being a person who upholds the good of their own country has been eclipsed by a particularly noxious cloud of liberal self-loathing that has been projected onto the idea of what “America” means, and is supposed to be.

So, with such a swirling miasma of confusion and disagreement over the very meanings of “Christian” and “Nationalism,” how can any sane person pretend to commend or condemn “Christian Nationalism”? One might commend it today, using a set definition, and have an equally credible voice damn it tomorrow using a different definition.

Until there’s an established meaning nailed firmly to the phrase, no intelligent discussion can reasonably proceed; and given this generations inability to define manifestly clear things like “woman,” I doubt any clear idea of “Christian Nationalism” will ever arise.


11 posted on 07/19/2022 6:23:12 PM PDT by HKMk23 (https://youtu.be/LTseTg48568)
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To: SeekAndFind

There is probably going to be white people there . . .


12 posted on 07/19/2022 6:23:42 PM PDT by Pilgrim's Progress (http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

FBI agents?

Likely none; more probably leftists flagged to fly to their keyboards and air their “concerns” via a mass email from someplace like the SPLC.


13 posted on 07/19/2022 6:24:41 PM PDT by HKMk23 (https://youtu.be/LTseTg48568)
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To: SeekAndFind

These people are so clueless.

Let me guess, these are the same places that supported BLM
in all it’s glory.


14 posted on 07/19/2022 6:30:47 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance the flag of the U S of A, and to the REPUBLIC for which stands.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Liberals are extremely tolerant of people they agree with.


15 posted on 07/19/2022 6:36:51 PM PDT by bray (The Vax is fake and deadly)
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To: SeekAndFind


16 posted on 07/19/2022 6:43:10 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
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To: SeekAndFind

“We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, gender expression, age, national origin, disability, etc.”

I believe everyone has the right to their own opinions and beliefs”.

To say all that and still cancel is what we in non-political circles call “bullshit”.

CC


17 posted on 07/19/2022 6:47:00 PM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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To say all that and still cancel is what we in non-political circles call “bullshit”.

100%

.

18 posted on 07/19/2022 6:50:12 PM PDT by TLI (ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: SeekAndFind

influx of white supremacists = infiltration by feds


19 posted on 07/19/2022 7:07:55 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew ("Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese." -G.K. Chesterton)
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To: SeekAndFind

Why doesn’t the media ever report on black extremists? Hispanic extremists? Asian extremists?


20 posted on 07/19/2022 7:17:40 PM PDT by rfreedom4u ("You may all go to hell and I will go to Texas")
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