Been seeing this all over on Twitter, apparently someone paid for ad space for it. I don't know anything about the group involved, site seems pretty basic. I see a lot of people freaking out, telling people not to go, it'll be Charlottesville all over again, etc.
Obviously, people should be careful and do what they think is safest for themselves and those around them. On the other hand, there's very few things more cut and dry than what this is. I have been to plenty of protests, I've done activism. The vast majority of activism, protests, etc, have no bad outcome. Personally, I find a lot of the hand wringing and pearl clutching about these things from supposed "dissidents" to be disgusting.
I think, if you care about this issue, and you are able to go, you should consider going. Be careful, keep your head on a swivel. But you will never see ideas like this take hold if we continue to hide. I hope that nothing happens at this protest, I hope everyone stays safe. But given the things I've done in the past, I'd be a hypocrite if I used fear of the worst case scenario to tell people to just stay home.
Austin deserves justice. We have to fight for him to get it. It's as simple as that.
