As someone from a truly diverse, dense urban environment and someone who lost family in WW2, I find the over the top political posturing in Boulder generally hyperbolic and self-serving rather than genuine or useful. The drama on the square has little to do with discouraging race supremacists than it does giving the sheltered whites of Boulder the opportunity to politically preen for an audience.

I'm sure I will get shit for this, but it's only because Boulderites are thin-skinned and in denial that they live in a tiny town in the middle of nowhere and see themselves as "urban" progressives when they are actually just people who live in a minuscule hick town in a flyover state.

Boulder is a tiny town at the base of a canyon that thinks a lot of itself, and if it wasn't for CU it wouldn't even be on the map. I wont be reading replies to this post because frankly, I don't care about the opinions of people who live in such a sheltered environment and think they are saving the world from Nazis by having hoopla on the town square. How hick is it to even have a "town square" LOL

The FBI and other agencies do a good job of tracking and dealing with hate groups, and I really don't think things like the drama on the square are useful. It just looked staged and intended to troll people and be an opportunity for everyone involved to act all dramatic.

In the case of hate groups it is best to ignore them and allow those trained in spying on and dismantling them to do their jobs. They don't need the help of privileged Boulder white kids in hoodies and preening rich progressives. Also, by giving them a group of adversaries, they are also giving them a recruitment tool.

I don't know or care about this "Proud Boys" group, although I read in the Camera that they are some men's rights troll group run by the guy that used to publish the Rooster who claim they aren't Nazis. The Rooster guy is a professional troll, so I'm skeptical he's a real player in racial hate and more of a d-bag opportunist getting 15 minutes from Boulderites who are excited to fantasize that they are freedom fighters stopping Hitler. To compare the ex-Rooster publisher to Hitler is exactly why Boulder is a joke.

Anyways, it seems like small time drama intended to make Boulderites feel like they are on the cutting edge of social justice rather than anything real. All this "anti-facist" political posturing in the US right now is just ego stroking for privileged political junkies. I have a degree in European History, so I'm well aware of the context of anti-facist movements, and from the looks of the people protesting, they don't really look like they read anything, much less understand the politics they are spewing. It's just pathetic and ignorant people on both sides (frat boys vs. privileged progressives) pretending that what happens in this little hick town is newsworthy and relevant to the broader world.

Boulder is a joke.