Sausage-Wielding Extremists Attack Vegan Cafe In Tbilisi - Polidicks

[URL="http://www.rferl.org/content/georgia-nationalists-attack-vegan-cafe-with-sausages/27766236.html"]SOURCE[/URL] [QUOTE]A vegan cafe in the historic center of Tbilisi was forced to cancel an English-language film screening over the weekend when a group described by witnesses as far-right extremists threw meat into patrons' vegan dinners and started a brawl.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE]But within the former Soviet republic of Georgia, and considering the angry nature of the violence at Kiwi Cafe, there are darker concerns.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE]A statement issued on May 30 through [B][URL="https://www.facebook.com/kiwi.vegan.cafe/"]Kiwi Cafe's Facebook page[/URL][/B]described the incident as "an antivegan provocative action" and called the attackers "neo-Nazis" who support "fascist ideas."[/QUOTE]

[quote]The statement said the same group had come to the neighborhood a month earlier and asked a nearby shopkeeper whether foreigners or members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community frequented the cafe.[/quote] Count on skinheads to focus on the [I]important[/I] issues in their country.

lol, why do people act so uppity about vegans. Most people dont even know any vegans, and if they do they probably dont know it.

How could another person's dietary choices make someone angry? Even out of bullshit issues this has to be the most bullshit of them all.

what a bunch of dumbasses

I'm gonna pretend they're probably stereotyping vegans as gay or something because I can't wrap my head around why they would do this because they are vegans otherwise these are the lamest Nazis ever

[QUOTE=Rubs10;50427509]lol, why do people act so uppity about vegans. Most people dont even know any vegans, and if they do they probably dont know it.[/QUOTE] I wouldn't be surprised if they assume vegans are LGBT. If your only exposure to them is through something like tumblr it could be an easy mistake to make.

[QUOTE=_Kent_;50427594]How could another person's dietary choices make someone angry? Even out of bullshit issues this has to be the most bullshit of them all.[/QUOTE] It's part of the evil communist gangster computer god conspiracy, veganism eroding our true European heritage in diet...

Can't understand why so mad to people only eat vegetables. Why people can just accept this and move on?

[quote]A statement issued on May 30 through Kiwi Cafe's Facebook pagedescribed the incident as "an antivegan provocative action" and called the attackers "neo-Nazis" who support "fascist ideas."[/quote] From 0 to Godwin in record time.

[QUOTE=pramadito;50428034]Can't understand why so mad to people only eat vegetables. Why people can just accept this and move on?[/QUOTE] Vegetarians are one thing. Vegans are usually associated as being very anti-meat and they're the only ones you'll really hear about in media. One is in moderation, the other is the extreme.

[QUOTE=Rubs10;50427509]lol, why do people act so uppity about vegans. Most people dont even know any vegans, and if they do they probably dont know it.[/QUOTE] As someone that doesn't like veganism, sometimes they'll catch you off-guard. I haven't really met an uppity vegan in person.

[QUOTE=Pretiacruento;50428515]From 0 to Godwin in record time.[/QUOTE] Sounds like you didn't read the full article. Take another look.

Not even vegans are this belligerent about other people's food, I'm impressed.

[QUOTE=Rubs10;50427509]lol, why do people act so uppity about vegans. Most people dont even know any vegans, and if they do they probably dont know it.[/QUOTE] Imho this is less about the Vegans and more that the cafe is probably often frequented by the left. Even moreso if the cafe takes part in the more left community. It's just a stand in for something else.

[QUOTE=archangel125;50428815]Sounds like you didn't read the full article. Take another look.[/QUOTE] I have. And I fail to see the correlation between a couple of vandals looking to get a rise out of vegans, and neo-nazis and fascism. [editline]31st May 2016[/editline] [quote]a group described by witnesses as far-right extremists[/quote] ^ There. If anything, they sound as stupid as the dudes who went in attacking the café, waving sausages and throwing pieces of meat around. "Everyone I don't agree with must be a neo-nazi."

[QUOTE=Pretiacruento;50428896]I have. And I fail to see the correlation between a couple of vandals looking to get a rise out of vegans, and neo-nazis and fascism. [editline]31st May 2016[/editline] ^ There. If anything, they sound as stupid as the dudes who went in attacking the café, waving sausages and throwing pieces of meat around. "Everyone I don't agree with must be a neo-nazi."[/QUOTE] Are you blind? Read the bit I quoted in my post literally right after the OP.

[QUOTE=Rubs10;50427509]lol, why do people act so uppity about vegans. Most people dont even know any vegans, and if they do they probably dont know it.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=_Kent_;50427594]How could another person's dietary choices make someone angry?[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Sableye;50427710]I'm gonna pretend they're probably stereotyping vegans as gay or something because I can't wrap my head around why they would do this because they are vegans[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=pramadito;50428034]Can't understand why so mad to people only eat vegetables. Why people can just accept this and move on?[/QUOTE] Literally two thirds of the article is explaining why this has nothing to do with vegans. I guess I'll paste the relevant bits if you all can't be bothered to skim the link before replying: [quote][B]Taken out of the context of recent events in Tbilisi, the incident could be dismissed by some as part of a backlash that has emerged on social media recently against anticarnivorous vegan rhetoric in Western counterculture[/B]. (That reaction is illustrated by a trending YouTube clip called [B][URL="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0O_VYcsIk8"]If Meat Eaters Acted Like Vegans[/URL][/B].) But within the former Soviet republic of Georgia, and considering the angry nature of the violence at Kiwi Cafe, there are darker concerns. A statement issued on May 30 through [B][URL="https://www.facebook.com/kiwi.vegan.cafe/"]Kiwi Cafe's Facebook page[/URL][/B] described the incident as "an antivegan provocative action" and called the attackers "neo-Nazis" who support "fascist ideas." The statement said the same group had come to the neighborhood a month earlier and asked a nearby shopkeeper whether foreigners or members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community frequented the cafe.[/quote] [quote]Just three days before the attack at Kiwi Cafe, during Georgia's May 26 celebrations marking independence from the former Soviet Union, [B]a group of Georgian nationalist extremists marched in the streets of Tbilisi chanting and carrying banners with the slogan "Georgians for Georgia."[/B] For Georgians, that slogan is an obvious twist on a catchphrase that has specific, dark connotations in the country: "Georgia for Georgians." The phrase was among the anti-Soviet slogans that emerged from Georgia's chaotic rebirth as an independent post-Soviet republic. For many Georgians, the slogan brings back memories of policies and declarations by Georgia's first post-Soviet president, Zviad Gamsakhurdia, that were aimed at protecting the Georgian state and ethnic Georgians. It also recalls the atmosphere that led ethnic minorities, supported by Russia, to declare independence in Georgia's breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. The slogan also stirs memories of the tense atmosphere in the newly independent Caucasus country when Georgia's armed ethnic conflicts broke out during the early 1990s. In 2005, then-President Mikheil Saakashvili declared that "Georgia for Georgians" was a "poisonous nationalistic slogan." But since 2013, when violent threats against gay activists in Tbilisi forced them to cancel a gay-pride parade in the Georgian capital, [B]the slogan has appeared as spray-painted graffiti near Heroes Square in the city center alongside Nazi swastikas and racist slogans.[/B][/quote] Homophobic nationalists hold a rally a couple of days before the attack, after the same group had come through a month before looking for the LGBT community and foreigners, specifically targeting those groups. They targeted the cafe because it's a center for foreigners and LGBT people and they did it in the form of a bizarre provocation that turned into a brawl.

I live with a vegan. It's great more meat for the meat eaters.

One might say these assailants had links to the far right.

I am more surprised there is a New Zealand icon cafe styled name in Georgia. Although I would be upset if I had came across it if I was in Georgia and found it was a vegan cafe, us Kiwis love our meat.

[QUOTE=The Commander;50433946]Kiwis love our meat.[/QUOTE] I'm sure you do :3

[QUOTE=raz r23;50433812]I live with a vegan. It's great more meat for the meat eaters.[/QUOTE] It's the quiet ones that'll steal your bacon though

Attacking people with your meat seems to defeat the point of you being mad about gay people.