Nevada student defends presence at Charlottesville rally
Source: USA Today
RENO A student at the University of Nevada, Reno said things are "spiraling out of control" since he was identified as a participant in a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., over the weekend.
Peter Cvjetanovic, 20, a history and political science major, was identified by the Twitter account @yesyoureracist after his photo was taken holding a torch with what appears to be an angry expression on his face.
I have received death threats, said Cvjetanovic, who plans to report to the Reno Police Department at least five instances that he feels are legitimate threats. He said the threats have been violent and graphic.
He added he is not telling anyone his plans to return to Nevada for fear he may be attacked.
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Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/08/14/charlottesville-nevada-student-defends-presence-rally/564472001/
NRaleighLiberal
(60,034 posts)jeffreyi
(1,945 posts)Floyd R. Turbo
(26,700 posts)Leghorn21
(13,527 posts)Nitram
(22,951 posts)I'm sure he has a perfectly plausible explanation for everything.
Leghorn21
(13,527 posts)Nitram
(22,951 posts)Leghorn21
(13,527 posts)damn, that's big - Peter must need "large print"?!
jmowreader
(50,588 posts)irisblue
(33,053 posts)Lonestarblue
(10,155 posts)It's usually shown with the point of the triangle at the top, though, so having the side up may have some meaning--or maybe it's just someone too stupid to get the logo sewn on correctly!
irisblue
(33,053 posts)I was naive about this, I just learned you can buy that chit online.
Baby Jesus Weeps
Leghorn21
(13,527 posts)Behind the Aegis
(54,049 posts)This is the KKK one:
The one he is wearing is this, Identity Evropa:
It was hard to find a picture that didn't link directly to their odious site.
murielm99
(30,782 posts)I almost ended up at that storm front site earlier today. I would not click on them willingly for anything.
yardwork
(61,772 posts)Behind the Aegis
(54,049 posts)(see my post above)
irisblue
(33,053 posts)So after a fast wiki search...that group is the KKK for neo Nazis of European descent?
That whole bunch is the swamp that needs drained...
Oneironaut
(5,541 posts)BHDem53
(1,061 posts)without a few hundred of his loser buddies around him.
Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)GeorgeGist
(25,326 posts)has consequences.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)arithia
(455 posts)I do not endorse violence of any kind. That being said...
I have no sympathy for anyone who proudly wears symbols of a pro-segregation, anti-Jewish, white nationalist organization on their goddamn polo shirt while shouting hate-filled slogans and carrying a tiki torch like an angry villager in a Frankenstein movie.
Minorities of all stripes have died for centuries due to the beliefs this man is promoting- that non-whites are somehow inferior and don't have a place at the table. THAT is what he is promoting and to whine that people outside of his tiny, insular bubble don't like what he has to say is pathetic.
This man is PROUD of his hate. He should be willing to own the social consequences that it carries with it.
Nitram
(22,951 posts)arithia
(455 posts)People have died by the millions because of this bullshit. He doesn't have the right to whine that people don't like him spreading that hate.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Nitram
(22,951 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Pictures of this Guy with Heller and other wannabe get reelectable Republicans. My sense is,this Guy gets expelled shortly.
Ford_Prefect
(7,927 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Sinclair Media.
Ford_Prefect
(7,927 posts)I envision him working with James O'Keefe on ground-breaking video from inside the vast academic conspiracy to deny conservative views a public voice...He seems a perfect fit.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Bengus81
(6,937 posts):small
Kleveland
(1,257 posts)Wasn't one of those soulless buggers shouting:
"These Jew lovers are gassing us!"
Referring of course to the police I believe.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)But this is what he is on the inside. All those advantages, and he choose to be this. What a waste.
irisblue
(33,053 posts)How does a history-poli
sci major not understand the general outlining facts of American&World History, let alone 20th February American political thought?
You shame your history department.
You shame your family.
Lifelong Protester
(8,421 posts)He should have thought of the ramifications BEFORE he picked up the torch.
Aristus
(66,522 posts)Now you know how it feels, douche-rag...
lark
(23,191 posts)you get attacked right back. He was totally OK with yelling threats and taunts and hate when he was part of a pack, but by himself, he's just a mangey little yapping dog, hiding in a corner and pissing on himself because the people he growled at are threatening to bite him back. I hope he gets kicked out of school.
perdita9
(1,144 posts)I wonder what he'd have to say about that
SweetieD
(1,660 posts)like this reconciles their desire for genocide and/or slavery of people who are "naturally unequal" with the violence they get in response. If they got their wish, there would be massive violence against groups they believe are inferior, but he cries when he gets threats of violence against himself.
I hope some all of this opens up some of these young men's eyes and hearts so they can see how foolish they sound.
LisaM
(27,850 posts)I don't advocate the death threats, either, but I do hope this event occasions some deep soul-searching with some of these people.
Phentex
(16,334 posts)Let the hunter feel what it's like to be hunted.
NYC Liberal
(20,138 posts)as subhumans who dont have rights. They are superior and do have rights.
perdita9
(1,144 posts)1) They stop being rewarded for it
2) They receive negative consequences for their actions
rurallib
(62,478 posts)BamaRefugee
(3,488 posts)FuzzyRabbit
(1,970 posts)The Nazis wanted to exterminate all Eastern Europeans. They would have put him in a cattle car in a heartbeat.
And this twerp studies history?
BamaRefugee
(3,488 posts)a sweltering closed up boxcar marked "TREBLINKA"
History indeed
Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)Apparently he thinks it's O.K. for him threaten others, but when the favor is returned he cringes like any coward.
obamanut2012
(26,181 posts)Vinca
(50,326 posts)The Genealogist
(4,723 posts)A ticker-tape parade down Broadway? A worshipful throng at the airport to welcome home a hero? This little weasel travels all the way to Virginia to participate in hate, is photographed with a wild look on his face in the middle of a nazi rally, and then has the gall to whine when he gets a taste of his own medicine.
flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)His poster boy for that same disorder is in the White House, dog-whistling words of encouragement. He thought there was safety in numbers, which is why he crossed the country to spew his facism instead of doing it on the quad at UNR where he goes to school.
PS--How do all these students, hot-dog sandwich artists, and other young, un-monied losers afford airfare, lodging and loss of wages to travel across the country to participate in hate speech? Who is funding this?
The Genealogist
(4,723 posts)Most college kids I have known (and I have known quite a few) aren't that well funded. Someone must have paid for a lot of these little charmers to travel from all over the nation for their hatefest.
obamanut2012
(26,181 posts)For real, they are saying that.
obamanut2012
(26,181 posts)There were POC and less white collar folks in Cville, of course, but the snowflakes expected them to be "traitor" and "violent." I don't think there were expecting some of the rest of what happened, including what has happened after.
irisblue
(33,053 posts)The citronella in the tiki torch coveted the cloud of Axe body spray.
FuzzyRabbit
(1,970 posts)Or at least no repercussions.
Marthe48
(17,112 posts)probably thought they were the silent majority. russia probably thought so too. What a joke. The only people the MSM chooses to interview are the wild-eyed haters, and so the wild-eyed haters think there are a lot more of them out there. And they are in a bubble. Would I be wrong thinking that the haters hang out with white people, avoid minorities, avoid learning about the real world? And so they end up thinking that they have the numbers to dominate? Ha.
We shall overcome. We shall overcome. We shall overcome someday.
O, deep in my heart, I do believe
We shall overcome someday.
....
We are not afraid. We are not afraid. We are not afraid, today.
O, deep in my heart, I do believe
We shall overcome someday.
LakeArenal
(28,867 posts)Sometimes I think laughing at them hurts them more than bullets.....
keithbvadu2
(37,035 posts)rollin74
(1,995 posts)statements and talk about Hitler
this creature doesn't deserve to be allowed to study or work at UNR
PETITION TO FIRE AND EXPEL PETER CVJETANOVIC
https://www.change.org/p/university-of-nevada-reno-fire-expel-peter-cvjetanovic?recruiter=757930981&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=share_twitter_responsive
UNR FACEBOOK PAGE (leave comments to pressure the university)
https://www.facebook.com/UniversityofNevada/
broadcaster90210
(333 posts)By all means make your own choices. But be assured that choices have consequences. If you don't mind the consequnce, then proceed.
Paladin
(28,283 posts)Bladewire
(381 posts)kimbutgar
(21,270 posts)I would not put it past them.
hurple
(1,307 posts)If you can't take the heat, stay away from the tiki torch.
Solly Mack
(90,800 posts)You spend time at that rally building up your ego and spouting your hate with your like-minded friends but can't understand why people would be offended by you and your beliefs?
You think just because you have a legal right to free speech that hate speech shouldn't cost you anything?
Those on the receiving end of your hate speech don't think you should get a free pass on your hate.
This is what happens.
lame54
(35,345 posts)BadgerMom
(2,772 posts)please turn down the volume on the wah-mbulance.
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,355 posts)Maybe you can get an idea how African Americans, Jews and Gays feel about mobs of white Nazis marching with torches.
moonseller66
(430 posts)One wonders how an identified KKK or Neo-nazi or other so called white supremacist (Pink skin supremacist? Peach colored supremacist?) would react to, say, a hundred counter protesters carrying signs letting his neighbors know what kind of person he is? I'm sure the local Blue suits would be their in an instant to remove them. But what a wonderful way to show the neighbors of these fascists who they live beside.
jmowreader
(50,588 posts)Cvjetanovic is a Croatian name. I would LOVE to be able to take this asshole back to the Balkans in the early 1990s and show him all the Croats who were wiped off the face of the earth by people who believe just as he does now.
ProfessorGAC
(65,381 posts)You want to spread hate, and people hate you back and you're afraid?
10 seconds of forethought could have prevented your fears you cowardly twit!
Don't be a dickhead and don't spend your weekend at a Nazi rally 2800 miles a way
Even for a dimwit like you, that should be easy to figure out
Punk!
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)A little ass kicking is a different matter
rollin74
(1,995 posts)UNR President Marc Johnson is a coward who refuses to do the right thing
Blue Idaho
(5,067 posts)Let's see what the University Student Association has to say.
EarthFirst
(2,906 posts)Or is the hooded, 'southern heritage' look a bit outdated?
I hope your jaw is wired shut by the end of the week, scumbag!
Gothmog
(145,839 posts)Blue Idaho
(5,067 posts)His student code of conduct agreement. He could and should be thrown out of school for participating in a violent racist rally. That could also stop him for being enrolled in any other state institution in all 50 states.
rollin74
(1,995 posts)employment
Blue Idaho
(5,067 posts)He may say that now but he may also have to change his tune. The VP of Student Affairs and Student Government usually also have a say in these situations. In the end - if he stays, he may be the most hated man on campus.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,249 posts)In fact, sometimes they carry them out. I'm pretty sure the anti-Nazi crowd has a body count of zero.
Doc Coco
(58 posts)And have the entire state ban him from entering any of their universities or colleges.
The rest will follow, and it will be nothing but minimum wage with firings every 27 days for the rest of his life.
Reno police should put this snowflake's complaint the least priority next to that crazy dude calling in at exactly 4:19 to bitch about Hitler's resurrection. You know, the police rule of handling nutjobs.