Perspective: A small group of white nationalists marched into a bookstore in Washington over the weekend. There were no guns or burning torches. But it was still frightening.
By Petula Dvorak Petula Dvorak Local columnist Email Bio Follow Columnist April 29 at 2:49 PM A small group of white nationalists marched into a sacred place in Washington over the weekend.An author at one of D.C.’s most beloved bookstores had just begun his talk Saturday when the group came into Politics and Prose — a temple of words and pages, a church of discussion and debate.
“The irony of this whole situation is the talk I was giving at Politics and Prose actually agreed with some of the points that they are making,” said Metzl, a psychiatrist and director of the Center for Medicine, Health and Society at Vanderbilt University. But rather than debate Metzl’s research, rather than ask him questions about his ideas, the Saturday visitors decided to stand at attention in a phalanx between the author and the audience and bullhorn their message.
No further plans on how to do this, though. Instead, they began chanting “This land is our land,” pumping their fists in the air and echoing the words of super-leftie Woodie Guthrie and leaving out the “This land is your land” part.“This was threatening, absolutely,” said Helen Marie Streich, 81, who was among the crowd that flooded Politics and Prose on Sunday. The whole place was buzzing. And Metzl’s book was so on fire that it sold out.
And then it turns out that at least one of the men stomping through the aisles at the bookstore is a vocal Holocaust denier, according to a group, Panic! in the Dischord, that identifies and researches these guys.Yes, sure. And the co-owner of the store, Bradley Graham, didn’t want to make too big a deal out of the incident.He gets security for authors – usually celebrities — who request protection. But he doesn’t plan to change anything about the readings or the lineup.
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