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marmar

(78,412 posts) Wed Apr 24, 2024, 10:25 AM Apr 2024

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Racist billboards appeared across metro Detroit on Hitler's birthday

( Detroit Metro Times) Racist and pro-Nazi messages appeared on at least three digital billboards in metro Detroit over the weekend to celebrate Adolf Hitler’s birthday.

A group dubbed “White Lives Matter Michigan” took credit for the signs in Hazel Park, Mount Clemens, and Brownstown.

“White Lives Matter Michigan permeated censorship to obtain three roadside billboards throughout Southeastern Michigan to dog-whistle morale boosting messages to pro-Whites for this 4/20 Day of Action!” the group tweeted Saturday. ...........(more)

https://www.metrotimes.com/news/racist-messages-splashed-across-billboards-in-metro-detroit-on-hitlers-birthday-36078810

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Racist billboards appeared across metro Detroit on Hitler's birthday (Original Post) marmar Apr 2024 OP

Seems like there is a lawsuit or two in this somewhere. Oooops! We'll do better next time doesn't cut it. dutch777 Apr 2024 #1

I wouldn't have recognized the code words. What a nightmare Raven123 Apr 2024 #2

RE: 4/20 Postal Grunt Apr 2024 #3

dutch777

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1. Seems like there is a lawsuit or two in this somewhere. Oooops! We'll do better next time doesn't cut it.

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Wed Apr 24, 2024, 10:33 AM

Apr 2024

Raven123

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2. I wouldn't have recognized the code words. What a nightmare

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Wed Apr 24, 2024, 10:38 AM

Apr 2024

Postal Grunt

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3. RE: 4/20

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Wed Apr 24, 2024, 01:36 PM

Apr 2024

There's a good chance that on 4/20 Michiganders were paying more attention to the cannabis consumers in a state with recreational marijuana.

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