Helluva story. Here's the whole thing from Wiki:

The Christie Pits riot occurred on 16 August 1933 at the Christie Pits (Willowvale Park) playground in Toronto, Canada. The riot can only be understood in the context of the anti-semitism, Swastika clubs and parades and resentment of "foreigners" in Toronto, and the rise of Hitler and the Nazis in Germany in 1933.[1]

The riot, which lasted six hours, broke out after a quarter-final baseball game at Christie Pits Park between two local clubs, Harbord Playground, predominantly Jewish, and St. Peter's, a baseball team sponsored by a church at Bathurst and Bloor.[2]

The riot occurred soon after Adolf Hitler took power in Germany and in the midst of the Great Depression. The Toronto papers, including the Telegram and the Toronto Star, as well as the Yiddish journal, Der Yiddisher Zhurnal, reported on how Jews were being dismissed as lawyers, professors, teachers, etc. in Germany, as well as incidents of violence against them. Thus to Jews the swastika represented degradation and physical violence against Jews, and was inflammatory.[3]

At that time, the Jewish community in Toronto was predominantly poor and working class. They were also the subject of discrimination and were excluded from summer resorts outside of the city. Jewish families and youths in particular would therefore cool off during the hot summer months by staying in town and going to the predominantly Anglo Beaches area in order to swim. This resulted in complaints and resentment from some local residents. Some of the locals formed "Swastika Clubs", which openly displayed the Nazi symbol to express their displeasure and make Jews feel unwanted.[4] The leaders of the Swastika Club initially insisted that the swastika had nothing to do with Hitler. They said they merely wanted to keep the Beach clean. After a meeting with Jewish leaders backed by City officials, the Swastika club agreed to drop its symbol and its name. At that point, several of the members joined the Swastika Association of Canada that was much more open about its links to Hitler.[5]

The night of the riot was the second game between Harbord and St. Peter's. Two nights earlier, at the first game of the series, a swastika had been displayed. Police were warned that there could be trouble at the second game, but those warnings were ignored. After the final out of the second game, Pit Gang members displayed a blanket with a large swastika painted on it. A number of Jewish boys and young men who had heard about the previous Swastika incident rushed the Swastika sign to destroy it, supporters of both sides (including Italians who supported the Jews) from the surrounding area joined in, and a fight started.[6]

The Toronto Daily Star described the event the next day:
“ While groups of Jewish and Gentile youths wielded fists and clubs in a series of violent scraps for possession of a white flag bearing a swastika symbol at Willowvale Park last night, a crowd of more than 10,000 citizens, excited by cries of ‘Heil Hitler’ became suddenly a disorderly mob and surged wildly about the park and surrounding streets, trying to gain a view of the actual combatants, which soon developed in violence and intensity of racial feeling into one of the worst free-for-alls ever seen in the city.

Scores were injured, many requiring medical and hospital attention... Heads were opened, eyes blackened and bodies thumped and battered as literally dozens of persons, young or old, many of them non-combatant spectators, were injured more or less seriously by a variety of ugly weapons in the hands of wild-eyed and irresponsible young hoodlums, both Jewish and Gentile".[7]
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No one was killed in the riots. There was criticism of the police for not being ready to intervene, as they had been during previous potential problems in the Beach area.[8] After the riot, Mayor Stewart warned against displaying the swastika and there were no further riots.[9]

The riot revealed the xenophobic attitudes toward Jews and other non-Anglo immigrants among Anglo Canadians. Jews represented the largest minority in Toronto in 1933 and were thus a target of xenophobic residents.

In August 2008, a Heritage Toronto plaque was presented to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the riot.

I'm glad I watched the whole thing...it was very informative especially about the Librarians and the Gag orders.

EDIT: It appears I spoke to soon because some guy just went in-FUCKING-sane repeatedly demanding an answer to the question who kills more people government or corporations. Not only is it beside the point of what this discussion was fundamentally about, but it was asked in a sort of wild-eyed psychotic conspiratorial way that placed a "The End is Near" sign around the spokesholes neck! It honestly upset me how crazy this person sounded because you could sense his desperation to be relevant while having his ass throughly handed to him but a much cleverer commentator.

It is a commentary on his lack of experience...

Sure Winstonfield, sure.

In the last 18 months these RADICALS...

Have you ever considered that you are the radical (or reactionary)? Is it possible that paranoid gubmint hating god fearing folks are the nutjobs? Any objective view Obama suggests he is still very much right of center, even if it doesn't fit into your worldview. It takes a certain kind of true-believer to suggest Obama is nearing communist territory - and a healthy disregard for political scaling or measurement. Ask anyone who isn't a partisan or teabagger. Better yet, ask anyone from a different country. They'll tell you. Hyperbole is so much more fun though, right?

doubling down on leftist economics, europe in shambles, right-wing economics to the rescue

Even Britain's Conservatives are wild-eyed radicals in your mind. Federal money for kid's hospices? Communist!!!

Please...
Lousy polling?

45.7% after a months-long oil spill....this man is clearly hated by the country and 'Real Americans'TM are clearly lined up against him.

I guess in your mind the following numbers are proof positive of a complete outrage on behalf of 'Real Americans'TM? Or does this suggest that maybe Americans enjoy government intervention?

http://www.gallup.com/poll/140981/Verdict-Healthcare-Reform-Bill-Divided.aspx

And what's this? Majority of Americans support the creation of a public option? Heresy!

http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/archives/185853.asp

I can't tell if you really believe all this, or just like to fuck with people. I don't know which scenario I dislike more.
>> ^Winstonfield_Pennypacker:

gotta love the understated racism (man-child)
Incorrect. It is a commentary on his lack of experience, his spoiled & selfish behavior, and his general lack of any ability to actually deal with opposing ideas with any degree of maturity. But false accusations of racism when faced with opposition is a tradition on the left - as we've seen all too often lately.
the hyperbole (radicals)
In the last 18 months these radicals have implemented a plan to ration health care, quadrupled the national debt, established huge unconstitutional increases in federal power over finance and other industries - all against the will of the people. Bailouts, industry takeovers, tax increases, cap & tax, amnesty, health care reform, and on and on and on - all things solidly opposed by a 2/3 majority of the people (or higher). This administration and congress is the most left-wing, radical, out of step clot of extremists that this nation has ever seen in positions of power. The only people that 'like' what they're doing is the 25-30% or so of the country that occupies the far left. Conservatives, Repubicans, and Independents are roundly rejecting everything these radicals are doing - and they make up 65-70% of America.
the blanket portrayals of Europeans as poverty-stricken communists
While Obama & the other radicals are doubling down with leftist economics - Europe is doing the opposite. Greece, Italy, Spain, Britain, Germany - day after day the stories pile up about how they are turning to 'privitization' in order to save themselves from fiscal disasters. It isn't that they're poverty-stricken communists. It is that they have followed the misguided principles of leftist economics, and now they turning to capitalism to pull themselves out of the hole... All while the Man-Child is doing the opposite and putting American further in debt in a time of economic turmoil & trouble. Says something, don't it?
And the rhetorical attacks on Obama (how's his polling these days?
Pretty lousy - actually...
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/other/president_ob
ama_job_approval-1044.html
Isn't there majority support for Health Care reform? Isn't there still majority support for a Public Option?
In NeoLib-Lala-Land maybe, but not on planet Earth. The only thing there is 'majority support' for is for repealing the bill.
http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_conten
t/politics/current_events/healthcare/health_care_law
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20010453-503544.html
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/03/2
8/poll-finds-low-enthusiasm-high-skepticism-for-health-care-overh/
Folks on the left need to learn a lesson quickly. YOU ARE THE FRINGE. The left likes to walk around thinking they are mainstream and popular. You aren't. Leftist policy and philosophy is radical and unpopular. And when you try to ram it down people's throats it makes you even more radical and unpopular. Leftism isn't compassion. It is cruel. Leftism doesn't lead to prosperity or tolerance. It leads to poverty and balkanization.

It's depressing to know that there are people ignorant enough to jump on this wild eyed shit peddler's bandwagon. Even those who don't like the idea of Universal care should have some inkling that this guy doesn't have their best interest in mind.

Yeah! I've heard that exact quote... first time I heard it was about that Runaway Bride a few years ago, she definitely had the crazy eye thing goin...

In reply to this comment by inflatablevagina:
i have decided thats a way to figure out if someone is crazy.... if you can see the entire iris... theres an issue

In reply to this comment by ponceleon:
What's with the "wild-eyed" look? It interesting to me that a lot (though not all) or whackos tend to have that wide-eyed look about them... I wonder what the mechanism is there?

i have decided thats a way to figure out if someone is crazy.... if you can see the entire iris... theres an issue

In reply to this comment by ponceleon:
What's with the "wild-eyed" look? It interesting to me that a lot (though not all) or whackos tend to have that wide-eyed look about them... I wonder what the mechanism is there?

What's with the "wild-eyed" look? It interesting to me that a lot (though not all) or whackos tend to have that wide-eyed look about them... I wonder what the mechanism is there?

*islam *religion

I think we need a wild-eyed *Christianity channel too.

Can't bring myself to upvote this crackpot, and yes, I thought him every bit as crazy during the Bush years, so I'm not a hypocrite. Still, you are working so hard to get rid of that P. I bet a PM to quantumushroom or imstellar28 would probably get this piece of shoddy, wild-eyed speculation sifted.

Oh, c'mon, qualm. Ron Paul is no Alex Jones.

>> ^NetRunner:
>> ^blankfist:
Talk about putting words in someone's mouth. You made a blatant ad hominem attack on the guy in the video, saying he should be dismissed because of his wild eyes and because he's a Marxist. You didn't challenge his facts, or his reasoning, just whether he's got an acceptable ideological background or not.

Because I know of Rick Wolff, and I know of his political perspective, therefore his arguments are tiring to me. Forgive me for not challenging his data, but if he was in the room with us, I'd probably take this a bit more serious. Also, that motherfucker has some wild and crazy motherfuckin' eyes. Did you see them shits? He could scare Satan himself! Crazy talk. Crazy eyes. [/ad hominem]

Now, excuse me whilst I take a moment to put my penis in a pig.

>> ^blankfist:
I never said a conservative government forced banks to slit their own throats, NR, so please, my dearest friend, stop putting words in my mouth to try and win your argument.

No, you just said that government "shat the bed", and not the banks. The banks weren't forced at gunpoint to make bad loans that put their own survival at risk. Low interest rates doesn't mean decreased lending standards must naturally follow, nor do laws requiring that banks not discriminate about where they take their risks require them to increase the total amount of risk they take.

For government to have been at fault, it would've been by forcing the banks to do self-destructive things over the last decade, hence the conservative government forcing banks to slit their own throats. Perhaps to be more accurate I should say that there was an effort by the bank lobby to force both parties in congress to force the banks to slit their throat, but then we're back to the banks being at fault again.

And, no, Marxian Economists are NOT experts (or specialists) in critiquing Capitalist economic systems. That statement is no more true than me saying Republicans are experts (or "specialists") in critiquing Democrats. That's like saying if you oppose something, you immediately become the expert of your opposition!

Talk about putting words in someone's mouth. You made a blatant ad hominem attack on the guy in the video, saying he should be dismissed because of his wild eyes and because he's a Marxist. You didn't challenge his facts, or his reasoning, just whether he's got an acceptable ideological background or not.

Creationists are wrong because the evidence doesn't fit their theory, but that doesn't mean all Creationists are incapable of making valid arguments on related topics.

I call you out on that, and you accuse me of agreeing with everything this guy's ever stood for, and believing he's an authority not to be questioned. Truthfully I'm not even sure there's enough here for you to really call this an economic theory. It's more of a rabble-rousing rant partially fueled by economic data, and since I'm more of a political animal, I'm all for it.

I'm just saying you are making colorful and scatological responses that are fallacious, in my own colorful and scatological way.

Pigfucker.

>> ^blankfist:
That aside, the failed economy isn't reason to make a scapegoat out of Capitalism. Capitalism didn't "shit the bed" - government spending, and endless war, falsely propping up the housing market, etc. shat the bed.
When human greed belies the current economic system, I think we'd be remiss to denounce it eagerly.


Two points: First, you just shat your own bed by claiming that a conservative government forced banks to slit their own throats, financially speaking, and Second critiquing capitalism is fair game, just like it is to question Commisar President Obama. If critique of the dominant way of thought becomes verboten, it leads to tyranny (and more German words).

All the guy is saying is "hey, check out what's been happening with income disparity, doesn't seem fair, does it?"

PS: I bet you look just as wild eyed when talking about corn.

>> ^kronosposeidon:
But, but, but....this makes Colin Powell an un-American SOCIALIST! What happened to this proud military man who honorably served his country on the fields of battle, in the shit, during the Vietnam War? He became a COWARD! Why couldn't he have remained loyal to the dream of a rabidly conservative America that wild-eyed Michele Bachman envisions, like chicken hawks Dick Cheney, Rush Limbaugh, William Kristol, Frederick Kagan, etc. do?
I bet he's secretly an Islamic radical like Obama too.


If any of those assholes you mentioned were Americans they would response with a HELL YEAH too. You will see how American they are shortly.

>> ^kronosposeidon:
But, but, but....this makes Colin Powell an un-American SOCIALIST! What happened to this proud military man who honorably served his country on the fields of battle, in the shit, during the Vietnam War? He became a COWARD! Why couldn't he have remained loyal to the dream of a rabidly conservative America that wild-eyed Michele Bachman envisions, like chicken hawks Dick Cheney, Rush Limbaugh, William Kristol, Frederick Kagan, etc. do?
I bet he's secretly an Islamic radical like Obama too.


He's a scary angry black man too.

But, but, but....this makes Colin Powell an un-American SOCIALIST! What happened to this proud *military man who honorably served his country on the fields of battle, in the shit, during the Vietnam War? He became a COWARD! Why couldn't he have remained loyal to the dream of a rabidly conservative America that wild-eyed Michele Bachman envisions, like chicken hawks Dick Cheney, Rush Limbaugh, William Kristol, Frederick Kagan, etc. do?

I bet he's secretly an *Islamic radical like Obama too.