Black Lives Matter activists have no chill. A rally called Clown Lives Matter set to take place in Tucson, Arizona on Saturday was cancelled abruptly last minute because of the organizers received a series of death threats.
Clown enthusiasts organized the rally as a reaction to the creepy clown movement that has been terrorizing people across the country. Think of it as the clown version of police outreach to the communities.
Well #BlackLivesMatter wasn't having it. ABC reported that the organizer was flooded with death threats for even associating clowns with the same brand as group.
The chairman of Black Lives Matter Phoenix, Rev. Reginald Walton said to ABC that canceling the march was a good thing because it was too insensitive.
"We really are hoping that people understand the message is not to be taken lightly or usurped because this is a serious, serious issue," Walton told ABC News. "The violence has to stop."
These people need to calm down. Using the same wording as Black Lives Matter does not imply that the issue of police brutality cannot be taken seriously. There have been a plethora of satirical political movements that are an offshoot of current events, and it didn't cause anywhere near the outrage.
For instance there use to be a political party in California called "The Guns and Dope Party," which advocated for the end of restrictions on guns and drugs as well as the end of Tsarism and equal rights for ostriches. Libertarians didn't lose their minds that they were being mocked.
Back in 2010, Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart held the "Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear" to mock Glenn Beck and the tea party movement. Once again, no outcry, no death threats, because there was no social justice warriors.