When it comes to silencing antigay street preachers, many strategies have been employed. But a new video depicting a Scottish teen using a set of bagpipes to drown out the cries of a belligerent bigot may be the best one yet.
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The video, appropriately titled Boy takes down hate preacher in the most Scottish way possible, was uploaded to the Internet earlier this month. It depicts an enraged homophobe shouting into a megaphone outside a restaurant.
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Moments later, the sound of bagpipes can be heard in the distance. Soon, the teen playing the instrument begins circling the preacher, who does not appear to be pleased about being upstaged. Shortly after that, a police van pulls up — “right on cue,” as one spectator observes — to tell the hate monger to get lost.
Check out the amazing video below.
Jim Loar
Now that’s fighting fire with fire… Or in this case windbag with windbag
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Great Job Young Man.Great Job.?
Bad Ass Biker
@Jim Loar: I love it!!!! Fighting windbag with windbag!
Ian William Saunders
Let me know I will come and join you with my set of Bagpipes !
Marc Bossa
Awesome!
MacAdvisor
As emotionally satisfying as that must have felt, I am not sure we should advocate drowning out voices of dissent. Some 45 years ago, our message could have been stifled by a bagpiper player with people applauding. The answer to hate speech is more speech, not activities to silence them.
Billysees
@Marc Bossa:
” Awesome! ”
It sure was.
@MacAdvisor:
” I am not sure we should advocate drowning out voices of dissent…The answer to hate speech is more speech, not activities to silence them. ”
Good point.
Captain Obvious
@MacAdvisor: That and living our lives peacefully and blissfully ignoring them actually does more damage to them and their “message” than getting involved and adding fuel to the fire.
I think people forget that before trolling because anonymous on the internet it was all done in real life where you could see facial expressions. There’s nothing a troll hates more than people happily(this is the important part) ignoring them.
When they don’t get their daily dose of attention they lose their minds.