The Independent asked me to write about my experience as “Red Bike Guy” heckling fascists in DC.
I was glad to share my story. I’ve been delighted at the positive response that I’ve received. Humor is a really good way to respond to extremists since it undermines their seriousness and makes them out to be a joke – which is what they are, these young men in khakis and plastic shields longing for a mythical American past that never existed.
It’s also important to confront them. Early in the Trump years, I read On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder and it shaped my thinking on how to resist the right-wing. It says to stand up and defend democracy. Groups like the Patriot Front march in places like DC to create the illusion that they are powerful and accepted; I wanted them to know that everyone hated them.
Read more about my Red Bike Guy experience in I’m the lone cyclist who faced down a white supremacist march. Here’s how to do it published in The Independent.
“I am Red Bike Guy.”
If you want to know more about my story, check out my memoir, HOW I BECOME RED BIKE GUY.
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