White supremacists invade D.C. bookstore, chant 'this land is our land' during race discussion

Over the weekend, a group of white nationalists invaded Politics and Prose, a bookstore in Northwest Washinton, D.C., to protest a book event and reading. For context, this bookstore is mere minutes away from Comet Ping Pong, the innocuous pizzeria where Pizzagate happened. The book, called Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America’s Heartland, was about race (particularly: whiteness), health, and politics in the U.S.

Jonathan Metzel, a sociology professor at Vanderbilt University and author of the book, was giving a talk at the bookstore when the group decided to descend, reciting bizarre statements like, “this land is our land,” as well as racist propaganda. As evidenced in the videos (which are embedded below), the group of roughly ten men stormed the event, stood in front of the author, and spoke directly to the audience. Someone even held a megaphone.

“You would have the white working class trade their homeland for handouts,” one of the men said. “But we, as nationalists and identitarians, can offer the workers of this country a homeland, their birthright, in addition to health care, good jobs and so forth.”

Audience members (and others in the bookstore) booed them until they exited, making the entire nightmare last between five and ten minutes.