The people of Twitter trolled CNN pretty hard last month, and for very good reason: the cable news giant had recently promoted its story on 12 friends who met on a beach in Maine to write the word “RESIST” in huge capital letters in the sand and … well, that’s it.
Twelve people worked together to spell "RESIST" in huge letters on a beach in Maine https://t.co/vES1NR4tnz pic.twitter.com/l7qKYL78c9
— CNN (@CNN) January 31, 2017
We’ll leave it to historians to one day track the connection between that brave waterfront activity and Trump’s inevitable impeachment or resignation, but others aren’t waiting to make their own contribution to the resistance.
A large group of white people in San Francisco took beach-based protesting to new levels Saturday by … well, we’ll let the photos tell their astonishing story.
We are San Francisco Resist on Ocean Beach #resist #oceanbeach # #SanFrancisco pic.twitter.com/dasJe7pFRM
— Vassil Mladjov ? (@vassko) February 11, 2017
Resist live from Ocean Beach in San Francisco #resist #san Francisco pic.twitter.com/TCnq9e9dhU
— Vassil Mladjov ? (@vassko) February 11, 2017
Check it out … so many people showed up at the beach on Saturday they had enough left over to underline the word and form multiple exclamation points!!
Happening now @ocean beach #resisttrump pic.twitter.com/eJbSEnteTm
— Jay Haines (@JayHainesSF) February 11, 2017
Aerial shot of the protest in San Francisco today. #RESIST!! pic.twitter.com/3j5MiNtfA7
— SeriouslyUS? (@USseriously) February 11, 2017
We have a suspicion CNN might pass on this one, but someone from BuzzFeed is ON IT.
San Franciscans spelled out RESIST on Ocean Beach to protest Donald Trump (? by @vassko and @JayHainesSF) pic.twitter.com/GyU6XeZTbF
— Blake Montgomery ? (@blakersdozen) February 11, 2017
https://twitter.com/Rschrim/status/830522946800250880
@GeorgeTakei @vassko @JayHainesSF what exactly are they resisting?
— Ash (@adotson12) February 11, 2017
One thing they’re not resisting — their beach privilege. Don’t pretend to be woke, San Franciscans, until you’re brave enough to look at yourselves and admit that until every American has warm sand in which to protest, there is no justice.
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