Thread by @MsEntropy

Um.

Those pro-Rittenhouse stickers don’t just imply racism because someone put them over Ida B. Wells’ face.

The circular halo-like emblem is called a sonnenrad (black sun), and it’s an explicitly Nazi emblem.

(cont.)

The sonnenrad appears in a lot of contemporary Neo-Nazi and white supremacist propaganda.

The perpetrator of the Christchurch massacre used one as the cover for his manifesto, ‘White Genocide.’

And that’s not all.

The black sun is used by younger generations of Neo-Nazis because it’s less ‘obvious’ than a swastika.

At least, to those who aren’t familiar.

The sonnenrad has a long history; here’s a brief overview:

theguardian.com/world/2020/nov…

Oh, don’t worry — I’m getting there.

White supremacists have a culture of “martyrs” — but they also elevate violent attackers to the level of saints.

Case in point:

I’ve received numerous death threats that reference “Saint Tarrant” — the Christchurch perpetrator, who used the sonnenrad on his manifesto.

In fact, the are entire Telegram channels dedicated to “Saint Calendars” — celebrating a violent perpetrator on the attack anniversary.

Often, they use the sonnenrad as a halo.

There are also Neo-Nazi Telegram channels dedicated to white supremacist portraits of the “saints.”

Here’s Brenton Tarrant, the Christchurch massacre perpetrator — and his manifesto cover.

You can see the sonnenrad clearly on each.

Neo-Nazi artists often use the sonnenrad halo for historical figures like Hitler and prominent SS members.

Sonnenrad halos are also, however, applied to living “saints.”

Here you see Breivik, the Unabomber Kacynski, and Dylann Roof — in addition to Timothy McVeigh.

Those Rittenhouse stickers may be getting attention now, but the sonnenrad “Saint” depiction isn’t.

People need to get up to speed with the sonnenrad emblem — how it’s used, and why, as well as:

its use to *launder* Neo-Nazi and white supremacist messages as ‘conservative.’

For those asking, yes — I will write an in-depth article on the sonnenrad “Saint” halos (I already have a lot written on this, but I’ll update and publish it in response to the Rittenhouse stickers).

For now, however, here’s the thread form:

PS:

1) Logging off for now, but as always, I will respond to as many of your questions as I can later on.

2) For the (inevitable) angry conservatives, nowhere in this thread do I say or imply “Rittenhouse is a white supremacist.” I’m stating the obvious here: they claim him.

Like I said — nothing in the thread above even implies Rittenhouse is a Neo-Nazi.

I identified a Neo-Nazi symbol that Neo-Nazis use to *claim* Rittenhouse.

This much knee jerk hostility indicates: 1) you’ve fallen for their laundering op, *or* 2) you’re a bad actor.

Period.

Sigh.

I’m going to bed.

Scroll up for an entire thread of… proof.

Just to be clear:

- We aren’t talking about the OK sign.
- We’re talking about the “circular halo-like emblem called a sonnenrad.”
- We aren’t talking about Rittenhouse.
- We are talking about people who made Rittenhouse stickers.

I know this is difficult.

If you’re new to my timeline, and are impressed by the level of Can’t Read And Crazy in my @‘s here:

Just WAIT until someone asks me to explain Christian Identity Movement — an explicitly white supremacist theology (literally)!

If you’d like to learn more about the sonnenrad (black sun) and Neo-Nazi iconography, this book is worth your time:

amazon.com/Black-Sun-Esot…

Adding a few postscripts about the stickers’ origins (1):

Postscript 2 on the origins of the Kyle Rittenhouse stickers with the Neo-Nazi sonnenrad (black sub):

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