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Senior Research Fellow, ADL Center on Extremism. Historian, long-time expert on right-wing extremism. Long-lost scion of Sidney Greenstreet. My own views only.

Mar 24, 2022, 8 tweets

One of the unusual aspects of studying extremists is that you fairly regularly get exposed to extremist poetry--from white supremacists to militia groups, they've all got the time to rhyme.

I don't specifically store them, but here are a couple of examples.

David Lane was a member of The Order, a white supremacist terrorist group and he died in prison. He is the person who coined the so-called "Fourteen Words" slogan. Apologies for the font.

This long poem is from a member of the Aryan Circle, a large and dangerous Texas-based prison gang. Given the refrain, this may be a song, sung to the tune of "A Country Boy Can Survive," but I haven't tried to sing it.

I believe a Canadian white supremacist wrote this one:

This one is usually credited to the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas, though I've seen versions without the word "Texas" in them.

Here's an ancient one--an original Ku Klux Klan poem from North Carolina in 1868.

This one--from the website Stormfront--is cribbed from "Away in a Manger."

The overwhelming majority of white supremacist poetry I've seen uses either an AABBCC rhyme scheme or an ABCB rhyme scheme.

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