Thread by @MsEntropy

Y’all want to get mad about something Neo Nazi related?

I GOT U FAM

Incoming thread on undocumented immigration, law enforcement infiltration, and good ole American white supremacy.

There’s a lot of good work on far right extremism / white supremacy, but there’s even more crappy work.

That results from willful amnesia, in part - and rigid thinking (mode on that later).

But even more? From fear of confronting just how deep and systemic the rot.

A HUGE problem with the studying the far right is: all too often, conventional wisdom and widely held stereotypes unconsciously inform the opinion of experts.

In turn, experts’ biases reinforce (dangerously) incorrect assumed ‘truths’ about white supremacy.

Like the South.

The vast majority of the American public stereotypes the South as uniformly racist, backwards, and stuck in the past — the Confederacy’s quintessential ‘Klan Land.’

It *seems* sensible because, among other things, the legacy of Reconstruction and civil rights.

But it’s wrong.

(I’m working on a big project about this right now, btw)

People are way too surprised to hear the KKK has a history in Southern California. But guess what else?

SoCal is actually a birthplace of the modern era’s white supremacist movement - from Rockwell’s ANP to Atomwaffen.

The conventional wisdom that white supremacist organizational violence is a product of the American South is wrong — and, it’s really racist.

It erases the long Black history of social justice mobilization.

And it whitewashes outsiders’ racism and masks the problem’s depth.

A few things explain Southern California’s enormous role on the foundation of the modern white supremacist movement. Among others, there’s immigration, of course.

Another? The military.

Yes, San Diego - I’m talking to you, specifically.

Please don’t ask me why ‘experts’ on the far right, Neo Nazis, and white supremacy never address about what I’m getting ready to tell you - I wish I knew.

I assume most don’t know, because of the conventional approaches in the scholarly field.

Fear also, maybe.

You know I do a lot of work on white supremacists infiltration of the military / law enforcement.

What you don’t know (and don’t want to) is how vicious the pushback is.

Lot of people claim it stopped ‘with the KKK, in the South.’

Wrong.

tcf.org/content/commen…

See, the legacy of the KKK is a really convenient ‘memory eraser’ for people.

You’ve heard of Camp Pendleton, right? The military base in San Diego, supposedly leftie haven of California?

You ever heard of the Klan group based there...

... in 1976?

Surely you’ve all heard about allegations of racism at LAPD in the wake of the Rodney King riots.

But you ever hear about LA’s gang problem? No, not the Bloods and the Crips.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.

So many since the 1970s I need a whole other Tweet.

Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department - Neo Nazi gangs based out of LASD since 1971 (abridged):

- Lynwood Vikings
- Little Devils
- The Jump Out Boys
- 2000 Boys
- Hats
- Grim Reapers
- The Regulators
- 3000 Boys
- And more.

At LASD alone.

“Oh, but Ms. Entropy - that was the 1970s - 2010s or something. We elected Obama!”

Well, then, explain for me...

- 2020, The Executioners.

Another Neo Nazi gang of law enforcement officers.
Also at LASD.
Neo Nazi tattoos, graffiti at the station and all.

https://twitter.com/msentropy/status/1368721238718222338

Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department hosted, for over half a century, gangs of Neo Nazi (not just ‘racist’) law enforcement officers.

Over 50 years of recent (LAST YEAR) history, in infamously Blue California.

Tell me again: ‘Police infiltration was KKK and ended in the South.’

Those KKK and Neo Nazi military and law enforcement infiltrerions in San Diego and LA are barely even history. They’re that recent.

They’re just the tip of the organized white supremacist SoCal iceberg.

And how many of you ever heard of them?

I have to hop back off and get these articles finished but before I go:

I want to talk a little bit about Southern California, the militia movement, and immigration debates.

It’s inextricably linked to what I told you above.

People love to talk about the patriot movement / militia movement as if it’s readily and clearly distinguishable from the white supremacist movement.

Wrong.
Dangerously wrong.

Myopia and amnesia help no one - except the movement.

For some inexplicable reason, public perception is that volunteer border patrols to curb immigration in SoCal started in 2004 (Minutemen Project - founded by a Neo Nazi) or 2004 (Minutemen Civil Defense Corps).

Wrong again.

Try the KKK - in the 1970s.

Not just any iteration of the KKK, mind you.

This was David Duke’s KKK.

And Tom Metzger’s.

David Duke and Tom Metzger later “rebranded” - multiple times, trying to shed their Neo Nazi and KKK legacies.

They’re very much the ideological and stylistic fathers of Richard Spencer’s alt-right in this respect.

And guess what?

Here’s Tom Metzger in a 1979 deposition — admitting his KKK infiltrated INS and the Border Patrol.

Operating ‘volunteer’ immigration border watches with white supremacist public officials’ active support and assistance.

I have to go now, but I’m working on a book and broader project about this now. For a sneak preview:

If you want to understand the infiltration, mainstreaming, and (in fact) the entire modern white supremacist movement, here’s the key:

Southern California and Tom Metzger.

(PS - every time I use ‘infiltration,’ people get mad and assume I’m blind to the fundamentally racist, white supremacist roots of American policing / ignorant of slave patrols.

Spoiler: I’m not.

I use “infiltrate” because that’s literally what Metzger called his strategy.)

PPS

Mansplainers who watched American X once:
I will not be taking your comments at this time.

Everyone else:
Goodnight!