It's been a while since I did a hate symbols thread, so here is a quick one, with some interesting images I've collected over the years.
We'll start with something you don't see much anymore (this is from 2005): a Ku Klux Klan rally. Or at least the location of one.
I was able to obtain many images because white supremacists like to pose for the camera as much as the next person. Here we see a Nazi flag and, on the wall, a Celtic Cross. I think a lot of the other writing on the wall may just be metal band names.
This person is just covered in images, including two Iron Crosses with swastikas, a Nazi eagle inside a swastika, another swastika for good measure, and a triskele. Oh, and he tattooed SS insignia tabs on his neck as if he were wearing a uniform.
It's not too common to have other images inside a swastika like the above eagle, but here's another example, with a Hitler image inside the swastika.
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"Election fraud challenge ends in lawsuit against MyPillow CEO"
I can think of two similar extremist-related cases in the past. One was when tax protester Irwin Schiff offered a $100,000 reward to anyone who could prove that the Internal Revenue Code required people to file tax returns. Someone did (see below) but a law.justia.com/cases/federal/…
judge rejected it on a (pretty dubious) technicality.
The other case was when the Institute for Historical Review, a holocaust denial group, offered a $50,000 reward to anyone who could prove Jews were killed in the Holocaust. An angry Holocaust survivor, Mel Mermelstein,
I'd like to share the obituary of a man I never met. Years ago, when I was about to graduate from college, I had a thought, and asked my mom: "Am I the first person to graduate from college on my dad's side of the family?" I come from a long line of coal
miners, brewery workers, and butchers. My mom thought for a second and said, "No. Your cousin Myron is a teacher, so he must have graduated from college." And indeed he did, 20 years earlier, in 1968. My first reaction was, "Damn, I'm not the first." My second reaction was not
any better: "Myron? He was named Myron?" I mean, I got bullied for just being named Pitcavage, so imagine what being named Myron Pitcavage would be like. But my *third* thought was, "You know, his graduating from college back then is really impressive, coming from the family
I don't think the author proves his point. The "criticism" basically appeared elsewhere in the transcript, but was moved to a place in the interview where it more clearly identified MX.
"MLK’s famous criticism of Malcolm X was a ‘fraud,’ author finds"
If the sentence appeared nowhere in the transcript, there would be a better case, although even then one could not be sure. Having given hundreds of interviews over the years, I know that often an initial interview is followed up by additional questions or clarifications later.
It is entirely possible that subsequent conversations between Haley and King resulted in the moving of that sentence to a place where it would be more clear. That sort of thing often happens. Whether it should is a different issue, but it does. Sometimes an interviewee may even
Since I'm quoted and paraphrased here, I feel I need to make clear what my points actually were. In talking about neo-Nazis (among those in the past who would most publicly
"It’s Hitler’s birthday. Here’s why so few antisemites are celebrating"
celebrate Hitler), I described the decline of once-prominent public-facing neo-Nazi groups, including the National Alliance, Aryan Nations, and the NSM, and the rise of less public, more underground accelerationist neo-Nazi groups like Atomwaffen, the Base, Rapekrieg, etc.,
which are far less public-facing. I also discussed the "optics" debate within white supremacy, where those in favor of public-facing "hearts & minds" strategies have reasons for trying to spread antisemitism invoking, say, Kanye, rather than Hitler (not a popular guy).
The sovereign movement has a long history in Utah. In the 1980s, one of the most important early sovereign citizen gurus, Walt Mann III, was a Utahn. Other
"Is the sovereign citizen movement finding a home inside the Utah GOP?"
more recent influential gurus like Winston Shrout have also had Utah ties.
This story is about a women who filed a sovereign citizen document declaring a $5 million lien on her own property.
Historically, that tactic emerged in the 1980s during the farm crisis, when sovereign
gurus told desperate farmers that if they placed a lien on their own property it would protect it from foreclosure. The argument was that the "sweat equity" put into the property by the farmer had to be paid back to the farmer before any other interest in the property (like a
This is an antisemitic communist conspiracy pamphlet written by Bud Farrell, but the reason I show it here is to mention the pamphlet's publisher, Colonel Gordon "Jack" Mohr, who was a prominent second-tier right-wing extremist for many decades.
Born in 1916, Mohr was a career army officer who fought in WW2 and Korea. He later became a Baptist preacher and joined the John Birch Society, but became too extreme for both after he converted to Christian Identity, the racist and antisemitic religious sect.
Mohr was active in the Christian Patriots Defense League and as a writer and publisher of far right antisemitic propaganda. He was a nasty guy. But he's also a good example of a phenomenon that was noticeable in the white supremacist movement from the late 1940s to the 1990s.