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Feel like it's more accurate to describe the Proud Boys as "anticommunist" rather than "white supremacist" (these people idolize Pinochet after all.)
The issue with using that label is most Americans don't see anticommunist ideology as a type of unjustified, violent extremism. https://twitter.com/julito77/status/1311685753601228802
The issue with using that label is most Americans don't see anticommunist ideology as a type of unjustified, violent extremism. https://twitter.com/julito77/status/1311685753601228802
Obviously, there's tons of overlap between Proud Boy "Western Chauvinism" and white supremacy. but racism doesn't fully explain what these people are about.
this is what I was trying to get at - there's multiple right wing ideologies dovetailing here, and white supremacy is just a piece of it: https://twitter.com/snackvampire/status/1311699860458856448
they're also a militia that sees democracy as a threat https://www.wlrn.org/commentary/2020-10-01/trumps-caudillo-costume-is-complete-proud-boys-are-the-finishing-accessory
Good thread here on how anticommunism in the states feeds off of the racialization of leftist politics https://twitter.com/RoseCityAntifa/status/1311727251990421505?s=19
so I've thought about this more and it's a "both" rather than "either/or" thing, which I didn't make clear initially
