The recent appearance of “White Lives Matter” propaganda in Wilmot Township is troubling, and while the summary of white power action in this article is useful, it fails to address that these posters are stoking what they always intended to among residents: fear.
1/ https://twitter.com/WR_Record/status/1385551541554368512
The posters, which lack a location for the coming WLM rally, appear to have come from the national WLM chat. Attendance was low at many of the originally planned events, but despite widespread infiltration by antifascists, organizers are trying again.
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Regardless of attendance at any upcoming WLM events, the consistent presence of white power propaganda in the region is more than enough reason for concern. Downplaying posters meant to intimidate people of colour is exactly the response that lets these movements flourish.
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Regardless of who or how many people put the posters up, this is a real and present manifestation of white supremacy resurfacing in a community that has shown a pattern of being home to this material. This is a call to combat this menace, not downplay it.
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Despite claims to be striving for equality, WLM groups feature posts of overt racism, antisemitism & of course, fondness for Adolf Hitler. White Lives Matter is just another in a long history of cases of neo-Nazis co-opting the language of social justice for their own ends
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