The Proud Boys had another rally in California over the weekend, and a telling moment was clipped and shared by Ron Filipkowski, a lawyer turned chronicler of the far-right. One speaker, armed with a bullhorn, pointed to a group of Proud Boys and declared, they “got some single real men over here looking for some housewives.” The men in the clip then joined together for a photo, flashing the “OK” symbol that has been appropriated as a way for white supremacists to signal each other while also — always — trolling the left.
In the space of a minute, it was a perfect illustration of the two-step process that the far-right has used for years now to recruit new followers: First, bait insecure men with fantasies of female submission. Once they’re in, recruit them to white supremacy.
The misogyny-to-white-supremacy pipeline has long been well-documented, but in the past year and a half — with the rise of QAnon and […]
The dark money of the Democrats gave us Joe Biden! Not because he was competent, which he clearly is not, but because they so hated Donald Trump. We have gone from bad to inconceivably worse. Thank you Imbecile Joe and the Democratic Party!
More right-wing and white supremacists sounding like black shirts and brown shirts of the late 1930s and early 1940s, witless caveman attitudes and wishes for female submissiveness included. The article is correct and concurs with my reading about the era: bolshevik / marxist was a code word for Jewish at that time. The 77,000 French Jews killed in the holocaust were originally referred to as bolsheviks. Alarming to hear those echoes again.