The Boogaloo: when does a meme become a terrorist movement?
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The Boogaloo: when does a meme become a terrorist movement?
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#2Rarely do you see a "writer" so far detached from reality. Recommended read, just to see what that looks like.
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#3I keep thinking of Maniac Magee and reading it as a child and thinking then that Jerry Spinelli was describing ancient history that we’d never see again.
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#4Rarely do you see a "writer" so far detached from reality. Recommended read, just to see what that looks like.
Care to elaborate? This is the first time I hear about the "boogaloo" thing
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#5Rarely do you see a "writer" so far detached from reality. Recommended read, just to see what that looks like.
Care to elaborate? This is the first time I hear about the "boogaloo" thing
Robert Evans and Jason Wilson have a pretty good overview here: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2020/05/27/the-boogaloo-move...
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#6This article, written from the perspective of someone who clearly "gets up close" with that particular scene, is far more interesting:
https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2020/05/27/the-boogaloo-move...
TL;DR: It's about as coherent as you would imagine for something that self-organized on 4chan.
Re: The Boogaloo: when does a meme become a terrorist movement?
#7This article, written from the perspective of someone who clearly "gets up close" with that particular scene, is far more interesting: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2020/05/27/the-boogaloo-move... TL;DR: It's about as coherent as you would imagine for something that self-organized on 4chan.
Also see:
The Meme-Fueled Rise of a Dangerous, Far-Right Militia[1] and The Boogaloo Tipping Point[2].
[1] - https://www.wired.com/story/boogaloo-movement-protests
[2] - https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/07/ameri...
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#8Would someone please explain the difference between these "terrorists" and the "freedom fighters" the U.S. sponsors around the world?
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#10It’s really unfortunate to see such an unchallenged application of the label “libertarian” here. Put aside your own feelings for a moment.
Highlighting any connection between libertarianism with the alt-right, white supremacy, or anti-government militias seems as disingenuous as the superficial connection between atheism and fascist communism.
In either case, does the ideology overlap in convenient areas (to the negative ideologies), yes, probably. It’s easier to command absolute fealty of the state without god in the way. It’s easier to preach radical, violent white supremacist anarcho-capitalism with the state out of the picture. But does libertarianism espouse, promote, or a natural evolution that ends in The Boogaloo? Absolutely not, and it’s ridiculous for a journalist not to ask and answer those questions.