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"On a recent overcast afternoon in Orlando, Florida, 10 neo-Nazis gathered
outside the entrance to Disney World.
Some wore skull masks, and their T-shirts were emblazoned with the letters
OBS—Order of the Black Sun—the name of their group. One held a sign containing
names of convicted white supremacist mass murderers, including Dylann Roof and
Anders Breivik, along with the words “Let My People Go.” Others flew swastika
flags, and one person waved a large flag saying “DESANTIS 2024.”
That, somehow, was just one of the neo-Nazi demonstrations that took place in
Orlando that day. About 25 miles away, in the suburb Altamonte Springs, members
of the groups Blood Tribe and Goyim Defense League, dressed in red and black,
marched while chanting “We Are Everywhere.”
The rally was exactly one week after a neo-Nazi, armed with an AR-15 style
rifle, walked into a Dollar General store just two hours north and shot and
killed three Black people before turning the gun on himself. All over his
weapon, written in white marker, were neo-Nazi symbols and slogans—many of the
very same that were paraded outside Disney World seven days later.
The brazen, unapologetic hate that was on display in Orlando is part of a
larger trend that suggests hardcore neo-Nazi groups after years of operating
behind closed doors are feeling newly emboldened to appear in public.
VICE News created a database of demonstrations involving members of hardline
neo-Nazi groups and identified nearly two dozen such events in 2023 so
far—already outpacing the number of events we logged from all of last year.
Even more striking, we logged a fraction of public demonstrations by hardore
Nazi groups in 2021 and 2020 compared to those in 2022."
Via Diane A.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
