Posted on Jun 20, 2022
Far right groups shift focus to LBGTQ events. Their hateful aim hasn't changed
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Two incidents in which far-right extremists targeted LGBTQ events earlier this month marked what appeared to be a shift in focus for white supremacist activists.
A group of men with ties to the white nationalist Patriot Front was arrested outside a Pride event in Coeur D'Alene, Idaho. The same day, alleged members of the far-right Proud Boys crashed a children's drag queen storytelling event and shouted homophobic and transphobic slurs, in what Alameda, Calif., sheriffs are now investigating as a possible hate crime.
Earlier iterations of Patriot Front and the Proud Boys were among the neo-Nazi factions who sought to intimidate the Charlottesville, Va., community at the "Unite the Right" rally in 2017.
So, why would members of a white supremacist group — many of whom, in the case of the Idaho event, had traveled from other states — choose to target a local Pride event?
Extremism researchers say the far-right activists are seizing on an opportunity of heightened attention around cultures that they have always seen as a threat to their hateful interests. And the particular events the extremists chose to target that Saturday had in recent weeks drawn negative attention among the far-right online networks that fuel their hate activism.
Two incidents in which far-right extremists targeted LGBTQ events earlier this month marked what appeared to be a shift in focus for white supremacist activists.
A group of men with ties to the white nationalist Patriot Front was arrested outside a Pride event in Coeur D'Alene, Idaho. The same day, alleged members of the far-right Proud Boys crashed a children's drag queen storytelling event and shouted homophobic and transphobic slurs, in what Alameda, Calif., sheriffs are now investigating as a possible hate crime.
Earlier iterations of Patriot Front and the Proud Boys were among the neo-Nazi factions who sought to intimidate the Charlottesville, Va., community at the "Unite the Right" rally in 2017.
So, why would members of a white supremacist group — many of whom, in the case of the Idaho event, had traveled from other states — choose to target a local Pride event?
Extremism researchers say the far-right activists are seizing on an opportunity of heightened attention around cultures that they have always seen as a threat to their hateful interests. And the particular events the extremists chose to target that Saturday had in recent weeks drawn negative attention among the far-right online networks that fuel their hate activism.
Far right groups shift focus to LBGTQ events. Their hateful aim hasn't changed
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1.) https://www.instagram.com/tv/CfCclViAA1b/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
2.) The Threat from the inside :
https://youtu.be/YS-_mapaDhk
******
3.) https://youtu.be/wQsBFyncbrI
No Political Affiliation
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PO1 William "Chip" Nagel
..."A hate group's bid to refresh its brand
As for the Proud Boys, the disruption at the Alameda County story hour was a return to the group's violent street activism from a year ago, IREHR's Burghart said, when they engaged in a wave of similar anti-LGBTQ disruption efforts.
After a series of high-profile arrests of the group's members, he said, the latest disruption is the Proud Boy's attempt to change its optics after its role in the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Historian Belew said it's easy to get caught up in the discrete missions and messages various far-right groups have espoused.
"Academics and journalists have spent too much time on the differences between these groups ... when actually all of these groups are part of the same social movement, the same groundswell of activity on the far right," she said."
..."A hate group's bid to refresh its brand
As for the Proud Boys, the disruption at the Alameda County story hour was a return to the group's violent street activism from a year ago, IREHR's Burghart said, when they engaged in a wave of similar anti-LGBTQ disruption efforts.
After a series of high-profile arrests of the group's members, he said, the latest disruption is the Proud Boy's attempt to change its optics after its role in the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Historian Belew said it's easy to get caught up in the discrete missions and messages various far-right groups have espoused.
"Academics and journalists have spent too much time on the differences between these groups ... when actually all of these groups are part of the same social movement, the same groundswell of activity on the far right," she said."
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I'm expecting it here since the Wal-Mart shooting and few incidents since.
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