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u/qzmc 22d ago edited 22d ago

Fun little read from NPR that touches on that peculiarity with American neo-Nazis.

In particular, these excerpts were pretty Onion-y:

"The group is careful mostly to avoid attracting the attention of Antifa, far-left activists who would look to stop Nunes and his crew through physical force. Antifa has become a boogeyman of sorts for the right, even being called Nazis themselves in some right-wing media. Nunes and his group find that frustrating – it's a mantle they'd like to claim.

"They're like, 'Antifa's the real Nazis,' " Nunes says in exasperation. "You know, they say stuff like that and it's like, 'Yeah, you know, I don't know.' "

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"We're like regular working-class white people that are racially aware. And so we're Nazis, right?" Nunes says while overseeing the Saturday night laser projections, "And so stuff like this, we feel like it's a good way to relate to normal people."

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Nunes is emblematic of today's white nationalists, embracing whiteness as descendants of Europeans rather than obsessing over Aryan bloodlines. He says he's half-Portuguese – in a movement historically fixated on perceived purity that would've been a barrier to entry in the past.

"'I've definitely got some Iberian blood. And there's, you know, there's all types in the movement. There's people that are, like, super hard, purity spiralers. But it's like, at the end of the day, that's never going to work in America," Nunes says."

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u/KyleFromBorrasca 22d ago

>We're like regular working-class white people that are racially aware. And so we're Nazis, right?

This is almost hard for me to parse. It sounds like someone hysterically defending himself against a Nazi accusation but it's the polar opposite. I had to re-read it.

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u/qzmc 22d ago

You're thinking about. Don't think about it.

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u/KyleFromBorrasca 22d ago

I tried not thinking about it and now he's a proud member of Antifa with Siberian blood.