This is how white supremacy comes to your neighborhood.
1/3/25
Former white power leader turned peace activist, Christian Picciolini talks about how 30 years ago the white supremacist movement shifted from overt skin heads to a softer more palatable recruitment type. He explains that they “traded in their boots for suits in order to recruit on college campuses” (i.e., Turning Point USA - which has since gone even younger infiltrating now even High Schools - Pinckney & Hartland for example). He talks about how they specifically focused on getting jobs in law enforcement and changed their messaging to be easily relayed by the average American racist. He also talks about how they target children specifically.
Anyone with kids needs to be paying attention, this is a good introductory article on how they tactically normalize hate and extremism among our kids.
“This is how white supremacy comes to a home near you. It starts off subtly, with seemingly benign phrases about stereotypes being good and diversity being bad. Throw in a little talk of white heritage, sprinkle in some talk of being proud of your race. Before you know it, the talk escalates to things like “white genocide.”
Today’s brand of white supremacy doesn’t wear a white hood or a tattoo of a swastika (although they still exist.) No, today’s racists are more palatable. They are well spoken, intelligent. They dress nicely and are clean-cut. They speak reasonably and calmly and present their ideology with (false) numbers and (flawed) studies that back up their claims of racial superiority. They will look at you with doe eyes and say they simply want to preserve the heritage of white people in our country and blink innocently when they ask, “Why is racial pride so bad?” and earnestly insist that they mean no harm to minorities . . . Today’s brand of white supremacy is growing and more cunning in their methods. And their recruitment is ever-present. Their ranks include country boys with Confederate flags to YouTubers to comic book writers to our country’s leaders.
It doesn’t necessarily wear Jackboots and brown shirts and goose step down your tree-lined streets. No. This brand of white supremacy comes wrapped in jokes and pranks that appeal to a marketable demographic of 7- to 16-year-olds — a captive audience of impressionable minds and malleable ideology.
It is the goofy guy with the weird name on YouTube. Or it’s the former reality star. Or the politician-turned-news pundit. Or it’s your neighbor. Or your doctor.
It doesn’t shout in your face that it’s here to convince you that minorities are inferior. It doesn’t scream at you in vein-bulging rage. It is a comment in the middle of a video game stream. It is a tweet that seems innocuous at first glance. It is slowly planting seeds of words and phrases. Little by little, getting your brain used to hearing them. Until one day they hear a more forceful message that is tinged with hate. One that exploits a tragedy as proof of why you should be afraid of brown people.” Original post with article here.
