At the protests that have broken out across the country after George Floyd鈥檚 death at the hands of Minneapolis police officers, so-called boogaloo bois have been a conspicuous presence. Members of the overwhelmingly white online subculture have shown up to protests heavily armed and clad in Hawaiian shirts 鈥� a reference to the 鈥渂ig luau,鈥� an adaptation of the word 鈥渂oogaloo.鈥�
Protests against state-imposed stay-at-home orders have exploded across the country and attracted a wide array of right-wing supporters, including the Proud Boys.
Far-right extremists believe the intense uncertainty surrounding the outbreak of COVID-19 will aid their ability to recruit new members into their movement.
The domestic terror incident this past weekend in El Paso has energized the growing 鈥渁ccelerationist鈥� bloc of the white power movement, which argues violence is the only way to achieve its goal of creating a white, non-Jewish ethnostate.
Transphobic rhetoric, some of it violent, appears to be increasing among white nationalists and neo-Nazis as the fight for transgender rights gains visibility and public support.
In early April, Congress held its first hearing on white nationalism since the deadly 2017 鈥淯nite the Right鈥� rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. What was supposed to be an opportunity to address the rising threat of far-right extremism was, at certain points, who insisted the real threat came from the left.
Last weekend was marked by on a congregation. Worshippers at a synagogue in Poway, California, were celebrating the last day of Passover when a gunman, apparently influenced by online white supremacist propaganda, opened fire.
Last Friday, Proud Boys leader Gavin McInnes riled up a crowd of supporters at New York City鈥檚 Metropolitan Republican Club with what he played off as a comedy routine: the commemoration and celebration of the 1960 televised assassination of a socialist.
The idea that black people are wantonly attacking white people in some sort of quiet race war is an untruthful and damaging narrative with a very long history in America.聽
What brings someone into the alt-right ecosystem?
