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The Boogaloo Movement Is Not What You Think
May 27, 2020By Robert Evans and Jason Wilson
On May 26th, crowds gathered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to protest the death of 46-year-old George Floyd at the hands of the citys police department. Floyd was black. Many of the protesters were people of color.
The department fired four policemen that same day, after footage emerged appearing to show Floyd being strangled by a white officer; the video shows him placing his knee on Floyd, cutting off his air supply. Firing these officers was not enough to defuse anger in the city where less than four years previously, a police officer shot a black man, Philando Castile, dead at a traffic stop after Castile informed him he had a legally purchased firearm.
On the internet, meanwhile, a largely white, and far right movement publicly contended over what risks its members should take to support a black man killed by police.
On the Facebook page, Big Igloo Bois, which at the time of writing had 30,637 followers, an administrator wrote of the protests, If there was ever a time for bois to stand in solidarity with ALL free men and women in this country, it is now.
They added, This is not a race issue. For far too long we have allowed them to murder us in our homes, and in the streets. We need to stand with the people of Minneapolis. We need to support them in this protest against a system that allows police brutality to go unchecked.
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The Boogaloo Movement Is Not What You Think (Original Post)
Judi Lynn
May 2020
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The Boogaloo Movement Is exactly what we think: Libertarians waiting for a race war.
marble falls
May 2020
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marble falls
(57,014 posts)1. The Boogaloo Movement Is exactly what we think: Libertarians waiting for a race war.
https://www.adl.org/blog/the-boogaloo-extremists-new-slang-term-for-a-coming-civil-war
The Boogaloo: Extremists New Slang Term for A Coming Civil War
November 26, 2019
boogaloo cover adl
Its not often an old joke evolves into a catchphrase for mass violence, but thats just whats happened this past year when a variety of extremist and fringe movements and subcultures adopted the word boogaloo as shorthand for a future civil war.
From militia groups to white supremacists, extremists on a range of online platforms talk aboutand sometimes even anticipatethe boogaloo. The rise of boogaloo, and its casual acceptance of future mass violence, is disturbing. Among some extremists, it may even signify an increased willingness to engage in violence.
pepe boogaloo
Boogaloo has its roots in decades of jokes about an old movie: the 1984 breakdancing film Breakin 2: Electric Boogaloo. Almost from the moment of the movies release, people exploited the format of the movies title for humorous purposes, replacing Breakin with some other film, event or person of their choice.
These jokes included Civil War 2: Electric Boogaloo references, made every so often by gamers and history buffs, among others. But its most recent, and most serious, iteration caught on and spread very quickly. Though some still use the phrase as a joke, an increasing number of people employ it with serious intent.
Gun Rights Activists Threaten Violence
This new usage seems to have started with gun rights activists intimating or promising violence if the government were to come for their guns. The full phrase has been used this way before; for example, in June 2018 someone started a Reddit thread titled Civil War 2: Electric Boogaloo featuring a 2012 Facebook post by Gavin Newsom, then Californias lieutenant governor, telling the National Rifle Association, we ARE coming for your guns. The implication made by the poster was clearthat any such effort would result in civil war.
In 2019, usage spread widely among pro-gun activists on a variety of online platforms, so much so that it was quickly pared down simply to boogaloo or the boogaloo. In August, a Twitter user warned others to buy whatever guns and ammo they wanted now, because soon the ability to do so would be severely curtailed, adding, Button up for the #boogaloo. Now. That same month someone else tweeted the hashtag #boogaloo, warning about 100 million active shooter situations when the cops try to do nationwide gun confiscations.
A range of boogaloo-related phrases also emerged this year, as the term became more popular, including: showing up for the boogaloo, when the boogaloo hits, being boogaloo ready and bring on the boogaloo. Boogaloo-related hashtags have surfaced, including #boogaloo2020, #BigIgloo (igloo-related images are now also used as boogaloo references), #boojahideen, and #boogaloobois.
big igloo
Some people predicted that proposed red flag laws (laws allowing the temporary seizing of firearms from individuals deemed to present a danger to themselves or others) would bring on the boogaloo. Boogaloo-related hashtags now often appear along firearm-related tags, such as #2a, #gunrights, and #ShallNotBeInfringed. Many boogaloo references are directed against the alphabet boys or alphabet gang federal agencies like the FBI and ATF which people assume would assist in any gun confiscations.
In September, then-presidential hopeful Beto ORourke called for a mandatory buyback program for assault weapons, sparking a rash of boogaloo references. You realize your gun confiscation plan would set off the boogaloo, right? one person asked ORourke on Twitter in October. Do you know that you will start a boogaloo? demanded another. Once Beto starts taking the guns away, the boogaloo will start, asserted a third.
boogaloo hoodie
The boogaloo meme soon spread from angry gun-rights activists to the militia movement and survivalists. The Telegram channel Boogaloo: How to Survive claims to show how to survive in a post society world through understanding the psychology of violence, attaining resources, and organizing to accomplish post society tasks. It currently has more than 1,700 members. A militia movement-related website now sells a Boogaloo 2020 t-shirtand it is hardly alone. Now one can buy boogaloo-related clothing and accessories from a variety of online marketplaces, including Amazon. Items include patches, pins and apparel (such as Big Igloo t-shirts).
The boogaloo meme has spread to other movements with anti-government beliefs, primarily minarchists and anarcho-capitalists, which are essentially conservative alternatives to anarchism, as well as a few apparent anarchists. Use of the term by adherents of these philosophies often refers to violence against the state and its institutions, especially law enforcement.
White Supremacists Take Up the Term
White supremacists have also adopted the boogaloo concept. A particularly disturbing boogaloo t-shirt (currently available online) features the word boogaloo under a photograph of John Earnest, the white supremacist who opened fire at a synagogue in Poway, California, in April 2019, killing one person.
Whereas the militia movement, radical gun rights activists typically promote the boogaloo as a war against the government or liberals, white supremacists conceive of the boogaloo as a race war or a white revolution. Some promote boogaloo-related phrases alongside hashtags such as #dotr or #DayOfTheRope, both of which are references to neo-Nazi William Pierces The Turner Diaries, a novelized blueprint for a white revolution.
Accelerationist white supremacists are particularly apt to use boogaloo they seek the violent collapse of modern society in order to bring about a new, white-dominated world. Among them is Paul Nehlen, who gained notoriety by running for U.S. Congress in Wisconsin in 2016 and 2018. After the Poway synagogue shooting, Nehlen embraced both accelerationism and the term boogaloo and has even posted photos of himself wearing the John Earnest/boogaloo shirt.
nehlen piano
In August, the accelerationist Terrorwave Refined Telegram channel posted the following call to arms:
If they are ever dumb enough to come for your guns, let the executive, legislative, and judicial workers and their kike handlers know that they had better confiscate all the manure and trucks in America because the first places youll visit will be the courthouses, legislatures, barracks, and next, their personal homes, their parents [sic] homes, their kids [sic] homes and it will truly be the beginning of the White Mans Boogaloo.
The reference to manure and trucks is likely an allusion to Timothy McVeighs use of an ammonium nitrate truck bomb to destroy the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995.
The white supremacist (and accelerationist) group Feuerkrieg Division recently posted a song about a race-war boogaloo to its official Telegram channel. A sampling of the lyrics makes its thrust clear:
Do the Boogaloo!
Kill the kikes, and save the whites
Come on, its time to go!
Do the Boogaloo!
Plug a pig, and then a Yid
Lets do the Boogaloo, all together now!
Care must be taken when evaluating boogaloo-as-civil-war references, as some peopleeven those in extremist movementsstill use the phrase jokingly, or to mock some of the more fanatical or gung-ho adherents of their own movement.
The Boogaloo: Extremists New Slang Term for A Coming Civil War
November 26, 2019
boogaloo cover adl
Its not often an old joke evolves into a catchphrase for mass violence, but thats just whats happened this past year when a variety of extremist and fringe movements and subcultures adopted the word boogaloo as shorthand for a future civil war.
From militia groups to white supremacists, extremists on a range of online platforms talk aboutand sometimes even anticipatethe boogaloo. The rise of boogaloo, and its casual acceptance of future mass violence, is disturbing. Among some extremists, it may even signify an increased willingness to engage in violence.
pepe boogaloo
Boogaloo has its roots in decades of jokes about an old movie: the 1984 breakdancing film Breakin 2: Electric Boogaloo. Almost from the moment of the movies release, people exploited the format of the movies title for humorous purposes, replacing Breakin with some other film, event or person of their choice.
These jokes included Civil War 2: Electric Boogaloo references, made every so often by gamers and history buffs, among others. But its most recent, and most serious, iteration caught on and spread very quickly. Though some still use the phrase as a joke, an increasing number of people employ it with serious intent.
Gun Rights Activists Threaten Violence
This new usage seems to have started with gun rights activists intimating or promising violence if the government were to come for their guns. The full phrase has been used this way before; for example, in June 2018 someone started a Reddit thread titled Civil War 2: Electric Boogaloo featuring a 2012 Facebook post by Gavin Newsom, then Californias lieutenant governor, telling the National Rifle Association, we ARE coming for your guns. The implication made by the poster was clearthat any such effort would result in civil war.
In 2019, usage spread widely among pro-gun activists on a variety of online platforms, so much so that it was quickly pared down simply to boogaloo or the boogaloo. In August, a Twitter user warned others to buy whatever guns and ammo they wanted now, because soon the ability to do so would be severely curtailed, adding, Button up for the #boogaloo. Now. That same month someone else tweeted the hashtag #boogaloo, warning about 100 million active shooter situations when the cops try to do nationwide gun confiscations.
A range of boogaloo-related phrases also emerged this year, as the term became more popular, including: showing up for the boogaloo, when the boogaloo hits, being boogaloo ready and bring on the boogaloo. Boogaloo-related hashtags have surfaced, including #boogaloo2020, #BigIgloo (igloo-related images are now also used as boogaloo references), #boojahideen, and #boogaloobois.
big igloo
Some people predicted that proposed red flag laws (laws allowing the temporary seizing of firearms from individuals deemed to present a danger to themselves or others) would bring on the boogaloo. Boogaloo-related hashtags now often appear along firearm-related tags, such as #2a, #gunrights, and #ShallNotBeInfringed. Many boogaloo references are directed against the alphabet boys or alphabet gang federal agencies like the FBI and ATF which people assume would assist in any gun confiscations.
In September, then-presidential hopeful Beto ORourke called for a mandatory buyback program for assault weapons, sparking a rash of boogaloo references. You realize your gun confiscation plan would set off the boogaloo, right? one person asked ORourke on Twitter in October. Do you know that you will start a boogaloo? demanded another. Once Beto starts taking the guns away, the boogaloo will start, asserted a third.
boogaloo hoodie
The boogaloo meme soon spread from angry gun-rights activists to the militia movement and survivalists. The Telegram channel Boogaloo: How to Survive claims to show how to survive in a post society world through understanding the psychology of violence, attaining resources, and organizing to accomplish post society tasks. It currently has more than 1,700 members. A militia movement-related website now sells a Boogaloo 2020 t-shirtand it is hardly alone. Now one can buy boogaloo-related clothing and accessories from a variety of online marketplaces, including Amazon. Items include patches, pins and apparel (such as Big Igloo t-shirts).
The boogaloo meme has spread to other movements with anti-government beliefs, primarily minarchists and anarcho-capitalists, which are essentially conservative alternatives to anarchism, as well as a few apparent anarchists. Use of the term by adherents of these philosophies often refers to violence against the state and its institutions, especially law enforcement.
White Supremacists Take Up the Term
White supremacists have also adopted the boogaloo concept. A particularly disturbing boogaloo t-shirt (currently available online) features the word boogaloo under a photograph of John Earnest, the white supremacist who opened fire at a synagogue in Poway, California, in April 2019, killing one person.
Whereas the militia movement, radical gun rights activists typically promote the boogaloo as a war against the government or liberals, white supremacists conceive of the boogaloo as a race war or a white revolution. Some promote boogaloo-related phrases alongside hashtags such as #dotr or #DayOfTheRope, both of which are references to neo-Nazi William Pierces The Turner Diaries, a novelized blueprint for a white revolution.
Accelerationist white supremacists are particularly apt to use boogaloo they seek the violent collapse of modern society in order to bring about a new, white-dominated world. Among them is Paul Nehlen, who gained notoriety by running for U.S. Congress in Wisconsin in 2016 and 2018. After the Poway synagogue shooting, Nehlen embraced both accelerationism and the term boogaloo and has even posted photos of himself wearing the John Earnest/boogaloo shirt.
nehlen piano
In August, the accelerationist Terrorwave Refined Telegram channel posted the following call to arms:
If they are ever dumb enough to come for your guns, let the executive, legislative, and judicial workers and their kike handlers know that they had better confiscate all the manure and trucks in America because the first places youll visit will be the courthouses, legislatures, barracks, and next, their personal homes, their parents [sic] homes, their kids [sic] homes and it will truly be the beginning of the White Mans Boogaloo.
The reference to manure and trucks is likely an allusion to Timothy McVeighs use of an ammonium nitrate truck bomb to destroy the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995.
The white supremacist (and accelerationist) group Feuerkrieg Division recently posted a song about a race-war boogaloo to its official Telegram channel. A sampling of the lyrics makes its thrust clear:
Do the Boogaloo!
Kill the kikes, and save the whites
Come on, its time to go!
Do the Boogaloo!
Plug a pig, and then a Yid
Lets do the Boogaloo, all together now!
Care must be taken when evaluating boogaloo-as-civil-war references, as some peopleeven those in extremist movementsstill use the phrase jokingly, or to mock some of the more fanatical or gung-ho adherents of their own movement.
Judi Lynn
(160,474 posts)2. Thanks for the info., marble falls. n/t