re: Far Right group Boogaloo Boys pretending to be protestors, shot at cops and rioted in Minn

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Some boogaloo groups are white supremacist or neo-Nazi and specifically believe that the boogaloo will be a race war.[4][7][19] Some boogaloo groups have condemned racism.[10][20] The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has said that "few of [the boogaloo movement's] adherents are interested in aligning with Black Lives Matter or antifascist protesters against police brutality".[3] According to The Guardian, "there's real disagreement, even among experts who monitor extremist groups, about whether the 'boogaloo' movement as a whole should be described as 'white supremacist'" and that analysts from the ADL and Middlebury's Center on Terrorism, Extremism and Counterterrorism (CTEC) have argued that "a significant number of 'boogaloo' supporters are genuinely not white supremacist". The researchers have described the movement as having two wings: "one advocating for race war and one obsessed with societal breakdown and rebellion against the government".[24] However, "other experts say that lip service from some 'boogaloo' supporters about wanting to be a multi-racial movement should not be taken seriously".[24] According to Joan Donovan, director of the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, "[w]e're equivocating for the sake of an imagined audience. The idea that you would dismantle the US government at this stage is to undo the protections that have been granted to black people, queer people, disabled people, to stop foreign policy related to immigration. There are always racialized and eugenic sub-themes in these groups. That's what war is, at its base. It's about who should live. I don't think you can get away from the ways in which the rhetoric supports a white supremacist ideology, once you start talking about the kinds of policies or strategies they think need to be implemented".[24]

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Everybody just pick your favorite side and run with it, I guess.

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Sounds more like Manson disciples that escaped the commune to me.

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I would say more along the lines of Ruby Ridge.

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At some point you become so far left or right that there is no difference.

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I don't understand why some can't grasp this

You're welcome...

What happened at Ruby Ridge doesn’t really apply. The Weaver family wasn’t trying to start a race war and while anti government, they just wanted to be left alone.

Yeah, at the end of the day it doesn't matter if they're far right or far left. Being that far on whatever political spectrum doesn't negate that entire spectrum's validity. I don't assume all right-leaning people are shitty because of a group like the KKK just like I don't assume that all left-leaning people are shitty because of a group like antifa. Bad is bad, and we should be calling it out regardless and not attaching it to the larger political picture.

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Trying to understand who they are here. Seems like many are defending them. Are they aligned with BLM?

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They want to start a race war that they call "the boogaloo" and most are white supremacists. Does that sound like BLM to you?

That is awesome, thank you!!!

I mean...are they?

or are they mostly angry internet nerds mostly LARPing and one occasionally takes it too far?

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look at their wkipedia

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You think they wrote their entry?

Please tell me you're not that fricking stupid.

Oh wait, you're the tard that said the michigan militia dude was the ringleader of the whitmer plot then tucked tail and ran when I called your dumb arse out.