“I think they’re [the Klan] collapsing,” said Beirich. “They showed up in Charlottesville [the violent rally last August], and they tried to glom onto the hipper part of the movement like Identity Evropa, Vanguard America, and the National Policy Institute. That’s where the action is.”
Can we just collectively acknowledge how pathetic it is that in 2018, literal neo-nazi movements are being considered "hip"?
Why do neo-nazis fucking love dorky khakis so much? They objectively look terrible.
Don't know where the khakis=white supremecist comes from
But I do correlate them with cargo shorts.
God dammit, I like khakis. Why do Nazis have to ruin everything?
I'm sorry to break it to you, but khakis were bad waaaaay before that.
Seriously, though, is this news? The only people this article is meant for are people who saw it plain as day in Charleston or with everything that's happened the past year and a half. People have been saying "the alt right used memes to win" forever now. Disenfranchised white dudes who don't understand other peoples' situations and fall into easy traps set for them on the internet.
I think it's worth reporting on because the popular image of white nationalists or white supremacists and their various identitarian offshoots are of robe-wearing vigilantes burning crosses on peoples lawns, when the reality is that it's becoming more mainstream and adapting to changes in technology like social media.
Fuck I wear khakis. I didn't know something so ugly would become evil.
Are we talking khaki as in the kinda tan colour or is there something I'm missing here that denotes a kind of pants as khakis? I've always thought of it as a colour. I also don't really associate tan pants with neo-nazis. Though I do associate cargo pants with the kinds of people who are often subject to being weird internet people and possibly neo nazis.
Next they're going to somehow make Vibram Fivefingers even more socailly taboo.
Like fuck man they were just weird having the toes in them but now you've made them evil, too.
Apparently it’s because they view the war against rhodesia (or what is now Zimbabwe) as a race war of some sort.
They’ve began using Rhodesia as there Alamo.
IIRC, they wear Khaki due to it having a working-class appeal, as well as reference to war outfits in Africa. Namely DAK and Rhodesian Lights.
Realistically speaking, the working class appeal, works pretty well. Ya' gotta remember that politics and war are all spectator sports. In terms of looking professional, the fascist groups have sorta had the market cornered for the last hundred years. And the loudest folks on the left tend to look like local insane asylum inductees.
The article is about how white supremacists don't necessarily mark themselves with hoods anymore. They dress well (the whole thing about khakis) nowadays, and can be harder to point out because of this. In other words, "neo-nazis now look normal like you or me, not like a neo-nazi."
Now, weather it's because of them trying to blend in, or because we're labeling more people "neo nazi" who really might not be, is another topic altogether.
Ah okay thank you for clarifying. That's the idea I was getting from the article but I wasn't really sure since I didn't see anything in it explaining the whole khaki thing. I figured maybe that was some kind of cultural association that I was just supposed to have known.
The actual Nazis in WWII looked professional. The alt-right looks like they accidentally wandered into the rally from their dead-end sales jobs.
"Just a weekend out with the boys, fighting for our right to survive against the oppressive Jewish Deep-Sta-*VMMMM* Oh hold on, I gotta take this. Hello? Bob, how is- Uh huh... Yes, I closed that sale yesterday... Uh-huh... Yes the one with the fancy hedges out front... Uh-huh... Okay, bye. Now where was I..."
After 1945, when you thought "currently active fascist", you thought of a skinhead or some other violence prone goon that spent most of their time in and out of various correctional facilities. And by loudest folks on the left, I'll assume you're trying to point to antifa, most of whom look more like rebellious high schoolers.
I wear khakis, never heard of a connection between khakis and ass holes tho, is that an American thing?
militarism is a core tenet of fascism so it wouldn't surprise me if the khaki was a mix of organised middle-class and military chic.
shouldn't surprise anyone though, the klan is as on-the-nose as an SS uniform and you can only enjoy sitting as an extreme outsider group for so long before wanting a bit of legitimacy
white people don't understand fashion. you can't blame them though, yakub made them that way
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