boogaloo boys blog post
Tags: militias
- Question: do the boogaloo boys fight for the right to move on?
- priors
- boogaloo boys is not merely a “far right” movement
- many different groups, not simply far right “facists” or racists
- they struggle for the american ideal, which is not necessarily a white genoicde (although can certainly encompass it)
- america explicit avoids totalization
- https://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Garrison-State-Aaron-Friedberg/dp/0691048908/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=Aaron+Friedberg&qid=1570393858&s=books&sr=1-4
- this country operates largely in decentralized components
- america experiences dramatic bouts of national amensia
- veitnam
- afghanistan
- iraq
- etc
- settler colonialism and it’s ideals in america
- upholding the “midwest” as an american ideal
- https://www-jstor-org.proxy.library.nyu.edu/stable/pdf/10.5309/willmaryquar.76.3.0383.pdf?refreqid=excelsior%3Afbb97039cfe34c712fb23f0d7bf3e41e
- america, in it’s unique experiences, has dispossed natives and non-natives without every undergoing any form of transitional justice
- native americans
- slavery/the south
- sherman’s march is held up in history because of it’s uniqueness -> we never disposs people
- transitional justice is sometimes in contracdiction to peacebuilding
- the boog fight for the right to forget past traumas, not because of slavery, or racism, or facism
- uniquely libertarian strain to american culture and notions of self
- unrelated to race, much like unrelated to the religion in the old days
- us culture is unique here, liberatarian
- boogaloo boys is not merely a “far right” movement
- Thesis: Boog fight for uniquely american right to forget past atrocities, overriding sense of american identity
- start by talking about settler colonialism
- racism of work vs racism of land
- farmsted, american culture, libertarianism
- how the US avoids totalization
- how the US experiences dramatic bouts of amensia -> burst open like a dam
- talk about how the current experiences of the boog
- decentralized
- almost a reflection of american instiutions
- not completely racist
- inner struggle with bigotry
- latino member of boog shooting a cop
- https://extremism.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/zaxdzs2191/f/Timothy%20John%20Watson%20Criminal%20Complaint.pdf
- https://unicornriot.ninja/2020/patriotwaves-boogaloo-engineering-an-aesthetic-of-violence/
- https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/05/31/federal-protection-services-officer-killed-in-oakland-drive-by-shooting-identified/
- support for hamas: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-self-described-boogaloo-bois-charged-attempting-provide-material-support-hamas
- https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/07/american-boogaloo-meme-or-terrorist-movement/613843/
- https://twitter.com/colocha_rachel/status/1319709039132086272
- https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/06/05/boogaloo-started-racist-meme
- https://militia.watch/read/uprising-boogaloo-shooting/
- https://militia.watch/read/zello-operator/
- decentralized
- start by talking about settler colonialism