Chuck Darwin on Nostr: Far right and far out: Extremists have a long history in Southern California It’s a ...
Far right and far out:
Extremists have a long history in Southern California
It’s a white supremacist group calling itself RAM
— a swaggering, belligerent acronym for the Rise Again Movement that to all appearances is a cluster of melanin–obsessed men dedicated to the brand of brutish mayhem that white supremacists amp up for.
A man who co-founded RAM in Southern California just wound up in court,
where he pleaded guilty to conspiring to riot,
having attended a Huntington Beach rally in March 2016 where he and others of his ilk “pursued and assaulted” people,
including one protester he tackled and punched multiple times.
Takeaway: Don’t ever let the Pacific-blue geopolitics of California surprise you. -- Dismay or appall you, sure, but never surprise you.
Like a taut earthquake fault that too often unbelts itself and cuts loose with repellent force,
a deep lode of hate and racist one-upmanship undergirds Southern California.
This is not of recent stamp only.
The slow-walk destruction of Native Americans,
Los Angeles’ 1871 Chinese massacre
and the marginalizing and demonizing of Latinos and Asians don’t square with the kumbaya California vibe.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-12-31/explaining-la-with-patt-morrison-white-supremacy
Extremists have a long history in Southern California
It’s a white supremacist group calling itself RAM
— a swaggering, belligerent acronym for the Rise Again Movement that to all appearances is a cluster of melanin–obsessed men dedicated to the brand of brutish mayhem that white supremacists amp up for.
A man who co-founded RAM in Southern California just wound up in court,
where he pleaded guilty to conspiring to riot,
having attended a Huntington Beach rally in March 2016 where he and others of his ilk “pursued and assaulted” people,
including one protester he tackled and punched multiple times.
Takeaway: Don’t ever let the Pacific-blue geopolitics of California surprise you. -- Dismay or appall you, sure, but never surprise you.
Like a taut earthquake fault that too often unbelts itself and cuts loose with repellent force,
a deep lode of hate and racist one-upmanship undergirds Southern California.
This is not of recent stamp only.
The slow-walk destruction of Native Americans,
Los Angeles’ 1871 Chinese massacre
and the marginalizing and demonizing of Latinos and Asians don’t square with the kumbaya California vibe.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-12-31/explaining-la-with-patt-morrison-white-supremacy