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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Thu Sep 15, 2022, 06:49 PM Sep 2022

Florida, home of many a Proud Boy, a hotbed for white supremacy. The rest of us can't stand silent

White supremacists and extremists don’t always wear white robes and burn crosses. They don’t necessarily meet in dingy headquarters away from civilized society They are marching on Capitol Hill.

They are flying Nazi flags over interstate overpasses in Florida. They’ve distributed anti-Semitic fliers in Miami Beach, home to a large Jewish population. They have demonstrated outside Disney World, a lighting rod for cultural wars after the company opposed a state parental rights law critics dubbed “Don’t say gay.”

Groups with names like the “White Lives Matter” network, the “Goyim Defense League” and the “New Jersey European Heritage Association” once were relegated to the dark corners of the web. More and more, they feel entitled to publicize their darkest thoughts and beliefs.

Those who have sounded the alarm about the rise of extremism in the Sunshine State have often been dismissed as hysterical liberals. Even as we learned about the Proud Boys’ close ties to Miami Republican politics, in addition to their prominent role in the Jan. 6 attacks, many state leaders remained mum. The Anti-Defamation League describes the Proud Boys as a “right-wing extremist group with a violent agenda” and “some members espouse white supremacist and anti-Semitic ideologies,” which is why it was so rattling to see them show up in force at a recent Miami-Dade School Board meeting.

Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/editorials/article265806851.html

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Florida, home of many a Proud Boy, a hotbed for white supremacy. The rest of us can't stand silent (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Sep 2022 OP
Seems to me that it is Floridians themselves who have to help themselves. riversedge Sep 2022 #1
SW Florida dems and libs have been speaking up against these nazi boys for a while Timeflyer Sep 2022 #2

Timeflyer

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2. SW Florida dems and libs have been speaking up against these nazi boys for a while
Fri Sep 16, 2022, 01:04 PM
Sep 2022

in local school board race they were "proud" and enabled by reThug candidates and christofascist conservative voters they engaged with racist, anti-semitic slurs against opponents. Traitor M. Flynn lives/infects here now, and he's tight with them. We the woke may be outnumbered by conservative reThug elders moving here because "I paid my taxes up north," and they buy DeathSatan's bullying rhetoric. Governor benefits from their presence in the state. If Crist loses, FL is lost.

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