RE: White supremacists and counter protesters clash in Charlottesville
August 13, 2017 at 10:00 pm
(This post was last modified: August 13, 2017 at 10:03 pm by Amarok.)
(August 13, 2017 at 9:52 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(August 13, 2017 at 9:45 pm)Losty Wrote: I do agree with this for the most part, but I think it's important not to ignore this kind of thing. They are terrorists, if we let them run around unchecked we are going to end up with a much bigger problem on our hands.
Wasn't suggesting otherwise, just speculating on the type of people they probably are.
According to [url=[email protected]][email protected][/url]
Quote:To find out which groups would be in attendance, I used the Facebook API to collect publicly-available data about 45,000 Facebook users that are members of 197 far-right groups. Users who replied “yes” (“going”) to the Unite the Right Free Speech Rally Facebook event were sorted according to their membership in those 197 groups. To simplify things, the groups were aggregated by type, for example “southern nationalist”, “white nationalist” or “OathKeeper/militia,” etc.
The groups were generally
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Southern Nationalists: Examples of this designation include KKK, League of the South, Identity Dixie, etc.
[*]White Nationalists: This is a big category. Examples of this designation include National Socialists, Traditional Workers Party, National Association for the Advancement of White People (NAAWP), Aryans, American Freedom Party, AmRen, folkish/kinists/asatru, vinlanders, skinheads, Soldiers of Odin.
[*]Alt-Right: These groups self-describe by name as “Alt Right”
[*]Proud Boys & Alt-Knights: Examples of these groups include Proud Boys, Alt-Knights, Fellowship of Alt-Knights (FOAK), Based stickman enthusiast groups, etc.
[*]Militia, OathKeepers, 3%: These groups self-describe as OathKeepers, militias, or 3%/iii% groups
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