{"id":300115,"date":"2024-04-16T16:46:06","date_gmt":"2024-04-16T20:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=300115"},"modified":"2024-04-16T16:46:06","modified_gmt":"2024-04-16T20:46:06","slug":"civil-war-or-boogaloo-wet-dream-far-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/world\/usa\/civil-war-or-boogaloo-wet-dream-far-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil War or Boogaloo wet dream"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the United States, the expression \u201cCivil War\u201d is overwhelmingly associated with <\/span>far-wing<\/a> groups who tend to self-identify themselves as libertarians or \u201caccelerationists,\u201d that is, individuals who seek to accelerate the fall of the Federal Government through armed actions.<\/span><\/p>\n

It has been called boogaloo, originally a <\/span>popular music genre<\/a> that emerged among the Latin community of New York in the 1960s, influenced by soul and rhythm and blues, but a word adopted by them from the beginning as a synonym for \u201cmotion.\u201d According to the <\/span>Southern Poverty Law Center<\/a>, it began to predominate in early 2019 in far-right websites when it was adopted by neo-fascists and white supremacists.<\/span><\/p>\n

In their study <\/span>\u201cThe Evolution of the Boogaloo Movement,\u201d<\/a> Matthew Kreener and John Lewis characterize it as follows:<\/span><\/p>\n

The Boogaloo movement\u2019s broad appeal stems from a set of abstract virtues, or ideographs, that are deeply familiar to many Americans: liberty, rejection of government abuses, and disgust at authoritarianism.\u00a0Boogaloo\u2019s corrupted conceptualization of these ideographs is largely manifested through a crowdsourced myth-building in the form of memes, and derive political and moral legitimacy by tapping into (and distorting and hijacking) the United States\u2019 founding narrative of a struggle against tyranny.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Furthermore, the Boogaloo has rapidly incorporated current events into its mobilization efforts, drawing disparate interests into one broad river targeting a perceived tyrannical system.\u00a0And despite varied paths to the Boogaloo milieu and the ideological differences within it, Boogaloo adherents largely maintain alignment over political grievances such as over gun control measures \u2014 particularly through the use of so-called red flag laws….<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Like other phenomena of its type, it is also characterized by adopting its own codes, not only for reasons of identity but also to make its detection by federal authorities more difficult. The use of words on networks such as big igloo and big luau \u2014 phonetic derivations of the word boogaloo \u2014 has led its members to incorporate igloos, Hawaiian shirts and other distinctive features on their clothing. Its followers often refer to themselves as boogaloo bois, boogs or boojahideen.<\/span><\/p>\n

As <\/span>one analyst<\/a> puts it, members of this rather amorphous movement appear to have conflicting ideological views. Some identify as anarchists; others reject formal labels. Some have supported white supremacy; others reject it. But they have at least two things in common: an affinity for carrying weapons in public and a war cry: boogaloo. That is to say: a code to designate\/summon the long-awaited second American civil war.<\/span><\/p>\n

Some have become visible alongside protesters for racial justice, which, according to some, makes the movement difficult to pigeonhole. But when you look at it, it is an attitude that seems to take advantage of the opportunity. During 2020, Boogaloo supporters attended racial protests and riots and often attempted to take advantage of street tensions to fuel violence and chaos.<\/span><\/p>\n

The above leads to a point of the greatest importance. Having been born, as was seen, on the internet, the year 2020 marks, in effect, the moment when the representatives of the movement decided to come out into the open reality on the occasion of the murder of George Floyd by a police officer in Minnesota. Among the actions carried out then, the following stand out:<\/span><\/p>\n