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[etakeh]

Why the Proud Boys Initiation Ritual Involves Cereal

As part of initiation, members get beat up by other Proud Boys until they name five kinds of breakfast cereal.

I did not know about this and the fact that I am reading the details on MyRecipes. com is just.  I still don’t even know. 

Why was I looking into this?  Because apparently there’s a schism happening within the ranks.  Which led to this post.

These jokes write themselves.

And here’s the article they’re referring to in Newsweek, where they talk about the current schism wherein dude decides to show full antisemitic colors by using the name Proud Goys, based on this:

[ja-nel]

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“HATE IS NOT FREE SPEECH” hung over the southbound I-5 in N Portland

There is an important distinction between the right to freedom from government censorship within a liberal democracy and fascist organizing. Fascism is a revolutionary political program that seeks to overthrow an existing government and install an authoritarian regime grounded in conservative right wing ideologies – including white supremacy, xenophobia, sexism, homophobia, colonialism, and anti-Semitism, to name a few. Fascists agitate for hatred of and violence against marginalized people – often in the form of street violence, harassment, stalking, and death threats. Early 20th century fascists exploited ideas of open democracy and ‘free speech’ to propagandize and build an anti-democratic force, which they then leveraged to transform a parliamentary democracy into a militarized authoritarian government called the Third Reich. We learned in kindergarten that words are actions and threats are no joke: fascist speech and fascist organizing are acts of political violence. This is unacceptable and will not be tolerated.