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1. polymerwitch :blobraccoon: (polymerwitch@anarchism.online)'s status on Sunday, 04-Aug-2019 11:49:10 EDT polymerwitch :blobraccoon:
   36 years ago, the grand dragon of the texas KKK, Louis Beam, started circulating an essay that would go on to influence the alt-right and the movement of white supremacist organizing in america:
   
   "[Beam] argued that groups should essentially organize into two levels. The first would be a network of militant, underground “phantom cells” that carry out violence individually or in small groups. The second would be the public-facing, political arm of the movement that claims not to be affiliated with the violence. “Most groups who ‘unify’ their disparate associates into a single structure have short political lives,” Beam wrote. Every white supremacist would make “a private decision in the quietness of his heart to resist: to resist by any means necessary.” The public groups would blend in “with mainstream ‘kosher’ associations that are generally seen as harmless.” And when one individual or cell got caught committing a crime, they would be disavowed as lone wolves, so as to not compromise the the movement and its public figures."
   
   https://timeline.com/louis-beam-white-supremacy-history-20d028315d
   1. polymerwitch :blobraccoon: (polymerwitch@anarchism.online)'s status on Sunday, 04-Aug-2019 11:53:09 EDT polymerwitch :blobraccoon:

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      there is a reason white men with white supremacist manifestos continue to be behind horrific acts of terrorism. it was planned. the messaging of white supremacists is built to organize these types of attacks. still, the media largely ignores this. police use kid gloves when dealing with white supremacist terrorists (in Portland when police apprehended Jeremy Christian they let him finish his beer before arresting him ... he had just murdered 2 people)