THREAD: There's been some confusion about the Proud Boys having POC members. People keep asking, "How can they be white nationalists?" Technically, they're not. They're "reactionary nationalists." But they don't mind organizing with white nationalists. Here's what that means.
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2) Researcher Matthew Lyons defines the "far right" as forces that "(a) regard human inequality as natural, inevitable, or desirable and (b) reject the legitimacy of the established political system." This is a *very* useful working definition: http://threewayfight.blogspot.com/2018/04/insurgent-supremacists-new-book-about.html …
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3) Did you see anything about race in that definition? Nope. That's because a lot of the forces we're seeing don't explicitly organize on the basis of white racial solidarity. They also don't mind organizing alongside those who do.
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Replying to @AntiFashGordon
Wouldn't devout Muslims and Hasidic Jews be considered far right?
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This is definitely an innocent line of questioning that will definitely not turn Islamophobic and antisemitic in the course of your next three tweets. 


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