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4/ You think sex crimes are underprosecuted, Gavin? Welcome to the fucking world, dummy. The Washington Post reports that fewer than 1% of rapes actually lead to convictions.https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/10/06/less-than-percent-rapes-lead-felony-convictions-least-percent-victims-face-emotional-physical-consequences/ …
5/ And in a study of sexual assaults in Minnesota, the Minneapolis Star Tribune found that in half the convictions in which the victim knew their attacker, the judges recommended less than a year in jail.https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2019/05/sexual-assault-rape-sympathy-no-prison.html …
6/ Yet the Proud Boys only seem to care when the perpetrator is Jewish. This screenshot is from the Proud Boys' official Telegram channel. They're talking about how the judge who sentenced Hare and Kinsman only gave 18 months to a "Jewish pedophile."pic.twitter.com/fkE5n6Evfw
7/ Why do the Proud Boys keep bringing up that this particular sex offender is Jewish?pic.twitter.com/c7QEMITjVr
8/ The conspiracy theory moved from Gavin McInnes to the Telegram channel of American Guard founder Brien James. James is former KKK and founder of the Vinlanders Social Club, one of the most violent neo-Nazi skinhead organizations in the country.pic.twitter.com/96ruyKUc85
9/ James also traffics in more open antisemitic conspiracy theories about Jews controlling the media.pic.twitter.com/r3RyNEVqSK
10/ In fact, the @ADL calls James' organization, the American Guard, "hardcore white supremacists."https://www.adl.org/blog/behind-the-american-guard-hardcore-white-supremacists …
11/ And surprise, surprise-- Saturday's Proud Boys rally featured members of the American Guard. Longtime NYC-area fascist Gabriel Brown, who recently joined the American Guard, was present.pic.twitter.com/LWzxT5LX0H
12/ Here's Proud Boys Chairman Enrique Tarrio hanging out with another member of the American Guard at the rally's afterparty. Note the crest on her shirt. That's the American Guard logo.pic.twitter.com/708Eb7kWIs
13/ So why did Gavin McInnes and the Proud Boys target an Orthodox community with a banner linking Jews to sex crimes? Why does the Proud Boys Telegram channel emphasize a pedophile's Jewish identity? Same reason Nazi newspaper Der Sturmer did. It creates a convenient enemy.pic.twitter.com/AFcEHJLti5
14/ Sex crimes are fundamentally about power and abuses of power. And overwhelmingly, the locus of that power is gender. So what's an org like the Proud Boys to do, when they explicitly organize around the kind of toxic male power that drives most sex crimes? Blame the Jews.
15/ Antisemitism is on the rise in the United States, but the state isn't responding to it. Governor Andrew Cuomo's statement denouncing the banners mentions nothing about antisemitism. But it does mention "anti-Italian sentiment" because one of the banners called him "Fredo."pic.twitter.com/mG1FjqyM4Z
16/ The state won't protect us here. It wasn't the state who took down the banners-- it was antifascists mobilizing in their communities.
17/ We need to recognize antisemitic dogwhistles, like the kind Gavin McInnes and the Proud Boys are pushing, and take steps to protect our communities.
Who protects us?
We protect us.
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