I first learned about the “Day of the Rope” over 22 years ago, when I was active refuting online Holocaust denial and started learning about the white supremacism and fascism that promoted Holocaust denial. 2/
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The Day of the Rope is a disturbingly common image and term in white supremacist circles. They fantasize about it. They discuss how to bring it about. It is an aspirational goal of hard core white supremacists. To see it at the Capitol is beyond disturbing to me. 3/3
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Oh, so it’s just “art.” That makes it OK then.

3a/3https://twitter.com/chaseS_A/status/1346935683437404160 …
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More on the Day of the Rope. White supremacists, having taken over California, start lynching “race traitors.” 3b/3https://www.adl.org/education/references/hate-symbols/day-of-the-rope …
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Interesting. No one is reporting that Viking dude is covered in tattoos of white supremacy symbols.https://twitter.com/jeff_deeney/status/1346932471846223873 …
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Timothy McVeigh was the OKC bomber and was indeed massively influenced by the Turner Diaries. As was the murderer of James Byrd Jr.
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Thanks for contextualizing this. I had noticed this but didn’t see a clear though-line.
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Historical motives were different, but all this situation really brings to mind the days of the Terror during the French Revolution. Really scary...
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