Posted on 11/27/2019 1:22:14 PM PST by Perseverando
It’s not often an old joke evolves into a catchphrase for mass violence, but that’s just what’s happened this past year when a variety of extremist and fringe movements and subcultures adopted the word “boogaloo” as shorthand for a future civil war.
From militia groups to white supremacists, extremists on a range of online platforms talk about—and sometimes even anticipate—the “boogaloo.” The rise of “boogaloo,” and its casual acceptance of future mass violence, is disturbing. Among some extremists, it may even signify an increased willingness to engage in violence.
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“Boogaloo” has its roots in decades of jokes about an old movie: the 1984 breakdancing film Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloo. Almost from the moment of the movie’s release, people exploited the format of the movie’s title for humorous purposes, replacing “Breakin’” with some other film, event or person of their choice.
These jokes included “Civil War 2: Electric Boogaloo” references, made every so often by gamers and history buffs, among others. But its most recent, and most serious, iteration caught on and spread very quickly. Though some still use the phrase as a joke, an increasing number of people employ it with serious intent.
Gun Rights Activists Threaten Violence
This new usage seems to have started with gun rights activists intimating or promising violence if the government were to “come for their guns.” The full phrase has been used this way before; for example, in June 2018 someone started a Reddit thread titled “Civil War 2: Electric Boogaloo” featuring a 2012 Facebook post by Gavin Newsom, then California’s lieutenant governor, telling the National Rifle Association, “we ARE coming for your guns.” The implication made by the poster was clear—that any such effort would result in civil war.
In 2019, usage spread widely among pro-gun activists on a variety of online platforms, so much so that it was quickly pared down simply to “boogaloo” or “the boogaloo.” In August, a Twitter user warned others to buy whatever guns and ammo they wanted now, because soon the ability to do so would be “severely curtailed,” adding, “Button up for the #boogaloo. Now.” That same month someone else tweeted the hashtag #boogaloo, warning about 100 million “active shooter” situations “when the cops try to do nationwide gun confiscations.”
A range of boogaloo-related phrases also emerged this year, as the term became more popular, including: “showing up for the boogaloo,” “when the boogaloo hits,” “being boogaloo ready” and “bring on the boogaloo.” Boogaloo-related hashtags have surfaced, including #boogaloo2020, #BigIgloo (igloo-related images are now also used as boogaloo references), #boojahideen, and #boogaloobois.
big igloo Some people predicted that proposed “red flag” laws (laws allowing the temporary seizing of firearms from individuals deemed to present a danger to themselves or others) would bring on the boogaloo. Boogaloo-related hashtags now often appear along firearm-related tags, such as #2a, #gunrights, and #ShallNotBeInfringed. Many boogaloo references are directed against the “alphabet boys” or “alphabet gang” – federal agencies like the FBI and ATF – which people assume would assist in any gun confiscations.
In September, then-presidential hopeful Beto O’Rourke called for a mandatory buyback program for assault weapons, sparking a rash of boogaloo references. “You realize your gun confiscation plan would set off the boogaloo, right?” one person asked O’Rourke on Twitter in October. “Do you know that you will start a boogaloo?” demanded another. “Once Beto starts taking the guns away, the boogaloo will start,” asserted a third.
boogaloo hoodie The boogaloo meme soon spread from angry gun-rights activists to the militia movement and survivalists. The Telegram channel “Boogaloo: How to Survive” claims to show “how to survive in a post society world through understanding the psychology of violence, attaining resources, and organizing to accomplish post society tasks.” It currently has more than 1,700 members. A militia movement-related website now sells a “Boogaloo 2020” t-shirt—and it is hardly alone. Now one can buy boogaloo-related clothing and accessories from a variety of online marketplaces, including Amazon. Items include patches, pins and apparel (such as “Big Igloo” t-shirts).
The boogaloo meme has spread to other movements with anti-government beliefs, primarily minarchists and anarcho-capitalists, which are essentially conservative alternatives to anarchism, as well as a few apparent anarchists. Use of the term by adherents of these philosophies often refers to violence against the state and its institutions, especially law enforcement.
White Supremacists Take Up the Term
White supremacists have also adopted the boogaloo concept. A particularly disturbing boogaloo t-shirt (currently available online) features the word boogaloo under a photograph of John Earnest, the white supremacist who opened fire at a synagogue in Poway, California, in April 2019, killing one person.
Whereas the militia movement, radical gun rights activists typically promote the boogaloo as a war against the government or liberals, white supremacists conceive of the boogaloo as a race war or a white revolution. Some promote boogaloo-related phrases alongside hashtags such as #dotr or #DayOfTheRope, both of which are references to neo-Nazi William Pierce’s The Turner Diaries, a novelized blueprint for a white revolution.
Accelerationist white supremacists are particularly apt to use “boogaloo” – they seek the violent collapse of modern society in order to bring about a new, white-dominated world. Among them is Paul Nehlen, who gained notoriety by running for U.S. Congress in Wisconsin in 2016 and 2018. After the Poway synagogue shooting, Nehlen embraced both accelerationism and the term boogaloo and has even posted photos of himself wearing the John Earnest/boogaloo shirt.
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In August, the accelerationist “Terrorwave Refined” Telegram channel posted the following call to arms:
If they are ever dumb enough to come for your guns, let the executive, legislative, and judicial workers and their kike handlers know that they had better confiscate all the manure and trucks in America…because the first places you’ll visit will be the courthouses, legislatures, barracks, and next, their personal homes, their parents [sic] homes, their kids [sic] homes…and it will truly be the beginning of the White Man’s Boogaloo.
The reference to manure and trucks is likely an allusion to Timothy McVeigh’s use of an ammonium nitrate truck bomb to destroy the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City in 1995.
The white supremacist (and accelerationist) group Feuerkrieg Division recently posted a song about a race-war boogaloo to its official Telegram channel. A sampling of the lyrics makes its thrust clear:
Do the Boogaloo!
Kill the kikes, and save the whites
Come on, it’s time to go!
Do the Boogaloo!
Plug a pig, and then a Yid
Let’s do the Boogaloo, all together now!
Care must be taken when evaluating boogaloo-as-civil-war references, as some people—even those in extremist movements—still use the phrase jokingly, or to mock some of the more fanatical or gung-ho adherents of their own movement.
Talk of CWII is thick in the air, but nothing like it will be in less than a year from now. What’s that about gun sales in 2019 smashing all previous records?
Most secular and religious jews mock Christians and Christianity, whether or not they they are insane leftists. I am a christian nationalist.
Israel for the jews, including ALL of the diaspora, secular or otherwise.
Japan for the japanese.
Americans for heritage Americans.
China for the chinese, etc.
Very good! I am sitting here laughing and laughing.
Until all of those things are lost in the economic collapse caused by a future Democrat (Socialist) Government.
Start with Chuck Schumer and RBG...?
Your views of Jews are erroneous in considerable measure. That there are some bad actors is certainly evident. The good jews have as much angst and concern about them as good Christians have about bad acting Christians. The simple fact is that no church or synagogue has figured out a way to stop evil acts by bad actors, whether Christians, Jews, or anyone else. Calling yourself a “heritage american” to the exclusion of many other Americans who have worked hard and contributed greatly to our country — is nothing much more then an overt acknowledgment of bigotry — and sorry to have to point out but it’s something you’ll have to answer for when you meet Jesus (the Jewish rabbi) in eternity if you fail to overcome it in this life. If you wish to dispute against bad actors how about we join forces and try to win the only struggle that counts - good over evil - recognizing that Jesus taught our Father’s word and moral values as shared even today by Christian and Jewish faithful everywhere. Just saying —
And the America’s for the “native anericans?” Sending the white men back to Europe maybe? That’s your argument
I know better now.
There is no Judeo-Christianity, because there is no Judeo-Christ.
One can support and defend Israel, without agreeing with every bit of left-wing social engineering the Jews do.
Some of us who believe like the Friends of Israel Gospel Ministry https://www.foi.org/ haven’t given up on Israel yet. God hasn’t given up on Israel and they crucified His Son.
Personally, I’m a little concerned that God may judge America to encourage Israel to shape up. That would certainly be an incentive for many Jews to make aliyah to Israel, as some as theorized.
12 Listen to me, you stubborn-hearted,
you who are now far from my righteousness.
13 I am bringing my righteousness near,
it is not far away;
and my salvation will not be delayed.
I will grant salvation to Zion,
my splendor to Israel.
Isaiah 46:12, 13 NIV
I just reread your post after making my post #112 and am now a little confused on our differences of opinion, if any.
As far as I know I don't believe in any of the left-wing social engineering of the Jews, or the rest of the statists.
“Where does that put the ADL”
......a gleeful instigator?
“You could post on Twitter that picking your nose with your pinky extended means “I like lynching Mexicans!”
.....there’s you go, you just let the cat outta the bag. No one was supposed to know about that.
“Most secular and religious jews mock Christians and Christianity, whether or not they they are insane leftists. I am a christian nationalist.”
Having lived and worked for an extended time in Israel, I can say with certainty that you don’t know what you’re talking about.
Bethlehem
LOL!
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Update: #AlexBooth arrested AGAIN.
So let me get this straight. Within THREE DAYS, this guy goes from releasable to NOT RELEASABLE. This is CLEARLY an attempt to make this dude look like a VIOLENTCRIMINAL. Here’s my view:
1. Menacing is an interesting and very technical charge. Why didn’t they charge him with ALL the charges after this stand off?
2. It looks like TO ME, they needed to come up with a way to deny him from speaking about the situation DIRECTLY, so to give him ANOTHER charge, WHILE OUT ON BAIL, revokes the first bail. He can’t discuss what actually went down while in jail and the misinformation can run rampant.
3. There STILL has YET to be ANY showing of his charges or convictions for ANY domestic abuse. If he WAS convicted of domestic abuse, he would’ve ALREADY been barred from “lawfully” owning firearms. Why is everyone conveniently ignoring that FACT?
4. The amount of people that rushed to support him (whether he is crying wolf or not) May have saved SEVERAL LIVES. His and/or officers. We are all picking a side, but the eyes on this situation galvanized mostly by social media may have prevented death. HIS.
5. There were NO FIREARMS SEIZED, which means he was NEVER a threat. Hence him being released initially.
6. There have been TONS of conflicting statements by the PD, and this is another contradiction. Him being initially investigated was said to be for one reason then switched. Him being arraigned for charges NOTHING to do with what that same PD said AFTER the stand off. And now, charging him with another charge AFTER being released speaks to several contradictions alone.
I hope that you will all continue to watch this case with OBJECTIVITY, I will post more info and perspective as it comes my way. I will be doing an IG live on this TONIGHT at 5 pm PT, 8 pm EST. Vibe in and let’s discuss perspective and what we can LEARN from this Solutionarys. #LordToure #GunCommUNITY
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The Fantastic Johnny C — Boogaloo Down Broadway / 1967
I used to like that funky song .....
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