New England FASSep 14, 2024
Anarcho Doggo

So the origins of the grotesque lies about Haitian immigrants come directly from the neo-Nazi group Blood Tribe.

Blood Tribe, founded by esoteric Hitlerist loser Christopher Pohlhaus, is the group that's been marching around Ohio and other parts of the country with Swastikas and screaming "Sieg Hiel" and waving guns at immigrants while shouting at them to "go the fuck back to Africa".

So apparently Laura Loomer, JD Vance, and great replacement bandwagoner Charlie Kirk are the least racist players in this situation.

Blood Tribe member Drake Berentz, giving a racist pseudonym, even testified to the Springfield city council before being ejected.

It is noteworthy how much the dehumanizing, visceral elements of this edge on the ancient antisemitic trope of blood libel (beloved by neo-Nazis). Vance knows this. And these vicious lies about Haitian immigrants spread from Nazis on Telegram and Gab to Donald Trump on the presidential stage in about a week or so. The extent to which the MAGA dominant right is picking up what Nazis are putting down... let's just say the need for proper antifascist research and action is not becoming any less urgent.

References: The Guardian (Stephen Starr), NBC News (Brandy Zadrozny), @rebeccawatson, etc

#BloodTribe #ChristopherPohlhaus #DrakeBerentz #SpringfieldOH

Sep 14, 2024 at 6:06pmWeb
Show threadAnarcho DoggoSep 14, 2024

Really wish ADL just stuck to solid research on white supremacists instead of doing its own genocide apologism and ethnonationalist fuckery. The cognitive dissonance necessary to do the work they've done and then cape so hard for Israeli apartheid and human rights atrocities... it hurts my brain. But with those massive caveats and a giant "fuck you" to Jonathan Greenblatt, this is a decent breakdown of the background on this awful group:
https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounder/blood-tribe

Without caveat, this IDSG episode is worth listening to for more context:
https://soundcloud.com/user-841528318-482060319/idsg-news-brief-blood-tribe-in-nashville

Blood Tribe

ADL
Show threadRiley S. FaelanSep 15, 2024
@AnarchoDoggo The most common way to do organisational cognitive dissonance involves multiple people working for the organisation doing work that is not mutually harmonious.
Show threadAnarcho DoggoSep 14, 2024

Point of clarification for accuracy... it is difficult to pinpoint the very first instance of this lie being spread, eg:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/-just-exploded-springfield-woman-says-never-meant-spark-rumors-haitian-rcna171099

But Blood Tribe was one of the very first to spread it to a wider audience. Many sources cite @/EndWokeness as one of the first to significantly signal boost the disinformation, but this came after Blood Tribe was posting about it:
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/trump-neo-nazis-pushed-false-claims-haitians-part-hate-campaign-rcna170796

"A few days after Blood Tribe’s Gab post, an X account not affiliated with Blood Tribe that is popular in conservative circles, @EndWokeness, posted a screenshot of a message board post and a picture of a man appearing to hold a goose."

This is getting a bit into the weeds but I want to be accurate; but this in no way detracts from the central point that neo-Nazi group Blood Tribe was amongst the very first entities spreading this disgusting lie - and for very clear ideological reasons that are largely shared by groups and individuals who have subsequently spread it.

'It just exploded': Springfield woman claims she never meant to spark false rumors about Haitians

The woman behind an early Facebook post about Haitian immigrants eating local pets that helped thrust a small Ohio city into the national spotlight says she had no first-hand knowledge of any such incident and is now filled with regret and fear as a result of the ensuing fallout.

NBC News
Show threadmarkSep 15, 2024
@AnarchoDoggo I always assume that these things are released by the bad actors who can amplify it a bit, but then they wait for it to be published by a normie, so they can re-amplify it as an experience of the sucker they have tricked.
Show threadlocseSep 14, 2024
@AnarchoDoggo @rebeccawatson this is so fucking unbelievable! Sometimes I think I'm in an alternate reality...
Show threadAnarcho DoggoSep 14, 2024

@atoa respectfully it is not unbelievable to those who have been tracking these groups for years / decades.

It is jarring how quickly much of it has been mainstreamed, but even folks paying attention since Charlottesville have seen the writing on the wall.

Fascists and Nazis have been extremely clear about their ideas and objectives; and Trump and his MAGA fanatics have been cheering for it the entire time.

It's beyond negligent for folks to say they didn't see this coming; we just have a lot more work to do to adequately prepare for what's next

Show threadAnneleise HallSep 14, 2024
@rebeccawatson @AnarchoDoggo Biden needs to do a FTC and lay out for the public it is a Nazi lie. This requires strong leadership.
Show threadAnneleise HallSep 14, 2024
@rebeccawatson @AnarchoDoggo oh he did yesterday. But they are so desperate to distract from Trump they’ll ride that horse til people die. They want chaos. They want militias at voting booths.
Show threadcaseyjonesedSep 14, 2024
@AnarchoDoggo @rebeccawatson To paraphrase the late great John Belushi, I hate Ohio Nazis!
Show threadabolitionbbSep 14, 2024
@AnarchoDoggo damn. I didn't know this and I *really* wish it was more surprising. That's so fucking bleak. Thanks for sharing
Show threadJargogglesSep 14, 2024

@AnarchoDoggo @rebeccawatson
Nazis are so fucking boring - it's always blood libel, every goddamn time.

Obviously that's nowhere near the top of the list of things to hate about Nazis, but holy shit are they are **boring.**

Show threadAlgoCompSynth by znmeb 🇺🇦Sep 14, 2024
@AnarchoDoggo The Republican governor of Ohio needs to condemn this publicly. And I will be asking my Oregon senators why there is not a move to censure J. D. Vance. Ohio folks, please put pressure on your state officials.
Show threadRiaResistsSep 14, 2024
@AlgoCompSynth @AnarchoDoggo thank you.
I’ll figure out who I should call in my state to say the same thing.
Show threadWCOW The ArchersSep 14, 2024

@AnarchoDoggo @rebeccawatson

I hate Ohio Nazis.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTT1qUswYL0

The Blues Brothers (1980) - Nazis Take a Dive Scene (3/9) | Movieclips

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Show threadTeach Honest HistorySep 14, 2024
@AnarchoDoggo @rebeccawatson When you tell me that there are people worse than Laura Loomer, my head hurts.
Show threadLukefromDCSep 15, 2024

@AnarchoDoggo @rebeccawatson This means we antifa should presume we are now at war wirh Blood Tribe, the source of the anti-Haitian pogrom.

We can do a lot of damage to them even short of underground direct action. A campaign of followed up doxxes can be used to take away most of their jobs and some of their housing for starters. It is very toxic even now for say, an automotive paint shop to be held up in public as employing a swastika-wearing hard Nazi.

We are far stronger than Blood Tribe, we are far more numerous