Mass incarceration based on profiling is a form of random violence.
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This makes me sad. Iâm sure it was bound to happen, but dammit I really liked the marching hammers! No Iâm not a skinhead but thanks for checking.
He has a point. While many people enjoy tattoos for purely decoration and personal reason, there are a lot of people who have them for gang affiliation. I am sure when spotted cops spend extra time shaking them down.
To be clear, not worried about the girl with a star on her cheek or the guy with a Samoan tribal design. Am worried about a guy with âwhite powerâ where his eyebrows should be, or MS13 on his chest. Context and all.
And that isnât random violence - if you are profiling you have a plan and a method.
When the cops decided that anyone wearing a Thorâs hammer pendant or sporting Celtic knotwork tattoos was a violent racist fresh out of prison it didnât work out real well for my friends who had those distinguishing features long before the prison gangs started doing it. We did get a pseudo-apology from the SPLC, though.
Tell me this: I see a lot of cars with â88â on them. These people claim to be fans of something called âNASCARâ, whatever that is, and some guy named âEarnhardtâ. But you and I know that 88 stands for âHeil Hitlerâ, so why donât we just have the cops blanket arrest everyone with â88â or âNASCARâ or âEarnhardtâ stickers? Iâm pretty sure theyâre probably statistically more likely to be violent racist chuckleheads than anyone else.
It is not about tattoos itâs about displaying know hate symbols. If i see a German 20 something kid out walking, I do not assume he is antisemitic. If he is wearing a swastika t shirt I am thinking he probably is.
The technical term is âbad appleâ
Thatâs the argument made about white supremacists, that they are lone wolves. This is the terminology that the FBI/law enforcement and more importantly, the media, has been using in recent years. Timothy McVeigh was influenced by the Turner Diaries, but that is no reflection on western, American culture. But muslims who take violent political action are imagined to be shaped and conditioned by their culture or religion, in almost a cult like manner. Hence, muslims are terrorists, and other muslims/their religion/culture are responsible for them, but white men who do similar things are no real reflection on the culture they come from.
But yeah, people would use the term bad apple too.
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When have they never played fast-and-loose with fascism-in-the-west?
That video is in a lineage from Triumph of the Will, yes, but also Wes Anderson and The Men Who Stare at Goats.
The whole N.A.T.O. album was brilliant (I saw it live in Budapest, once upon an ancient mittel-europan time). I admit, I havenât heard much of them in the past 10 years. Maybe theyâve started to drink the kool-aid theyâve been accusing the rest of us of drinking.
(Jesus Christ Superstar is from a different album)
Iâm still partial to the the Let It Be album and the various versions/remixes of Sympathy for the Devil.
If they were from California theyâd have been The Polyphonic Spree with more cultish overtones (yes, I know: DALLAS).
Or, if theyâd been astrophysicists from a Nazi-domination England:
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Iâm actually writing a paper about these guys for a grad student conference on capitalism in May (they fit into my masterâs thesis on punk in Yugoslavia, too). Iâm comparing them and Fela Kuti as examples of political popular music, that both carries a criticism of capitalism, while circulating within a field of capitalist cultural production, globally.
I donât think Laibach has given up their vision, actually. If anything, Iâd say they are once again, hitting the zeitgeist in just the same way that they did in the decade after Titoâs death and on into the period of the Balkan wars. What they have to say, however unclear some people might find it, is extremely relevant.
Also, I wished they were coming to town on their upcoming tour, but sadly, no.
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I ducking love Laibach, to the inexplicable chagrin of a large percentage of my friends and family. My girlfriend likes them though. Sheâs a keeper.
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But that would be the worst kind of profiling that could potentially get a lot of white people arrested⌠The justice system is only interested in profiling that leads to brown people being hassled for no reason.
But it is sooooooo depressing. If you havenât had a chance to watch this weeks Vice News on HBO, they touched on the subject of militias in America (not from a white power perspective, but it was hard not to notice that damn near everyone in those militias were white). That shit is scary. Hoard all the ar-15s you want, but when the government drones start cruising American skies in earnest, itâs game over man.
There must be some way to convince these people to change the name of their club to Hammerforeskin.
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The Intelligence Report tracks all the racist hate groups, but yeah, I think about 80% of them are self-proclaimed âWhite Christian Patriotsâ.
But donât worry - government drones arenât flying over Elohim City! You can still get away with being a nutbag militant racist in American as long as youâre nominally Christian.
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