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‘Boomer antifa’: White supremacists rip into paramilitary Oath Keepers for not being racist enough
On the surface, the white supremacists of the burgeoning alt-right movement seem to have a lot in common with the Oath Keepers, the anti-government militia group made up of former military and law enforcement people from around the country.
They share a deep contempt for the federal government. They loathe political correctness in all its forms. They relish a good fight with left-wing activists. And, generally speaking, they support President Trump.
But a confrontation at a recent rally in Houston exposed some crucial differences between the alt-right’s standard-bearers and the older, somewhat less radical Oath Keepers, and the fallout showed just how far they have drifted from one another.
Last Saturday, hundreds of protesters supporting the group This Is Texas, reportedly an Oath Keepers affiliate, gathered at a park in Houston after reports circulated that a statue of slaveholder and former Texas governor Sam Houston was going to be removed. The reports turned out to be fabrications, as the Houston Chronicle reported, but a large crowd of demonstrators turned out, many of them wearing camouflage and carrying guns.
A smaller contingent of white supremacists also attended, among them followers of the popular neo-Nazi hate site the Daily Stormer and the National Vanguard, a neo-Nazi splinter organization dedicated to racial cleansing.
At some point, the two sides started arguing, with attendees from This Is Texas denouncing the white supremacists’ message. The tension erupted when a when young white supremacist — the Daily Stormer called him “one of ours” — was briefly put in a chokehold by an armed protester, then forced away from the demonstration by one of the organizers, David Amad, and a throng of others. Someone filmed the incident and posted the footage to YouTube, and the confrontation was highlighted by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
“Racists are not welcome amongst us, because racism is just plain stupid,” Amad said in the video. “And if you don’t like that, I don’t give a damn.”
The scuffle drew a flurry of attacks this week from the Daily Stormer and the white nationalist Altright.com, which blamed Oath Keepers for the incident and chided the militia group for not being as racist or radical as they would prefer.
“Vicious, Freedom-Hating, Anti-Constitution Oath Keepers Might as Well be the Feds,” read one headline. “Oathkeepers turn against the alt-right,” read another. The sites ridiculed the militia group as “geriatrics,” “normies” and “cucks,” using an insult popular on the alt-right for conservatives who aren’t right-wing enough.
The Daily Stormer referred to the group as “Boomer Antifa,” a riff on the Oath Keepers’ perceived age range and the black clad anti-fascist protesters that have clashed with conservative activists at numerous political rallies this year. (As “antifa” refers to an anti-fascist movement on the extreme left, hurling this term at an ultraconservative is designed to be the ultimate insult.)
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