Groups of neo-Nazis and white supremacists spread antisemitic, white supremacist and anti-LGBTQ messages outside Disney World and in the nearby Orlando, Florida, area Saturday in the latest examples of rising antisemitism in the U.S., officials said.

About 15 people wearing clothing and bearing flags emblazoned with Nazi insignia demonstrated outside the entrance to the Disney Springs shopping center, said the Orange County Sheriff’s Office, which said deputies were dispatched around 10:40 a.m.

According to the Anti-Defamation League, a civil rights organization dedicated to countering extremism, participants carried antisemitic, white supremacist and anti-LGBTQ flags and signs. The group consisted of members of the neo-Nazi groups Order of the Black Sun, Aryan Freedom Network and 14 First, a now disbanded group that has been absorbed into the National Socialist Movement, the largest neo-Nazi group in the U.S., according to the ADL.

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      He wore his new MAGA hat in the shower and seriously misunderstood when he was told afterwards that you should separate your colours from your whites.

      Bad laundry joke, I apologise.

      Seriously though, his medical situation is 100% none of my business, but it looks a little like contact dermatitis from wearing a hat with materials/detergents that his skin disagrees with. If he weren’t the awful type of skinhead, it might not be a problem for any of us.

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      Yeh these white supremacists do seem to have oddly… Coloured skin. I totally thought the thumbnail was for a new zombie horror film before reading the title.

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        it looks like he’s wearing some other dudes face as a mask.

        Or some other dudes entire skin as a bodysuit.

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    No one was arrested? I’m not from the US. Is being an open nazi and rallying for hate speech legal?

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      I believe most States in the US draw the line at “(directly) inciting violence” or “creating a disaster” (eg. shouting “Fire!” In a crowded theatre).

      For whatever reasons, shouting “white power” and “Jews will not replace us” while waving swastika flags is not considered “inciting violence” in the US, even though the implications are very clear to everyone. This has allowed Nazis to march in the streets for decades in the US.

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        For whatever reasons

        The reason is cops and judges agree with those reasons.

        Waving nazi flags and using their slogans should be treated as a threat at all times. There is no possible way that anything nazi is not implied violence.

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          I agree, but I wanted to stick to the less disputed parts of the answer. I simply can’t do justice to the topic of US support for Nazi ideology and its extensive history, even though it is a topic well worth researching. Depressing but important, like many other things in this world.

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            At this point I just recommend listening to The War on Everyone audiobook by Robert Evans. It does a pretty great job of spelling out this countries history with fascism

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          If anyone reading this votes Democrat and stands firm in support of gun control, that Nazi piece of shit and his buddies will continue to arm up ignoring the law because said cops are on their sides and will never prosecute them; you might as well lay down and let them fuck you over until you die because you are incapable or too cowardly to arm yourself to protect your community through deterrence.

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      Is being an open nazi and rallying for hate speech legal?

      Yes. Ostensibly because of the first amendment, but mostly because cops won’t arrest their off-duty coworkers for doing shit they wholeheartedly agree with.

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        Interesting. I figured with all the fresh anti-nazism immediately after WW2 the US would have made some kind of law against this kind of thing considering just how much people at the time disliked Nazis. Maybe they just thought it wouldn’t happen in the US later on? Or the cold war threat made everyone reprioritize perhaps?

        I’m speaking and thinking from a historical lense regardless of modern politics if that wasn’t clear

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          Apparently, calling for the extermination/subjugation of whole races doesn’t qualify as “shouting fire in a crowded theatre.”

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      Is being an open nazi and rallying for hate speech legal?

      Yes. Any law making that illegal would be unconstitutional. They’re assholes, but until they do or say something that is part of commiting a crime they still have a right to free speech.

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    This happens way more often than people might think. Every time I’ve visited these idiots are standing just outside the property.

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    Why is it that every time there’s ever a new story about white supremacists the photo looks like a bunch of Neanderthals and why is there always someone with insane face tattoos?

    There are more attractive chimpanzees, how the hell can they claim to be superior.

    They’re not even white, they’re mostly red.

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    “The extremists dispersed after about two hours, and no one was arrested, because they had to get ready for their shifts at the sheriff’s office, the sheriff’s office said.”

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    as you can see this man is wearing a mask and all those tattoos prove that he is a uh… *checks notes* …government plant. a “fed” as they say.

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      “Every time someone makes me look bad by agreeing with me in public, it’s because the government is working in secret to make me look bad.” - Party of Personal Responsibility