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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[–] 63 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Why is the top of his head a different shade than his face?

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  • [–] 65 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    That's where the top of his skull was opened and the brain replaced with a racist bowl of jello.

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  • [–] 30 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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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    [–] 30 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I wonder who is throwing money behind these folk.

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    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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  • [–] 44 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago* (8 children)

    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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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    To me it always seemed weird how saying "we should eradicate jews by our own hand" or "we should kill this jew" would probably not be okay because of inciting violence, but saying "we should eradicate jews... Through the law/state" instead is perfectly acceptable and not inciting violence.

    Is one level of indirection really enough to make it okay? The end result is the same.

    This is also why such free speech has problems. If you're the one spewing that shit it's all fine and dandy for you, but if you're the targeted minority what can you do, exactly? Certainly you cannot legally physically defend yourself! You're just destined to have to defend your literal existence with speech, like jeez. It's so lopsided.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    It doesn't make sense when you look at it through the lens of "violence is a bad thing", which is what we're generally led to believe it is about. It does make sense when you look at it through the lens of "xenophobia personally benefits/ed me and my other friends currently in power and I would like to keep it that way but I don't want to do the dirty work myself".

    Unfortunately most places have a history of the people in power exploiting other groups of people for their benefit, and this is just one way in which it manifests. It feels weird because we know it isn't congruent with what we're taught about how people in a society should behave.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago

    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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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    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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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Just like Walt would have wanted.

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    [–] 22 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    They still differentiate between Neo-Nazis and Republicans there?

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago

    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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    [–] 11 points 2 years ago

    They're probably pissed they can't fit on the Dumbo ride.

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