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Following a February 7th neo-Nazi rally, residents of Lincoln Heights, a majority-Black Ohio town, formed an armed Safety and Watch Program to protect against hate groups.

The rally, where participants waved swastikas and shouted slurs, received little police intervention, sparking fears of future threats when no arrests or identifications were made during the incident.

Volunteers now patrol bus stops and neighborhoods. "I've never felt safer as a Black man in my community," said spokesperson Daronce Daniels.

The historically underserved and self-governing community shows strong support for the initiative with yard signs and sees this as a continuation of its legacy of self-reliance and community defense.

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[–] ragingdachshund@lemm.ee 29 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

So the white sherif is more worried about black folks wearing masks and carry assault rifles than the neo Nazis wearing masks and carrying weapons? And not identifying them?

I understand cops don’t want to arrest their friends, but this is pretty bad, even by those standards.

[–] Alloi@lemmy.world 13 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

its almost as if the cops are the ones behind the masks, the way they are protecting them.....

[–] ovalofsand@lemmy.world 7 points 16 hours ago

Some of those that work forces...

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 33 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Getting organized is good.

Individuals just yolo shooting Nazis and CEOs is kind of heart warming, but real power I think comes from organizing.

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[–] urfavlaura@lemmy.ml 11 points 16 hours ago

close enough

welcome back Black Panthers

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 48 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

The resurrection of the Black Panthers

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 33 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

When it's necessary, it's necessary

[–] Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works 6 points 20 hours ago

Unfortunate….

But true.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 18 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

May as well. We're well on our way to being third-world anyway

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 10 points 18 hours ago

"shit-hole cuntry"

[–] Montreal_Metro@lemmy.ca 11 points 17 hours ago

KKK aren't the only ones who can run militias.

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 64 points 1 day ago (4 children)

The rally, where participants waved swastikas

Why isn't this enough to shot them in the face?

Millions died at war to stop swastika-waving scum, and the world united to never allow this to happen again, so why is American society suddenly ok with letting them terrorize communities?

[–] CalipherJones@lemmy.world 31 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

Almost all of the WW2 vets are gone man. I worry that the far right resurgence around the world is being allowed to happen because people are simply ignorant to the horror of WW2. I remember talking to someone younger than me about Adolf Hitler and the Holocaust. He didn't seem to think much of the Holocaust which I found disturbing. I started bringing up the numbers and I could see the shock in his face. He genuinely didn't seem to grasp just how many people were murdered because of fascism.

[–] Demonmariner@lemmy.world 14 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

History classes in the US cover WW2, but barely touch on the causes of WW2.

[–] CalipherJones@lemmy.world 26 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

History classes in the US are patriot washed to convince soon to be laborers that they're living in the greatest country to ever possibly exist.

[–] stringere@sh.itjust.works 7 points 18 hours ago

"People's History of the United States" and "Lies My Teacher Told Me" were eye opening to the omissions from my primary education. "Trail of Tears" should be required reading.

[–] JDPoZ@lemmy.world 9 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Look at major wars and start going backwards in history… and then do the math of how long before that major war a previous major war was.

WW2… 80-ish years ago from today Civil War… 1860s - about 80 or so years before that American Revolution - 1770s - about 80 to 90 years before that

There seems to be a rough pattern indicating that once the generation scarred by a major war is gone… so seems to go the world order that was in place beforehand.

[–] CalipherJones@lemmy.world 9 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I get it in the past because the information was simply not accessible for most people. Nowadays there is no excuse for ignorance. It takes a 5 minute google search to get a taste of the inhumanity of history. Everyone should be willing to put in at least 5 minutes man.

[–] tacobellhop@midwest.social 7 points 19 hours ago

People should be teaching their own children these truths. The schools have been compromised.

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[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 19 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

Because the Venn diagram of those waving swastikas and those enforcing the law is nearly a circle.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 9 points 20 hours ago

Some of those that burn crosses???

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[–] boaratio@lemmy.world 275 points 1 day ago (2 children)

The cops didn't didn't show up for the same reason that you never see Hannah Montana and Miley Cyrus at the same time.

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 72 points 1 day ago (8 children)

They were already there! Just in a different uniform

[–] Dragonstaff@leminal.space 37 points 1 day ago

Good news: Law enforcement has operatives highly placed in every domestic terror organization.

Bad news: they are not informants.

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[–] HighFructoseLowStand@lemm.ee 7 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

This will be the thing that finally gets us gun control.

[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 5 points 16 hours ago

Forget it. If you can't imagine the government rounding up all the stockpiles of weapons from right wingers around the country, you should be against any further gun control. Our enemies are already well armed. Don't make it harder for the rest of us.

[–] kameecoding@lemmy.world 29 points 23 hours ago (2 children)
[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 10 points 21 hours ago

Oh, that was just perfect. Thank you.

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 120 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Wanna bet this community sees a temporary decrease in crime?

Hell, I personally would feel safer as an opponent of facism there too.

History shows us that this will not be tolerated for long though, regardless of the constitutional right. I hope this idea is picked up elsewhere. There are a lot of places that could benefit from running their own regulated militia: cities, towns, and neighborhoods.

[–] Eezyville@sh.itjust.works 76 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You wanna bet they're gonna make some laws now to restrict them because black people are exercising their 2nd amendment rights.

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 41 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That's the part I'm curious about. California did enact a law in 1967 requiring permits to openly carry loaded firearms, but the Black Panthers didn't just go away.

Anything enacted at a federal level will get pushback, and I'm very curious about how it will be constructed to avoid pissing off their support. In either way, I would presume that people aren't just going to passively hand over their guns. We know how that ends up.

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[–] fuck_u_spez_in_particular@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I mean I can certainly imagine, why.

But this feels so strange, reading as European...

[–] GrumpyDuckling@sh.itjust.works 3 points 16 hours ago

Ask someome in their 90's if it feels strange.

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[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 5 points 16 hours ago

Watch gun control laws suddenly appear.

[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 18 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Are the fucking neo-Nazis showing up in Tesla Cyber trucks? They fucking asswipes should be.

[–] Liberal_Ghost@lemmy.zip 6 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

I would wadger to guess that the majority of Neo-Nazis that show up to rallies like that on not in a tax bracket that could afford a cybertruck 😆

[–] ragingdachshund@lemm.ee 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

They roll in the back of rented U-Haul trucks like the warriors they are 🫠

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[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 81 points 1 day ago (7 children)

If the cops didn’t do shit when the Nazis came, why do they think the cops won’t fuck them over if they try to stop the Nazis?

[–] CompostMaterial@lemmy.world 131 points 1 day ago (14 children)

Cowards tend to back down when confronted on equal grounds. This is essentially a resurgence of the Black Panther movement, which worked quite well doing the exact same thing.

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[–] whaleiam@lemm.ee 31 points 1 day ago

We need these in every neighbor hood now

[–] Doctor_Satan@lemmy.world 3 points 16 hours ago

Wake up, babe! New Republican gun restrictions are about to drop!

[–] xc2215x@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

Good move for the black people.

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