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The Southern Poverty Law Center has produced a quick guide to the flags of thefar right that were spotted in Charlottesville over the weekend. Take a look and see the symbols that white supremacists were waiving:
White nationalist demonstrators walk through town after their rally was declared illegal near Lee Park in Charlottesville, Va., Saturday, Aug. 12, 2017. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
Although not specifically mentioned by the SPLC report, the Confederate flag appeared in many photos of the white supremacist protests in Charlottesville over the weekend.
White nationalists rally at Emancipation Park in Charlottesville. Photo by Evelyn Hockstein for The Washington Post.
This symbol, according to the SPLC, is called the Schwarze Sonne, or Black Sun. It's become a symbol of several far-right, neo Nazi groups. A version of the Schwarze Sonne is inlayed into the marble floor of the Castle Wewelsburg, the castle that Heinrich Himmler made the home of the SS during the reign of the Third Reich, the SPLC says.
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This is another version of theSchwarze Sonne. It's used by the Vanguard America-Texas, says the SPLC, and incorporates the star of Texas into the middle of the black sun symbol.
From Southern Poverty Law Center website.
This sign, part of a poster advertising the "Unite the Right" rally, was drawn from Benjamin Franklin's famous "Join, or Die" cartoon. According to SPLC, the groups whose flags are denied here include, from left to right, "Kekistani", "Anti-Communist," "Libertarian," "Nationalist, "Indetitarian/Identity Evropa," "Southern Nationalist," "National Socialist" and "Alt-Right." Included in the Nationalist Socialist flags are Traditionalist Worker Party and Vanguard America.
A quick primer on these groups or terms:
Vanguard America is a white supremacist group that opposes multiculturalism and believes America is an exclusively white nation, according to the Anti-Defamation League.
"Using a right-wing nationalist slogan, Blood and Soil, VA romanticizes the notion that people with 'white blood' have a special bond with 'American soil," says the Anti-Defamation league website.
The above flag is associated with the group, according to SPLC.
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Kekistani:
Kekistan is a fictional country, occupied by kekcstanis who worship the god Kek. Often associated with the alt-right mascot "Pepe the Frog," it's a fiction used by the alt-right to troll liberals and signal their leanings.
The national flag of Kekistan, said theSouthern Poverty Law Center, "mimics a German Nazi war flag, with the Kek logo replacing the swastika and the green replacing the infamous German red. A 4chan logo is emblazoned in the upper left hand corner. Alt-righters are particularly fond of the way the banner trolls liberals who recognize its origins."
Source: Southern Poverty Law Center website
Identitarian: According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, several small American hate groups are spreading variations of identitarianism, a movement that preaches opposition to multiculturalism, and which the organization says often takes fate form of anti-Muslim xenophobia.
"Put simply, identitarians want regions and nations that are different from one another but at the same time culturally and ethnically homogenous within their borders," the SPLC website says.
Identity Evropa, founded in Oakdale, Calif., focuses on recruiting college-age, white students , "targeting disaffected young men by branding itself as a fraternity and social club," the SPLC says.
Ben, a 21-year-old KKK member from Harrison, Arkansas, attends the rally at Emancipation Park in Charlottesville, Va. Photo by Evelyn Hockstein for The Washington Post.
Southern Nationalist:
According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, white nationalist groups espouse white supremacist or white separatist ideologies, often focusing on the alleged inferiority of non-whites.
Groups listed in a variety of other categories - Ku Klux Klan, neo-Confederate, neo-Nazi, racist skinhead, and Christian Identity - could also be fairly described as "white nationalist."
Al.com reports that a leading Southern nationalist group,the Alabama-based League of the South, still advocates for secession from the union.Al.com reports:
The League of the South's longtime president, retired university professor Michael Hill of Killen, Alabama, posted a message in July that began, "Fight or die white man" and went on to say Southern nationalists seek "nothing less than the complete reconquest and restoration of our patrimony -- the whole, entire South."
Source: Southern Poverty Law Center website
This is the Southern Nationalist flag, says SPLC. It has some variants:
This is another variation of the Southern Nationalist flag
From SPLC website: This flag is the flag of the National Socialist Movement, which it says is the oldest National Socialist group in the United States.
National socialism is also called Nazism. The National Socialist Movement website spells it out, demanding"the union of all Whites into a greater America"... and "Only those of pure White blood, whatever their creed, may be members of the nation. Non-citizens may live in America only as guests and must be subject to laws for aliens. Accordingly, no Jew or homosexual may be a member of the nation."
From Southern Poverty Law Center website
According to the Anti-Defamation League, the Traditionalist Youth Network, founded in May 2013, is a white supremacist group that spouts a racist interpretation of Christianity.
Its members "often speak out against multiculturalism and are anti-Semitic," the ADL website says. "TYN claims to be for 'diversity' but defines diversity as each ethnic group promoting its own heritage and traditions while living apart from each other."
Source: Southern Poverty Law Center website.
Like the Traditionalist Youth Network, the Traditionalist Worker Party "is a white nationalist group that advocates for racially pure nations and communities and blames Jews for many of the worlds problems. Even as it claims to oppose racism, saying every race deserves its own lands and culture, the group is intimately allied with neo-Nazi and other hardline racist organizations that espouse unvarnished white supremacist views," says the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Source: Southern Poverty Law Center website
This is the flag of the American Guard, which the Southern Poverty Law Center describes as "hardcore nationalists dedicated to physically opposing leftists at events and rallies." Its ranks include aging and former racist skinheads and a at least one klan member, says the SPLC.
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