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Author	gis_enjoyer
Comment	In America the people who are willing to drive into town and post shit like this, or join fascist groups, tend to overwhelmingly be petite bourgeois. The people who stormed the American Capitol building or showed up to the infamous “Unite the Right” rally or were not poor subsistence farmers, more like store owners and exurbanites. Your avg 60,000 dollar truck jet ski realtor white picket fence megachurch gun collection type guy. We also have active Nazi groups in certain regions (northeast, PNW, etc) and they’re typically on the more well off side as well. I know plenty of poor rural white people who believe in this stuff sure but they’re rarely activists about it and would rarely join up with a fascist group. The reason I mention the US here is because it was the origin of BLM and also its resultant reactionary backlash. Barely anybody posting this stuff in the US is a contextless disaffected poor white person, they know exactly what they are doing and their sympathies typically lay with white supremacy. Europe has a growing white supremacist movement as well and they’re even better at hiding under layers of dog whistles and implications than the American variety. I’m unfamiliar with your context in Scotland and the broader UK but our countries are more similar than they are different much to the chagrin and disbelief of many.
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Created	Sun 31st Jul 2022 5:29pm
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In America the people who are willing to drive into town and post shit like this, or join fascist groups, tend to overwhelmingly be petite bourgeois. The people who stormed the American Capitol building or showed up to the infamous “Unite the Right” rally or were not poor subsistence farmers, more like store owners and exurbanites. Your avg 60,000 dollar truck jet ski realtor white picket fence megachurch gun collection type guy. We also have active Nazi groups in certain regions (northeast, PNW, etc) and they’re typically on the more well off side as well.

I know plenty of poor rural white people who believe in this stuff sure but they’re rarely activists about it and would rarely join up with a fascist group.

The reason I mention the US here is because it was the origin of BLM and also its resultant reactionary backlash. Barely anybody posting this stuff in the US is a contextless disaffected poor white person, they know exactly what they are doing and their sympathies typically lay with white supremacy. Europe has a growing white supremacist movement as well and they’re even better at hiding under layers of dog whistles and implications than the American variety.

I’m unfamiliar with your context in Scotland and the broader UK but our countries are more similar than they are different much to the chagrin and disbelief of many.