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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThey joined the Wisconsin Proud Boys looking for brotherhood.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/06/21/proud-boys-recruitment-targets-men-looking-community/7452805002/ Berry, along with a member of the Wisconsin Proud Boys and another former recruit, told USA TODAY the group is a den of racism and antisemitism. Moving up within the group, they said, is dependent on sadistically bullying potential members and promoting white supremacist talking points.
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They joined the Wisconsin Proud Boys looking for brotherhood. (Original Post)
lkinwi
Jun 2021
OP
Sort of like the way cults target college students who are away from home and lonely.
TheBlackAdder
Jun 2021
#3
This should be a 'must read'. Eye opening look at that 'movement.' Thanks to DJT we have PB.
CurtEastPoint
Jun 2021
#4
Scrivener7
(50,912 posts)1. They found racism and bullying in the Proud Boys?? Color me shocked!!
Dumbasses.
Also, seriously, what is with the ZZ Top wannabe beards? Do they think they make them look manly? Serious question. Why has this become the style of the crazy right?
struggle4progress
(118,228 posts)2. National Brotherhood Week
TheBlackAdder
(28,167 posts)3. Sort of like the way cults target college students who are away from home and lonely.
CurtEastPoint
(18,621 posts)4. This should be a 'must read'. Eye opening look at that 'movement.' Thanks to DJT we have PB.
magicarpet
(14,119 posts)5. Yes,... Dumpster Donnie opened the flood gates for White Supremacy,..
.... Neo-Nazis,... and tooth free-drooling-red neck-Confederate-White Trash.
Now AmeriKKKa us contaminated with Fascists for generations to come. The damage he brought to the political system is incalculable,.. the SOB almost uprooted Democracy with his 1/6/2021 US Capitol Fucking Fascist stunt.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)6. Of course. And of course. Wish I could read the firewalled article,
but I imagine adds modern women to this male cabal's list of evils to put down.
CurtEastPoint
(18,621 posts)7. I didn't encounter a firewall.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)8. Just tried again. Maybe I used up my free accesses.
CurtEastPoint
(18,621 posts)9. Oh, could be. I didn't see a msg about # of articles left, etc.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)10. Me neither. Maybe I'm blackballed, like for some social media crime. :)
CurtEastPoint
(18,621 posts)13. Yes, maybe for writing 'ppl' instead of 'people.' (My fave)
lkinwi
(1,477 posts)11. Here's an interview on YouTube about the article.
Efilroft Sul
(3,578 posts)12. So, they're orcs, basically.