What is the 'boogaloo?' How online calls for a violent uprising are hitting the mainstream

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

An anti-government movement that advocates for a violent uprising targeting liberal political opponents and law enforcement has moved from the fringes of the internet into the mainstream in recent months and surged on social media, according to a group of researchers that tracks hate groups.

The movement, which says it wants a second Civil War organized around the term "boogaloo," now includes groups on mainstream internet platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and Reddit as well as fringe websites including 4chan, according to a report released Tuesday night by the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI), an independent non-profit of scientists and engineers that tracks and reports on misinformation and hate speech across social media.

While calls for organized and targeted violence in the form of a new Civil War have previously circulated among some hate groups, the emergence of the term "boogaloo" appeared to be a new and discrete movement. NCRI researchers analyzed more than 100 million social media posts and comments and found that through the use of memes — inside jokes commonly in the form of images — extremists have pushed anti-government and anti-law enforcement messages across social media platforms. They have also organized online communities with tens of thousands of members, some of whom have assembled at real-world events.

The report "represents a breakthrough case study in the capacity to identify cyber swarms and viral insurgencies in nearly real time as they are developing in plain sight," wrote John Farmer, a former New Jersey attorney general and current director of the Miller Center for Community Protection and Resilience at Rutgers University, in the report's forward.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/what-is-the-boogaloo-how-online-calls-for-a-violent-uprising-are-hitting-the-mainstream/ar-BB109NHA?li=BBnb7Kz

[nobuddy]

1. How dare they

associate with one the greatest movies ever.

[PubliusEnigma]

2. Helter Skelter?

[tavernier]

12. My first thought.

[ZenDem]

3. They all need a hobby.

This is one of the reasons I don't believe we should abandon FB, Twitter or any social media.

I've only reported a few posts that I thought were overtly racist or called for violence, but at least I was there to do the reporting. Leaving social media to the nuts and expecting the outlets to 'self-police' is a huge mistake.

[dustyscamp]

14. 1+

[Runningdawg]

4. I lurk on some pretty radical R wing forums, never heard the term

But they love to talk about the civil war that's coming and make as many veiled threats directed toward celebrities and political figures as they can get away with.
A few have taken it further...

"Brandon Howard, chairman of the Hopewell, Va. Republican Party, stood outside the home of Democratic Virginia Del. Mark Levine with a semiautomatic rifle in a move the lawmaker says was meant to intimidate him.

“He stood outside my kitchen window for a couple hours or so. He made it very clear that I was just to be the first [lawmaker targeted], that he could find all of our homes ...That we should kiss our wives goodbye, kiss our husbands goodbye, kiss our children goodbye because he would use the business end of his gun," Levine said."

[link:https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/483624-protester-brought-semiautomatic-gun-to-stand-outside-virginia-delegates?fbclid=IwAR19c8HirAHDm8r3qcy2hJaBD8SS-qMZon7Cd6eJu-p_H38y3BhuRUyuQpc|

They get bolder every day.

[Crunchy Frog]

20. I hope he called the police.

[MineralMan]

5. Well, in opposition to the "boogaloo," I suggest we have a "hootenanny."

[Floyd R. Turbo]

7. That'd be a shindig!

[bluecollar2]

21. My wife said

I'm not allowed to get involved with the nanny...

[MineralMan]

22. Smart wife!

[Blue_Tires]

6. I give less than a rat's ass...

Right-wingers have been calling for violent reprisals for decades before they could say anything behind the easy anonymity of the internet. It's nothing but a bunch of loud assed hot air.

[VOX]

10. It only takes one RWNJ to cause significant loss of life.

And Trump has done everything but specifically ask his sub-human base to “take care of things.”

[Blue_Tires]

13. That's why we arm ourselves, problem solved

the RWNJs only get big ballsacks when they KNOW their intended victims are unarmed or lightly guarded...

Enough of those motherfuckers get shot and they'll get the message.

But like I said, it's all noise and hot air from them so I'm not even worried.

[msongs]

8. back off boogaloo.....

[ploppy]

9. It will

be a dance riot in the streets when the nut jobs decide to boogaloo. Sort of like a dance party.

[eShirl]

11. this the only boogaloo

[Brother Buzz]

16. No, there's another Boog Alou

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1206&pid=1747

[abqtommy]

15. I could say that a reference to "boogaloo" is "funky" but both terms vary in meaning

depending on the user...

[gratuitous]

17. Oh, pshaw!

Why talk about that internet noise when a rightwing provocateur got hit with a milk shake. A milk shake, people! And another provocateuse had a cup of water thrown into her car as she was fleeing the fight she wanted to start.

[Midnight Writer]

18. What an image!

My 300# gun humping neighbor, warpainted face, camo sweatpants, waddling after me, guns ablazing, screaming "Boogaloo!".

[eleny]

19. So right wingers finally want to learn to dance?

Better late then never...

[Hekate]

23. What the HELL is wrong with these animals?! They're getting every damn thing they want already!

Gods help us

[BigDemVoter]

24. It used to be that this was called sedition, and it was illegal.

We learned that in Civics class back in the 1970s. . .