Alt-right hopes to organize street-fighting goon squad: Is it more than macho posturing? [View all]
Alt-right hopes to organize street-fighting goon squad: Is it more than macho posturing?
Far-right fanboys are trying to organize street gangs — and the most effective way to fight back may be mockery
Amanda Marcotte Tuesday, May 2, 2017 09:00 AM CST
Kyle Chapman, known to his fans on the alt-right as “Based Stickman” for beating a leftist protester with a wooden stick at an early March pro-Trump protest in Berkeley, California, wants people to think he’s tough. In late April, Chapman went on Facebook to announce his creation of a new group of right-wing street fighters, called the Fraternal Order of Alt-Knights (FOAK), dedicated to “defense and confrontation” in the streets. You could almost hear the chest-thumping right through the computer screen.
“This organization is for those that possess the Warrior Spirit,” Chapman wrote. “The weak or timid need not apply.”
A few days after that, the Proud Boys network, a group that Vice co-founder and former Fox News contributor Gavin McInnes calls a “pro-West fraternal organization,” posted a notice about the formation of FOAK and a call for “strong minded men” who are “comfortable in fisticuffs” to join, I reached out to Chapman in hopes of seeing his “warrior spirit” for myself. Alas, I came away disappointed.
http://www.salon.com/2017/05/02/alt-right-hopes-to-organize-street-fighting-goon-squad-is-it-more-than-macho-posturing/
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