The white gunman who killed three Black people at a Dollar General store in Jacksonville, Florida, over the weekend wore a Rhodesian army patch on his tactical vest, law enforcement sources say, a reference that has been used before during white supremacist attacks.
The patch — representing Rhodesia, a former white minority-ruled territory in southern Africa in the 1960s and ’70s that would become Zimbabwe — is yet another symbol of how the shooter, Ryan Palmeter, was racist and was influenced by racist ideology, investigators say.
Am I the only one who can’t keep track of all the symbols that these fuckwads have co-opted to use for their own bullshit identity?
The first time I saw a Rhodesian flag was on Dylan Roof’s jacket. I’ve learned a lot since then, but that’s all I really needed to know.
Seems like it would be far easier for white supremacists to just expatriate to Rhodesia.
“These immigrants are colonising the natives, we must protect EVROPA”
“Yass, white immigrants colonising African natives! Rhodesians never die!”
The way they see it, to be white is ‘civilised’ and to be black is ‘uncivilised’. That’s why the first instance is considered bad and the second is considered good. See also: Ron DeSantis and ‘positive’ outcomes of slavery.
Without mentioning how stupid it is for americans to ramble about protecting the natives (of Europe) considering what they did to theirs
You know what’s even funnier? Europeans aren’t native to Europe either. The Proto-Indo-European people likely arose in the Central Asian steppes. And they “invaded” Europe and either killed most of all the ACTUAL indigenous Europeans (jk… before non-PIE Sapiens there were the Neanderthals, and perhaps Erectus before them we still don’t know), or, get this, outbred them. And for sure interbred them out of existence.
Only the Basque remain. Maybe.
That’s all part and parcel of the same thing, kill murder the uncivilised natives and then erect cities named after ancient Greek and Roman places to show off your civilised status.
Edit: you know what, part of the lemmy migration is being able to say things as they are and rereading this comment there is something that don’t sit quite right, so let me just cross this out and write something else: there. All fixed.
56 white supremacist groups in Florida. Not a surprise. The feds need to sweep all of Central Florida because that place is a Nazi nest.
