In the shadow of New York City, the biggest and one of the bluesiest cities in America, Nassau and Suffolk Counties have seen a growth of far-right /anti-government groups. These groups designated by the Southern Poverty Law Center as anti-government include a Nassau County chapter of the Proud Boys, Loud Majority (active in both Suffolk and Nassau Counties), Tactical Civics Mutual Assistance Group (Nassau County), and Moms for Liberty. From truck parades donning Trump flags while promoting conspiracies of immigrants voting illegally to so-called concerned mothers at school board meetings trying to ban any material that is, in their view, defined as White apologetic or a reference to LGBQT, have many believing this movement came out of nowhere.
But this right-wing culture war has not popped out of thin air. The ultra-conservatism and xenophobia of Nassau and Suffolk are baked into its development of the suburbs as far back as 100 years ago. Even though the term Great Replacement Theory was coined over a decade ago, the fear of replacing a White Protestant majority with who they view as an inferior group of immigrants set to shift demographics against the dominant majority has been a recurring theme in the region’s history. https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/02/11/far-right-and-anti-government-groups-gain-a-foot-hold-in-new-york-city-suburbs/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#35174): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/35174 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/111129280/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: marxmail+ow...@groups.io Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
