Using Text Analysis to Visualise a Neo-Nazi Leadership Change
The content of these Telegram channels can be visually represented as word clouds to parse differences, and similarities in common words and themes. This method distils a large volume of text into an accessible representation based on frequency of occurrence. As such it provides an informative visualisation of individuals within a group identity. As the channels are all related to the NSN it is expected that many or most of the prominent themes will be very similar, but peppered with individual differences based on individual traits.
“no heterosexual brother of the Fraternity shall masturbate more than one time in any calendar month”.
(But Why?!)
Overview
Ideology: Primarily alt lite: Misogynistic, Islamophobic, transphobic and anti-immigration. Some members espouse white supremacist and anti-Semitic ideologies and/or engage with white supremacist groups.
Membership: Unknown, likely several hundred.
Notable characteristics: Members frequently wear black and yellow Fred Perry polo shirts.
Global footprint: Proud Boys have chapters in most states and several international chapters in Britain, Norway and Australia.
Membership: Controlled by local chapter leadership and subject to initiation rituals.
Tactics: Public rallies and protests. Members have been known to engage in violent tactics; several members have been convicted of violent crimes.
Fascists fetishize “Western” philosophy. Amusingly, Locke literally calls for the brutal destruction of fascists. He’s more radical than anti-fascist activists.
“It being reasonable and just, I should have a right to destroy that which threatens me with destruction: for, by the fundamental law of nature, man being to be preserved as much as possible, when all cannot be preserved, the safety of the innocent is to be preferred…”
CHAP. III. Of the State of War
Second Treatise of Civil Government John Locke (1690)
