In light of the latest Boogaloo murder news, may I just take a moment to highlight and emphasize the fact that the violent, openly pro-terror Nazi I just identified from the BLM counter-protest down in Tucson uses "Boog Fuhrer" as his alias https://twitter.com/gwensnyderPHL/status/1272939904419401728

As I've said before, "boogaloo" isn't actually a movement.

It's an event (civil war, often specifically race war) that a wide range of far right movements reference regularly.

Those movements range from some online libertarians to militia to accelerationist Nazis, like Sean.

That distinction may seem academic, but there's a difference between survivalist types who think the boog is going to happen and are just gritting their teeth and hunkering down, and accelerationist types who want to accelerate the timeline and start the boog ASAP.

There are boog-posting survivalists who are also accelerationists, but not every boog-posting survivalist is a boog accelerationist, and vice versa.

Also, Nazis referencing the boog, accelerationist or survivalist, are far more likely to be hanging out with other Nazis than they are to be hanging out with either accelerationists or survivalists referencing the boog within militia movements.

There's obviously some shared ecosystem, but if you describe "boogaloo" as a movement, you miss the fact that the boog is more an interest that different movements share to varying levels than a unifying pursuit in and of itself.

I'm not saying there aren't spaces where boog accelerationists from different far right movements swap ideas/tips, but again, those spaces aren't what those people would consider their movement, their political ideology.

Again, they're interest groups.

Boog accelerationist Nazis are HIGHLY unlikely to go running around with patches based on the U.S. flag.

They aren't into U.S. nationalism (civic nationalism); they're into race nationalism.

They think this sort of stuff is for cucks.

And Nazis, accelerationist or otherwise, are highly unlikely to welcome someone nonwhite Latinx-presenting (or with a name like "Carrillo") into their midst.

That doesn't mean they don't want to boog just as hard as a militia movement type accelerationist like Carrillo.

That goes both ways.

Militia guys usually tend to be quite eager to distance themselves from swastika Nazis; their nationalism is still usually racist, but it's a civic nationalism that presents as more culturally racist than as "kill the [minority identity]" racist.

It's critically important that people investigating far right extremism understand this, because if you base your investigation on a notion that boog Nazis and boog militia and boog libertarians all hang out together as a "Boogaloo movement," you'll never get anywhere.

Even then, if you can't tell the difference between a survivalist Nazi talking about SURVIVING the boog and an accelerationist Nazi talking about ACCELERATING the boog, you'll waste a ton of time trying to find non-existent proof that boog survivalists = boog accelerationists.

And if you're trying to track boog accelerationists-- the guys interested in doing terror to MAKE the race war happen-- you'll never get anywhere if you think you'll find all the boog terror dudes from all these divergent far right movements hanging out together & making plans.

Once again, there is no "boogaloo movement."

The boog is an event that a whole bunch of far right movements (militia, Nazi, etc) discuss and debate almost entirely within the bounds of their own movements.

Only *some* in each movement want the boog to happen.

Within each of each of those movements' subsets hoping for the boog to happen, there is an even smaller subset actively wanting to ACCELERATE the boog.

Those accelerationists may try & recruit/co-opt accelerationists from other far movements, but that's poaching, not solidarity.