Over the years, Extremist groupswhite nationalists, and militia Just like what the proud boy and the oath taker see Charlie Kirk Not their allies, but their enemies.
Kirk was deprecated Transgender people, Muslim,unmarried femaleand many more minority And advocate the Christian America in the United States center He is in every aspect of his life Their viewsa medium. For some peoplehis firmness Support the Israeli government Make Kirk a target, not a friend.
But soon after Kirk is shot deadly At an American Turnaround event at the University of Utah, these same groups quickly portrayed the incident as an attack on themselves, portraying Kirk’s death as part of the ongoing war against white Christian men. The same group was relatively quiet Friday after police announced it had been arrested A 22-year-old boy from Utah For killings that have no obvious relationship.
These groups have been relatively dormant since the mass arrest of the Capitol attack on January 6, using Kirk’s post-mortem grief as a lightning rod, a signal that they need to mobilize and act. Many of them, including the Proud Boy and the Swearing Guardian, have used Kirk’s death as a recruitment and radical tool to convince his supporters to take a more extreme worldview.
“There’s nothing to stop what’s going to happen,” Ryan Sánchez, leader of the far-right national network, said in a statement. Catch Nazi tribute on video at last year’s conservative political action conference, wrote on his telegram channel. “We are mobilizing young nationalists to defend our community from the radical left and we need your help!”
The appeal seems to be at least somewhat valid: Sánchez’s post is accompanied by a screenshot showing a $1,000 donation he received on the Christian Crodunding Platform gishendgo.
“This is the beginning of a movement that might define our country,” the donor wrote on the website. “Give it good use and clear out countries that are these crazy ideologies.”
Another donor who calls himself a “white nationalist” said: “It’s time to bring our country back to the man. Go to work!”
Assistants of far-right influencer Nick Fuentes have been mobilized. A video of Sánchez’s Kirk vigil promoted by Huntington Beach, California, shows a group of men shouting, “White people fight back.” He shares another image of himself speaking during a vigil on the Telegram channel, with the title: “Left Death.”
Videos of Huntington Beach chanting are shared among many other extremist groups, including the Anti-Communist Fighting Headquarters channel on the Telegram, which is a hub for including anti-Semitism, racism and anti-LGBTQ rhetoric, including Active clubs and National Judicial Party.
The channel’s operators highlight the usefulness of recruitment tools for such events. They said: “The guys who chant in this video may have twelve conversations, each one bringing the conservatives around us closer to us, which is more valuable than the spiral of purity on the telegram.”
