NEO NAZIS PLAY BOTH SIDES
It's called GROOMING
Florida Neo-Nazis Find Anti-Drag Mania Is a Recruitment Tool.
“We’ve just seen the largest upticks in recruitment from the drag stuff,” says Josh Nunes, leader of National Socialist Florida.
A neo-Nazi group in Florida says the right-wing hysteria about drag performances has been an effective recruitment tool.
“What we have seen is certain types of activism definitely gets interest and recruitment up. And that’s where like the drag queen shit — like everybody wants to be a part of the team shutting that down,” Josh Nunes, leader of National Socialist Florida, recently told NPR.
The NPR report describes the group laser-projecting an image of a swastika and a cross onto a high-rise building in Jacksonville, along with messages such as one to Florida’s governor reading, “Why are child friendly drag shows legal? @ Ron DeSantis.” Actually, DeSantis has been a proponent of restricting drag shows, but National Socialist Florida is trying to push him even farther.
While the far right has gotten riled up over school curricula about racial and LGBTQ+ issues, the anti-drag rhetoric has been the most effective, Nunes said. “We’ve just seen the largest upticks in recruitment from the drag stuff,” he noted.
Just a few people turned out to protest drag shows when the group first became active last year, but “it’s not uncommon to show up with 20 dudes now,” he said. “We’re hoping by the end of this year maybe we got 30 or 40 guys.”
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