Kontextmaschine

1st October 2021

Link reblogged from Marta Monica Jaramillo Restrepo AKA La Tuti with 26 notes

Neo-Nazi Music Festivals Are Funding Violent Extremism in Europe →

the fascinating part about this is where they explain that theres apparently a bitter dispute in the nazi scene over whether Nazi Rap is a legitimate recruiting tool
Experts say the far-right rock scene tends to draw an older crowd, with the style of music generally holding scant appeal to a younger audience. To that end, a new generation of right-wing extremists has branched out into far-right rap, attempting to harness a more popular and contemporary musical genre as a vehicle to spread their ideology.
That, in turn, has sparked an ongoing debate within far-right circles over whether it should, or could ever, embrace “Nazi rap.”
“There’s one faction that says… it’s a Black tradition. And they don’t want to have anything to do with it,” said Hindrichs.
“There’s another faction that says, ‘OK, but hip hop is the most popular genre in Europe in the charts for the youth, and so we have to deal with that.’
“It’s half and half, I would say,”

Back in the mid-2010s I was in touch with some guys who wanted my insight on forming intentional communities and one said he had land in California’s Central Valley in a day’s range to both LA and SF where he could train up a “security” force of based stickmen, I pointed out that if you had open land in weekend reach of both and a trained security force the way to generate resources was as music festival grounds