Nothing filled me with more confidence and pride than the uniform I wore

White supremacist groups may have changed over the years, but the ways they recruit and radicalize young people have stayed the same:

TEDさんの投稿 2021年1月8日金曜日

At first, Daniel found that becoming a neo-Nazi skinhead masked his emotional pain and fulfilled his need for a “stable” community. It was a place to belong and feel accepted. The strict ideology offered him false solace, and his new family’s routine of street violence filled him with the perception of power — the kind he’d seen other men around him wield. Daniel felt a semblance of control for the first time.

When I became a neo-Nazi skinhead over three decades ago, nothing filled me with more confidence and pride than the uniform I wore: a shaved head, steel-toed Dr. Martens boots with white straight laces, a black nylon bomber jacket loaded with patches and tattoos — swastikas, Celtic crosses and Viking runes — inked into my skin. Like Daniel, I wore pride on my sleeves, figuratively and literally.

 

家庭に問題がある子供が暴走族にはいって”力”と居場所を感じるみたいなもんなんかねえ、白人至上主義の仲間になるって。