The boogaloo movement is a far-right, anti-government, and extremist political movement in the United States. Adherents say they are preparing for, or seek to incite, a second American Civil War. Since 2019, at least 31 people affiliated with the movement have been charged with crimes, including the killings of two security and law enforcement officers.
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The boogaloo movement is a far-right, anti-government, and extremist political movement in the United States. Adherents say they are preparing for, or seek to incite, a second American Civil War. The movement has also been described as a militia. Since 2019, at least 31 people affiliated with the movement have been charged with crimes, including the killings of two security and law enforcement officers. In mid-2020, several companies acted to limit the movement’s activities and visibility on their social media and chat platforms. Participants have appeared at in-person events including anti-lockdown protests and the George Floyd protests. Heavily armed members are often identified by their attire of Hawaiian shirts and military fatigues. They attend protests heavily armed and wearing tactical gear, and sometimes identify themselves by wearing Hawaiian shirts along with military fatigued. They revere the current federal government as illegitimate, while remaining deeply patriotic. In their view, current US lawmakers are the equivalent of occupying British forces during the revolutionary war. Among the merchandise for sale online are images of George Washington’ with a modern-style AR-15 rifle, and the stars replaced with an igloo. Some are white supremacist or neo-Nazi groups who believe that the impending unrest will be a race war. There are also groups that condemn racism and white supremacy, although attempts by some individual elements of the movement to support anti-racist groups and movements such as Black Lives Matter have been met with wariness and skepticism as researchers are unsure if they are genuine or meant to obscure the movement’s actual objectives.
The term alludes to the 1984 cult sequel film Breakin’ 2: Electric Boogaloos. The boog aloo movement has created logos and other imagery incorporating igloo snow huts and Hawaiian prints based on these derivations. It has also used other imagery popular among the far- right such as the Pepe the Frog meme. It is also used to refer to violent uprisings against the federal government or left-wing political opponents, often anticipated to follow government confiscation of firearms. The specific ideology of each group varies and views on topics such as race differ widely. Some have compared it to the militia movement of the 1990s and 2000s, stating that it is similar to the federal militia of the 1980s and 1990s. In the past, the movement has been compared to the patriot movement of 2000s and the patriot militia of 2000. It also has been called a militia by the Anti-Defamation League, a researcher at the Center on Extremism of the Center for the Study of Radicalism and Anti-Terrorism, and by the Southern Poverty Law Center, a group that studies extremism in the U.S. and Europe. It was used on the imageboard website 4chan, an imageboard known for the posting of illegal and offensive content, since 2012, but it did not come to widespread attention until late 2019. It became a verbal template appended to a topic as a signal of pejorative parody following the film’s release.
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