12-17-2019, 05:14 PM
(12-17-2019, 05:03 PM)treee Wrote: It seems almost like a sick recruitment strategy:
- Associate a beloved past time (the circle-punch game) with their abhorrent ideology.
- Attempt to frame the the anger of the tainting of the past-time, at the people who are speaking out against neo-nazism instead of the neo-nazis themselves.
This probably works most effectively on young teens who haven't fully developed their critical thinking abilities yet.
I polled my class. 2/3rds knew the game. Maybe 2 or 3 heard of the white supremacist association.