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helplesslyselfish OP t1_jdellri wrote

> Residents in Port Richmond awoke Monday to find they’d become the site of a white supremacist recruitment campaign. Hundreds of stickers with racist, antisemitic messages were plastered to poles throughout the neighborhood, including its main shopping corridor, Richmond Street. Some stickers depicted Nazi symbols and ethnic caricatures; others supported Kanye West and his flagrant comments about Jewish people. According to a sweeping new report from the Anti-Defamation League, these incidents are becoming disturbingly more common. Figures from the anti-hate organization showed sharp rises in antisemitic activity nationwide last year. Pennsylvania saw a 65% increase.

65% is fucking crazy! Where are these people coming from?

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PhillyPanda t1_jdenq4z wrote

Replying to helplesslyselfish (#2,324,281)

2021 looks to be an outlier in PA specifically from the last 5 years, tho still an increase (109 incidents in ‘19, 101 in ‘20, 69 in ‘21 and 114 in ‘22). Still not a good trend, the surge seemed to happen in 2017 (not surprising), and now we’re right back there.

I sincerely doubt this captures even a small fraction of actual incidents.

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dannygunz t1_jdg9v6f wrote

It's weird I remember at all sorts of public events growing up (early 2000s) like parades or shows there would always be people handing out leaflets for dumb shit like white supremacists, naturalists, conspiracies, but no one ever paid any mind and would just throw it away... now if that sort of thing happened it would end up in the news.

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PM_Me_Your_WorkFiles t1_jdh8fe0 wrote

Saw a guy walking down the schuylkill river path spray painting each individual light pole. Didn’t look like he was writing anything, just dotting out something on each pole. I asked what he was doing, turned out he was X-ing out swastikas stickers someone had put along the entire river path.

So weird to me that Nazis can find a foothold here.

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MaoZedongs t1_jdh97fr wrote

Replying to PM_Me_Your_WorkFiles (#2,333,281)

Super weird, isn’t it?

The white nationalists always seem to do their heaviest recruiting in areas with large populations of POC and strong progressive politics. You never see them where there’s a preponderance of white people.

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MaoZedongs t1_jdh9g06 wrote

The agitprop will continue until your faith in their system is restored.

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dotcom-jillionaire t1_jdhb76v wrote

Replying to PM_Me_Your_WorkFiles (#2,333,281)

like most crime things in philly, the scum putting those flyers up are coming in from the suburbs and nj to spread their hate. these slackjaws literally believe a majority of the public are sympathetic to their cause and seeing these messages will help activate others to white supremacy.

none too bright!

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RustyShackleford454 t1_jdiig5y wrote

Dude has waited all winter to leave his mom's basement to post these stickers.

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Flyersdude17 t1_jdj4th1 wrote

No cameras of these scumbags putting these out?

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theaccountant856 t1_jdj7ksi wrote

The city goes 83% blue every year and I believe we are at 60% POC? The chances you have a community of white nationalists is very very small. A more likely scenario are agitators who are trying to stoke racial division. Especially factoring in no one knows who any of these people are. No one has ever seen them do anything. And all they are doing is putting up signs pictures etc and not doing any property damage that would result in increased inspection. Pretty obvious to me this is a false flag 🤌🏼

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theaccountant856 t1_jdjioc0 wrote

Replying to PhillyPanda (#2,342,424)

So Zach joined a hate group that was literally an FBI psy op. A true American classic. Again the chances that a legit white nationalist community exists in Philadelphia out of all places is so incredibly small that the FBI has to basically orchestrate the whole thing.

Most likely a gov psy op used for false flags. We’ve been here before

Edit: who even cares about this Zach dudes he’s not even mentioned in the article and there’s just as much evidence that you put up the stickers vs the proud boys who are all on trial lol

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palerthanrice t1_jdk9jfi wrote

Replying to theaccountant856 (#2,341,285)

I feel like it’s just one or two dickheads from Jersey. I looked up one of the websites and it’s insanely rinky-dink.

It’s one photo of five guys next to a flag, then all stock photos. They have a tab labeled “stickers and flyers” and it’s literally one jpeg of a sheet of different designs all spliced together, and they say something like “feel free to print these out!” Like they won’t even send you a fucking sticker, you gotta make it yourself haha.

And to your point about a false flag, idk about that, but the whole website is desperately steering you towards their contact form, where you need to give a lot of personal info. Not sure what type of white supremacist organization would ask for a full name and multiple ways of contact, so that’s a bit suspicious.

So it could be a honeypot, a false flag, or genuine fucking idiots, but either way, it doesn’t deserve an inquirer article because if somehow this really is legit, this is the exact type of attention they’re looking for.

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Nanis149 t1_jdlefre wrote

I saw one of these once in Rhawnhurst. Normally, people would chalk it up to the Northeast just being the Northeast, bur this wasn't somewhere like Parkwood, this was in Rhawnhurst, a neighborhood that has historically had a large Jewish community. This was very obviously deliberately placed there.

Did I scribble over it a lot with a marker to make it unreadable? yes. Am I still super worried despite that? quite

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