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Exactly what the San Diego shooters said they were doing
January 08, 2020
The concept of “race war” is gaining popularity among white supremacists.
In July, 2019, police officers responding to a
racist graffiti incident in Baltimore County, Maryland, encountered swastikas, as well as a phrase new to them: “Race War Now.” In New York,
the DMV canceleda Queens resident’s vanity license plate in November 2018; the plate read “GTKRWN,” an acronym for “Gas the Kikes, Race War Now.” In Washington state, local authorities used the state’s “red flag” laws in October 2019 to temporarily seize the weapons of Kaleb Cole, a member of the white supremacist group Atomwaffen, whom prosecutors claimed was “
preparing for a race war.”
Some neo-Nazi groups, such as
Atomwaffen and
Feuerkrieg Division, claim their very purpose is to prepare for “race war.” Other white supremacists repeatedly reference it on podcasts or on white supremacist discussion forums such as Stormfront. The latter has featured a variety of race war-themed topics in recent years, including “They Want a Race War, Don’t They?,” “Blacks won’t win the race war,” and “When the Race War is Escalating, What Side Will You Be On?”