The South Will Rise Again Russia Is Our Friend

Explaining 'Y'all Will Not Replace Us,' 'Claret and Soil,' 'Russia is Our Friend,' and other catchphrases from torch-begetting marchers in Charlottesville.

Video taken by rally participants.

Torch-bearing white nationalists led by racist "alt-right" figure Richard Spencer once more marched in Charlottesville, Virginia, last weekend, in a repeat of their appearance on August 11, when a like polo-shirt-bedecked crowd carried tiki torches to the University of Virginia, chanting a multifariousness of slogans and far-right catchphrases.

"You Will Not Replace U.s.!" they shouted in unison Sabbatum. Later, they sang a rendition of the adopted Confederate anthem, "Dixie," and too chanted, "Russia is Our Friend!" and "The South Will Rise Once more!"

The chants even included an odd assault on a fantasy fiction character: "Harry Potter is Not Real!"

The rally occurred eight weeks after the August "Unite the Right" event that turned into a murderous melee the next twenty-four hours when an alt-right protester rammed his car into a crowd of counter-protesters, killing 1 person and maiming numerous others.

Unlike the earlier torch-bearing rally, however, which saw an estimated 1,000 marchers with torches marching through the city, Saturday's outcome only drew an estimated 40 to 50 participants.

Equally with the before rally, yet, the marching white nationalists shouted a variety of chants, all of them with very particular meanings to their move. They enjoy wide circulation inside the alt-right movement, specially at online white-nationalist forums as well as chat sites like 4chan, merely are unfamiliar to most of the general public.

Here's what they mean, starting time with the chants from the August 11 march on the Virginia campus:

Video compiled from social media sources.

• "You Will Not Replace U.s.a.!" This slogan was coined from a statement by Nathan Damigo, founder of the white-nationalist campus group Identity Evropa, who retorted to an anti-Donald Trump "He will not separate us" campaign by actor Shia LeBeouf on social media: "Shia LeBeouf, you volition non supervene upon us with your globalism." The dirge is closely related to the white-nationalist "White Genocide" meme, reflective of their fears that white people and white civilisation are under attack from multiculturalism and nonwhite races. According to the Anti-Defamation League, the slogan began appearing on white-nationalist flyers and banners in May, and has spread widely since so. (At times during the offset Charlottesville march, the chant morphed into "Jews Volition Not Supersede Us!")
• "Blood and Soil!" Possibly the virtually disturbing of all the chants heard in Charlottesville, this is the English rendition of Nazi Germany's most fervent chant, "Blut und Boden!" Originally devised as a slogan of xix^th-century German nationalists and popularized by Nazi ideologue Richard Walter Darre, the phrase is intended to invoke patriotic identification with native national identity, and congenital on a foundation of virulent anti-Semitism and racism. Information technology later became a central component of Adolf Hitler's "Lebensraum" program, seeking to expand territories occupied by Germans, that was a major cistron in the Holocaust. The slogan has been adopted by the alt-right, specially its openly neo-Nazi element, to emphasize its own nativist and eliminationist agenda.
• "White Lives Matter!" Ostensibly a retort to the anti-police-violence movement Black Lives Matter, this catchphrase very apace morphed into both a slogan and the name of an outright white-supremacist movement aimed at attacking blackness civil rights, ostensibly "dedicated to promotion of the white race and taking positive action as a united voice against bug facing our race." Numerous neo-Nazi groups effectually the country accept reshaped themselves under the "WLM" banner, and the movement was designated a hate grouping in 2017.
• "Hail Trump!" This catchphrase needs little caption, but its presence as a marching chant is significant. Donald Trump is a hero to the alt-right, where some leading figures refer to him as "Glorious Leader" and similar superlatives, in large part because he mimics their agenda and talking points, and has on numerous occasions shied away from denouncing white nationalists, including subsequently Charlottesville. Many of the Charlottesville marchers have also worn Trump'south trademark "Make America Slap-up Once again" ball caps.

At Saturday's rally, the gathering again chanted "Y'all Will Not Replace Us." The rallygoers too joined together in singing a rendition of "Dixie", the unofficial anthem of the Confederacy, reflecting their affiliations with the far-right neo-Confederate movement (as well every bit the fact that the rally occurred at the base of operations of the statue of General Robert E. Lee, slated for removal past Charlottesville city officials, the focus of the alt-right protests). Soon a diverseness of other chants were heard:

• "Russia Is Our Friend!" The alt-right has been unabashed in its open admiration of Russia'due south authoritarian strongman president, Vladimir Putin, and the nationalist agenda he has promoted both in Europe and in the U.s.a.. A number of alt-right figures, including Spencer, have well-documented connections to the Russian authorities, which also has played a major office in underwriting far-right movements in Europe. It afterwards emerged afterward the 2016 ballot that Russian federation'due south propaganda machine had a powerfully symbiotic relationship with the alt-right in spreading its credo and memes through social media during the campaign.
• "The Due south Will Rise Again!" Over again reflective of the alt-correct's neo-Confederate sympathies, this slogan dates back to the post-Ceremonious War period, when the apologist "Lost Cause" revision of the state of war'south history was in full swing, leading to the widespread (and wrong) belief that the war was primarily nearly "states rights" rather than slavery; that same motility, mostly at the turn of the 19^thursday century, too was responsible for the structure of many of the same Confederate monuments that are at present the focus of much of the alt-right recent agitation. The "Lost Cause" ideology remains popular with neo-Confederates.
• "Harry Potter Isn't Real!" This seemingly odd chant, which in many means reflects the alt-correct'due south fluency in popular culture, is directed at white nationalists' enmity towards multiculturalism, since the underlying thesis of J.K. Rowling's massively popular youth-fantasy series is virtually combating prejudice, racial and otherwise. The Potter books are often attacked at alt-right online forums and castigated for ostensibly brainwashing schoolchildren. Moreover, Rowling herself has been notably agile on social media, attacking both the alt-right and politicians associated with it, including Donald Trump.
• "We Volition Be Back!" Some other fairly self-explanatory chant — and perchance the most chilling of them all.

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Source: https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2017/10/10/when-white-nationalists-chant-their-weird-slogans-what-do-they-mean

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