"88," White Power for "Heil Hitler"

[Grant Barrett]

I had no idea.

http://www.tolerance.org/news/article_hate.jsp?id=603

"Thanks to Target, the nationwide department-store chain, students
across the country may be heading back to school in hip-looking white
supremacist regalia. The retail giant is selling shorts and baseball
caps splashed with “EIGHT EIGHT” and “88” – white-power code for “Heil
Hitler,” because “h” is the eighth letter of the alphabet."

Also, there's a discussion at Metafilter which, while not academic,
does provide a good number of related links about numbers and their
meanings, which we've discussed here many times.

http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/19513

What does this mean to me, who graduated high school in 1988, and
during the high school class battles, used to shout, "88 is great!"?



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