[Ads-l] Boogaloo

[Ben Zimmer]

Since the Economist piece may be paywalled, here are two other recent
articles about the appropriation of "boogaloo" by right-wing extremists:

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2020/05/31/864402190/who-owns-boogaloo
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/far-right-hawaiian-print-shirts-why-protesters-boogaloo-racist-a9539776.html

On Tue, Jun 2, 2020 at 7:10 AM Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> https://news.yahoo.com/downtown-dc-burns-after-another-night-of-protests-and-provocation-near-the-white-house-121746636.html
>
>
> "Yahoo News spotted a white man in Lafayette Park wearing a mask, a large
> tactical backpack and a Hawaiian shirt, which has become a symbol of
> right-wing accelerationists
> <
> https://www.economist.com/united-states/2020/05/23/why-some-protesters-in-america-wear-hawaiian-shirts
> >
> who
> hope to spark a race war they have termed the 'Boogaloo'."
>
>
>

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