"88," White Power for "Heil Hitler"

[Ed Keer]

A little while ago, I heard a rumor that the pop band
311 was a white supremacist group because the name
meant KKK since K is the 11th letter of the alphabet.

Ed

--- Duane Campbell <dcamp911 at JUNO.COM> wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Aug 2002 16:49:26 -0400 Grant Barrett
>
> > "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."
>
> This looks like the liberal counterpart of the
> religious right's
> obsession with 666.
>
> D


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