Groups of neo-Nazis and white supremacists spread antisemitic, white supremacist and anti-LGBTQ messages outside Disney World and in the nearby Orlando, Florida, area Saturday in the latest examples of rising antisemitism in the U.S., officials said.

About 15 people wearing clothing and bearing flags emblazoned with Nazi insignia demonstrated outside the entrance to the Disney Springs shopping center, said the Orange County Sheriff’s Office, which said deputies were dispatched around 10:40 a.m.

According to the Anti-Defamation League, a civil rights organization dedicated to countering extremism, participants carried antisemitic, white supremacist and anti-LGBTQ flags and signs. The group consisted of members of the neo-Nazi groups Order of the Black Sun, Aryan Freedom Network and 14 First, a now disbanded group that has been absorbed into the National Socialist Movement, the largest neo-Nazi group in the U.S., according to the ADL.

    • @kromem
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      111 year ago

      In many ways, this comment shows just how impotent the social right has become.

      It used to be the guy at the top of the company that was a racist POS, and now it’s people standing outside the gates lamenting the ‘woke’ corporation.

      That’s quite the progress in a century.

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        21 year ago

        It just goes to show that being racist only really limits your market appeal.

        All the woke companies have just realised that everyone’s money is as good as anybody else’s, but it’s better if it’s theirs. Been woke is the logical course of action.

    • @flucksy_bango
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      1 year ago

      I’m curious about this. I’ve literally only heard about how Walt Disney was antisemitic from memes and Family Guy. Is there anything I can actually read about it?

      • @[email protected]
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        31 year ago

        It’s hard to find anything definitive, but everything says he was at least as bad as any rich white man in the 1940s, but Walt was a member of the American Nazi party, and in 1938, a month after Kristallnacht, Disney personally welcomed Nazi director Leni Riefenstahl to his studios.