Submit Your Photos and Videos. Creative Marketing. Group with tiki torches at Youngkin campaign event in Charlottesville, Va. Published: Oct. Share on Facebook. Email This Link. Share on Twitter. Share on Pinterest.
Share on LinkedIn. Most Read. These portrayals embodied the racial myth that a superior German civilization was the rightful heir of an "Aryan" culture of classical antiquity. By reviving the long dormant Olympic torch relay, Nazi propagandists used flame in a calculated strategy to legitimize their mythology, similar to their adoption of the ancient symbol of the swastika. The synagogue in Charlottesville was explicitly threatened with burning by neo-Nazis, and, as a precaution, the congregation made the painful and unprecedented decision to move its Torah scrolls off site.
Among them was a Torah salvaged from a European Jewish community destroyed during the Holocaust. These salvaged scrolls have also come to symbolize the values of a pluralistic America—and to celebrate the security and openness that American Jews have felt in the postwar period. Yet in Charlottesville, according to the rabbi, his congregants were forced to leave in fear through a back door as three men dressed in fatigues and armed with semi-automatic rifles stood nearby.
Some carried flags with swastikas and other Nazi symbols. But historically in the United States, torch-carrying mobs lit the scene of countless Ku Klux Klan rallies and mob lynchings. In Charlottesville on Friday night, marchers chanting various white nationalist slogans carried tiki torches, known primarily for their South Pacific ambiance and for their contemporary use of keeping mosquitoes at bay.
Read More. Tiki Brand, the company that manufactures the bulk of tiki torches in the US, took to social media over the weekend, saying it was not happy to see its products used as tools for white nationalists and other extremist groups.
Our products are designed to enhance backyard gatherings and to help family and friends connect with each other at home in their yard. Trash bins stuffed with tiki torches.
The bamboo-wrapped beacons are decidedly nonwhite, having roots in Polynesian and Hawaiian cultures -- a fact that white-nationalist marchers might not have meant to highlight. Tiki torches made their entrance in the US in the early s in Hawaiian-themed restaurants.
According to Tiki Brand , the torches "gained more popularity in the s, when Pacific Island-themed restaurants, bars and even living rooms were all the rage. Outrage on social media over the Friday night tiki-torch march quickly turned to mockery as users pointed out the irony of the tiki-lit demonstration.
KTVN reports:. We do not accept fascism. We do not accept Klansmen. We are truly Identitarian. That symbol is not a symbol of racism. He got in the frame by traveling to a public event for white nationalism, and however he frames his politics, this photo contains clear symbols and actions: A very young man shouting with intense emotion, wearing a polo with the logo of Identity Evropa , a white nationalist group that has been active on college campuses.
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