Daryl Davis
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They come from all different walks of life, all different educational backgrounds, reasons for joining, etc.
But the Nazi movements, not so much the skinheads.
The skinheads are very disorganized, disjointed.
They go off the rails.
They don't listen to anybody within their own command or whatever.
where the Klan does have some respect for their, or a lot of respect for their higher-ups, you know, the Great Titan, the Grand Dragon, the Imperial Wizard, etc.
But the Nazi movements, a lot of the larger ones like his, his former movement, is very militarily run, and there are quick consequences if you step out of line.
So, you know, I don't like Joe Rogan on my rally ground, but my Grand Dragon wants him here.
I'm going to be cool.
I'm not going to say a word to him.
I'm just going to stand over there because I know if he gets in my face, I might say something and then I'm going to get banished or whatever.
So now, interestingly enough, right, he mentioned the word militia.
So when you have a very subtle nuance here, when you have a bunch of white guys who go out in the woods and practice shooting and they're in their camouflage and practice survival skills and all that kind of stuff, they're called militias.
But when you have black guys, black groups that do the same thing, they're not called militias.
They're called militants.
But it's the same thing.
But the word militant has more of a negative connotation than the word militia.
By the general public standard, especially white people.
We use those terms.
They were referred to Blatts as being militant.