After Trump presidency, I do see a lot of Nazi logo and SS fashion in the US.
I ride a motorcycle and go to many bike events, there have always been motorcycles with these logos on them, and bikers with Nazi helmets. I guess some may be neo-Nazis, but never had much of a problem as most of the time, bikers are just bikers, and we don’t judge.
Before COVID-19, I was in Laconia bike week, and felt that things are changing. The number of neo-Nazis are increasing and they now refuse to sit with black bikers. There are also a lot more racist slurs thrown at everyone else that is not them in the event, so much that the police is called to usher them away.
I am quite shocked to see the SS bolts in many styling on cars, motorcycles and jackets.
The SS Bolts are a common white supremacist/neo-Nazi symbol derived from Schutzstaffel (SS) of Nazi Germany. The SS, led by Heinrich Himmler, maintained the police state of Nazi Germany. Its members ranged from agents of the Gestapo to soldiers of the Waffen (armed) SS to guards at concentration and death camps.
The SS symbol is derived from the “sowilo” or “sun” rune, a character in the pre-Roman runic alphabet associated with the “s” sound. The Nazis derived many of their symbols from such pre-Roman images. Because the sowilo rune resembles a lightning bolt…
