Kyle Chapman | |
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| Born | 1975 or 1976 (age 48–49)[1] |
| Nationality | American |
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| Movement | Alt-right[3] |
Kyle Chapman (born 1975 or 1976),[1] also known by the nickname Based Stickman, is an American white nationalist and alt-right activist.[4][3][5] He earned his nickname and prominence in the alt-right movement after he was recorded beating an anti-fascist counter-protester with a stick at the March 2017 March 4 Trump rally in Berkeley, California.[1] Shortly after, he founded the Fraternal Order of the Alt-Knights (FOAK), a paramilitary group that is considered a partner or subgroup of the far-right, neo-fascist Proud Boys organization.[1][6][3][7] He led the FOAK until later that year, when he faded from his leadership position following an assault conviction related to the March 4 Trump rally.[8] In November 2020, Chapman announced an attempted takeover of the Proud Boys organization, as well as a plan to reform the group as an explicitly white supremacist organization.[4][6][8] The attempted coup was not successful.[8]
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- ^ BondGraham, Darwin (July 6, 2018). "White Nationalist Kyle "Based Stickman" Chapman Arrested for Felony Assault with a Deadly Weapon". East Bay Express. Archived from the original on November 11, 2020. Retrieved November 12, 2020.
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- MacFarquhar, Neil; Feuer, Alan; Baker, Mike; Frenkel, Sheera (September 30, 2020). "Far-Right Group That Trades in Political Violence Gets a Boost". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on October 2, 2020. Retrieved October 1, 2020.
- Shannon, Joel. "Who are the Proud Boys? Far-right group has concerned experts for years". USA Today. Archived from the original on October 2, 2020. Retrieved October 1, 2020.
- HoSang, Daniel (2019). Producers, Parasites, Patriots: Race and the New Right-Wing Politics of Precarity. University of Minnesota Press. p. 2. ISBN 9781452960340.
[...] groups such as the protofascist Proud Boys [...].
- McLaren, Peter (2020). "Are those whiffs of fascism that I smell? Living behind the orange curtain". Educational Philosophy and Theory. 52 (10): 1011–1015. doi:10.1080/00131857.2019.1672854. S2CID 210460061.
[...] the hate-filled, far-right neo-fascist organization, Proud Boys.
- Kutner, Samantha (2020). "Swiping Right: The Allure of Hyper Masculinity and Cryptofascism for Men Who Join the Proud Boys" (PDF). International Centre for Counter-Terrorism: 1. JSTOR resrep25259.
Conclusion: Proud Boys represent a new face of far-right extremism. [...] This study explored the pull factors surrounding recruitment, the ways members describe precarity, and the communicative features that mark the group as a violent, cryptofascist extremist organization.
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