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Hate on Display™ Hate Symbols Database

 

This database provides an overview of many of the symbols most frequently used by a variety of white supremacist groups and movements, as well as some other types of hate groups.

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ACAB

Hate Symbol
ACAB
ACAB stands for "All Cops Are Bastards" and is a slogan of long standing in the skinhead subculture. Because non-racist skinheads may use this acronym as well as racist skinheads, it should be carefully judged in the context in which it appears.
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AKIA

Hate Symbol
AKIA
AKIA is Ku Klux Klan shorthand for "A Klansman I Am."
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AYAK

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AYAK
AYAK is Ku Klux Klan shorthand for "Are You A Klansman?"
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FGRN

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FGRN
FGRN is a Ku Klux Klan acronym for "For God, Race and Nation," a common Klan slogan.
ALTERNATE NAMES: For God, Race and Nation
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GTKRWN

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GTKRWN
GTKRWN is an acronym for a racist and anti-Semitic slogan created by white supremacists: “Gas the Kikes; Race War Now.”
ALTERNATE NAMES: GTK
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HFFH

Hate Symbol
HFFH
HFFH is an acronym used by the Hammerskins, a large racist skinhead gang. It stands for "Hammerskins Forever, Forever Hammerskins," a format probably adopted from biker gangs.
Read more about HFFH

HSN

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HSN
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ITSUB

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ITSUB
ITSUB is a Ku Klux Klan acronym for "In The Sacred Unfailing Being," a reference to God. It is one of many Klan acronyms created by the Second Ku Klux Klan that emerged in 1915.
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KABARK

Hate Symbol
KABARK
KABARK is a Ku Klux Klan acronym for "Konstantly Applied By All Regular Klansmen." Today it is essentially meaningless and only used as a "sign off" in on-line messages by Klan group members.
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KIGY

Hate Symbol
KIGY
KIGY is Ku Klux Klan shorthand for "Klansman I Greet You."
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KLASP

Hate Symbol
KLASP
KLASP is a Ku Klux Klan acronym for "Klannish Loyalty, A Sacred Principle."
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LOTIE

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LOTIE
LOTIE is a Ku Klux Klan abbreviation for a "Lady Of The Invisible Empire," i.e., a female Klan member.
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OFOF

Hate Symbol
OFOF
OFOF is an acronym for the slogan "One Front, One Family," utilized primarily by the white supremacist group Volksfront.
ALTERNATE NAMES: One Front One Family
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ORION

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ORION
"Our Race Is Our Nation" or "ORION" is a racist slogan proclaiming that racial ties are paramount to all else, transcending national borders or boundaries.
ALTERNATE NAMES: Our Race Is Our Nation
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RAHOWA

Hate Symbol
RAHOWA
RAHOWA is an acronym for "Racial Holy War," a term created by the Creativity Movement, a white supremacist pseudo-religion, as a rallying cry for the white supremacist cause.
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ROA

Hate Symbol
ROA
ROA is an acronym for the white supremacist slogan "Race Over All," popularized by the neo-Nazi/racist skinhead gang Volksfront.
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SS Bolts

Hate Symbol
SS Bolts
White supremacy and the SS Bolts. Find out the history of the neo-Nazi SS Bolts, and the current usage of one of the most powerful hate symbols in history.
ALTERNATE NAMES: Cracker Bolts, SS Lightning Bolts, Lightning Bolts
Read more about SS Bolts

SWP

Hate Symbol
SWP
SWP is an acronym for the white supremacist slogan "Supreme White Power." It seems to have originated on the West Coast, probably in California's prison system.
ALTERNATE NAMES: Supreme White Power
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USAS

Hate Symbol
USAS
The United Society of Aryan Skinheads (USA) is a white supremacist gang active in the prisons and on the streets. Although it originated in Oregon, it is essentially based in California. USAS members primarily use one or more of three symbols: the white power fist, the Valknot, and bindrunes.
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WAR (Arkansas prison gang)

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WAR (Arkansas prison gang)
White Aryan Resistance (WAR) is the name of a large, Arkansas-based white supremacist prison gang, who borrowed the name from California white supremacist Tom Metzger. Their main symbol is an elaborate pyramid-shaped tattoo that contains symbols representing rank and other meanings.
ALTERNATE NAMES: White Aryan Resistance (gang)
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All the symbols depicted here must be evaluated in the context in which they appear. Few symbols represent just one idea or are used exclusively by one group. For example, the Confederate Flag is a symbol that is frequently used by white supremacists but which also has been used by people and groups that are not racist. Similarly, other symbols in this database may be significant to people who are not extreme or racist. The descriptions here point out significant multiple meanings but may not be able to relay every possible meaning of a particular symbol.

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