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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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Boots and Laces

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Boots and Laces
Racist skinheads prefer wearing steel-toed workboots, typically with red or white shoelaces laced a certain way.
ALTERNATE NAMES: Red Shoelaces, White Shoelaces
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Bound for Glory

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Bound for Glory
Bound for Glory is the name of a longstanding white power music band (dating back to 1989) from Minneapolis. It is popular among white supremacists. The main symbol associated with the band is a Thor's Hammer containing the band's initials. Also common are the band's initials in or superimposed over an Iron Cross. Both images derive from albums released by the group.
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Bowlcut/Dylann Roof

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Bowlcut/Dylann Roof
The “Bowlcut” is an image of a bowl-shaped haircut resembling the one sported by white supremacist mass killer Dylan Roof. People who use the “bowlcut” image or other “bowl” references admire Roof and call for others to emulate his racist murders.
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Brotherhood Forever

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Brotherhood Forever
Brotherhood Forever is a racist prison gang based in Tennessee that is also known as the Tennessee Aryan Brotherhood, according to prison officials. Its symbol consists of its name above and below SS lighting bolts. Sometimes these may appear within an Iron Cross symbol or shield symbol.
ALTERNATE NAMES: Tennessee Aryan Brotherhood
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Brothers of White Warriors

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Brothers of White Warriors
Brothers of White Warriors is a New Hampshire-based white supremacist prison gang. Its most common symbol is an Iron Cross inside of which usually appear the group's initials, jail bars, and a swastika, although the swastika can also appear below the Iron Cross and there are other variations.
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Burning Cross

Hate Symbol
Burning Cross
One of the most potent hate symbols is the burning cross, popularized as a terror symbol by the Ku Klux Klan.
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Burning Neo-Nazi Symbols

Hate Symbol
Burning Neo-Nazi Symbols
Neo-Nazis have adopted the Ku Klux Klan practice of symbolic burnings, substituting swastikas, othala and life runes, triskeles and the Celtic cross for the traditional cross burned by Klan members.
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Celtic Cross

Hate Symbol
Celtic Cross
The Celtic Cross is one of the most important and commonly used white supremacist symbols. Learn the history and current version of the Celtic Cross.
ALTERNATE NAMES: Odin’s Cross, Sun Cross, Wheel Cross
Read more about Celtic Cross

Confederate Flag

Hate Symbol
Confederate Flag
The Confederate flag is a common white supremacist symbol. Learn more about its use by non-extremists, as well as its recognition as a hate symbol.
Read more about Confederate Flag

COORS Family Skins

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COORS Family Skins
COORS Family Skins (the word COORS is an acronym for "Comrades of our Racial Struggle") is a racist skinhead group whose members are primarily based in southern California. They use a logo consisting of an Othala rune combined with a runic symbol, but they also occasionally appropriate the logo for Coors Beer.
ALTERNATE NAMES: Comrades of our Racial Struggle
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Crazy White Boy

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Crazy White Boy
The term "Crazy White Boy/s" (or its initials) is a phrase used generically by some white supremacists (often as a tattoo), but also commonly used as the name for various white gangs. Although commonly used by white supremacists, others may also use the term, so it should be carefully judged in its context.
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Creativity Movement

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Creativity Movement
The Creativity Movement is a white supremacist group that claims to be a religion for white people. Its symbol is a crown on top of a large W (for "white").
ALTERNATE NAMES: World Church of the Creator, WCOTC, COTC
Read more about Creativity Movement

Crew 1488

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Crew 1488
Crew 1488 (sometimes called Organization 1488) is a small racist prison gang based primarily in Alaska, though it has a small presence in Colorado. Its primary symbol consists of a swastika intertwined with an Iron Cross, with 14, 88 and SS lightning bolts inside the Iron Cross.
ALTERNATE NAMES: Organization 1488
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Crossed Grenades

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Crossed Grenades
The crossed grenade emblem originated with the infamous Dirlewanger Brigade of World War II, a Waffen SS unit that engaged in a number of atrocities.
ALTERNATE NAMES: Dirlewanger
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Crucified Skinhead

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Crucified Skinhead
The crucified skinhead is a common skinhead symbol used by racist and non-racist skinheads alike, typically to expressed a perceived sense that society is opposed against them. Racist skinheads often adorn the symbol with additional hate symbols or replace the cross itself with a hate symbol.
Read more about Crucified Skinhead

Daily Stormer Book Club

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Daily Stormer Book Club
Daily Stormer Book Clubs are mostly informal groups of supporters of white supremacist propagandist Andrew Anglin, who runs the Daily Stormer website.
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Day of the Rope

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Day of the Rope
“Day of the Rope” is a white supremacist slogan referring to mass murders of “race traitors” that occur in The Turner Diaries, a novel written by neo-Nazi William Pierce. The slogan is typically used to urge or promise some similar scenario in the real world.
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Diversity = White Genocide

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Diversity = White Genocide
“Diversity = White Genocide” is a white supremacist slogan intended to suggest that multiculturalism will mean the death of the white race.
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Echo

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Echo (Parentheses)
The "echo," as it is sometimes called, is the on-line use by anti-Semites of multiple parentheses around a person's name to indicate that they are Jewish or, when used around a phrase or term, such as (((banker))), to imply that the word "Jewish" should be added to it.
ALTERNATE NAMES: Parentheses, Parenthesis
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European Kindred

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European Kindred
The European Kindred is a large white supremacist prison gang based primarily in Oregon. Its primary symbol is a "shield" tattoo containing the initials EK, often displayed on the calf.
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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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