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This chapter is about O Bom Europeu (The Good European), which could be described as the Portuguese representation of the American alt-right. Created in 2018, O Bom Europeu counts no more than 20 members. It reached more than 9000 subscribers on Facebook before being banned in 2021. Its online activities comprise proposing books and reading in the social web, and then debating online these contents. Thereby, the recommended books deal principally with biological, genetic, and paleoanthropological studies. O Bom Europeu has as ideological basis mostly the writings of Guillaume Faye—from Nouvelle Droite—and Friedrich Nietzsche. Moreover, it uses mostly theories from biology, evolution, evolutionary psychology, behavioral sciences, and genetics. For O Bom Europeu, all white people should be united in a political unit only for whites. This political bloc comprises Europe from Portugal to Russia and even other areas inhabited by whites. Although, it does not openly praise old-style Nazi-fascism, and avoids completely the term “Aryan,” it is the most extreme and racist group from all groupuscules studied here.
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With regard to O Bom Europeu’s posts on Facebook, as I was also banned from the digital platform, I am not able to give the digital addresses from posts here. I was banned because of collecting O Bom Europeu’s posts.
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The statue was vandalized.
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Jared Taylor also runs his webpage, American Renaissance, where he posts videos weekly.
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Touristic area in Lisbon with many immigrants.
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In this case, it is symbolic violence.
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For the group, the party was not sufficiently explicit and aggressive in defending the White race (or what the group considers to be the White race).
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It is worth mentioning that Yann Fouéré also did not disregarded bio-genetic studies to map European regions.
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Johnson’s White ethnonationalist Manifesto resumes Robertson’s ethnostate. Most issues that johnson worked on had already been addressed by Robertson, including the proposal of a Latin America governed by Creole Military groups due to the impossibility of ethno-states in the region. Johnson reflects more on how the White Caucasian bloc should be politically organized.
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During the large demonstrations against Lukashenko’s regime in Belarus in 2020.
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Guimarães, G.F.R. (2024). Devolution Around Biogenetic Identity: The Cyber-Activism of the Organization O Bom Europeu. In: The Groupuscular Far-Right in Portugal. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-58881-5_7
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