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Another weird moment in history: Nazis attend the Nation of Islam summit, 1961 - https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-CbcE6rSSouc/WAL8t2PEfHI/AAAAAAAALfQ/Ss8iDFtDQYQDYTx

• QAPereo 9y ago
  Horseshoe politics at its finest; when you’re extreme enough, the people like you are those who manage to be equally extreme. By then the underlying ideologies have converged on the same basic notions of rejecting the mainstream and revolution.
• arianon 9y ago
  Not too bizarre, both groups were Nationalists, so I presume that they saw that cooperating on their common objective (total racial segregation) was more useful in the long term. Interestingly, both George Lincoln Rockwell and Malcolm X were assassinated by members of their own parties (a former one in Rockwell's case, though). Sadly, I don't know much else about them.
• sdenton4 9y ago
  Moar context: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/dpwamv/when-malcolm-x-met-the-nazis-0000620-v22n4 https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/dpwamv/when-malcolm-x-met... Apparently the Nation of Islam was in favor of racial separation, and had a highly-placed anti-semite, which made alliance with the nazis possible.
  • jff 9y ago
    > Apparently the Nation of Islam was in favor of racial separation, and had a highly-placed anti-semite I'd be pretty surprised if the Nation of Islam had only one highly-placed anti-semite.
  • HoppedUpMenace 9y ago
    I clicked on this and saw that there is a man that bears a striking resemblance to Obergruppenführer John Smith from "Man in the High Castle."