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**The B-movie "Surf Nazis Must Die" explores localism in surfing, telling the story of the followers of the "Führer of the New Beach” murdering a hardworking black man, and the victim’s elderly mother avenging his death by hunting them down. | **The B-movie "Surf Nazis Must Die" explores localism in surfing, telling the story of the followers of the "Führer of the New Beach” murdering a hardworking black man, and the victim’s elderly mother avenging his death by hunting them down. | ||
*Addressing accusations of latent Nazi sympathy, Noll, the legendary big-wave rider and filmmaker behind the "Search for Surf" films, stated he'd put a swastika on something to anger people, and he knew that it angered them and very likely why. | *Addressing accusations of latent Nazi sympathy, Noll, the legendary big-wave rider and filmmaker behind the "Search for Surf" films, stated he'd put a swastika on something to anger people, and he knew that it angered them and very likely why. | ||
**Duane adds that "Angering those people for kicks meant that the slaughter of six million Jews didn’t strike you as a big deal." | **Duane adds that "Angering those people for kicks meant that the slaughter of six million Jews didn’t strike you as a big deal." | ||
*Dora and the Malibu crew eventually figured out that the real-life inspiration for the character Gidget was Jewish, and spray-painted a swastika on their driveway. | *Dora and the Malibu crew eventually figured out that the real-life inspiration for the character Gidget was Jewish, and spray-painted a swastika on their driveway. | ||
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***“poor minority women in L.A. County were having too many babies, that it was a strain on society and that it was good that they be sterilized.” (The head physician has denied any wrongdoing.) | ***“poor minority women in L.A. County were having too many babies, that it was a strain on society and that it was good that they be sterilized.” (The head physician has denied any wrongdoing.) | ||
*Anti-Semitic attacks in California are on the rise, with a 27 percent increase between 2017 and 2018. Ex. A young man with an assault rifle marched into a Southern California synagogue and murdered an unarmed 60-year-old woman. | *Anti-Semitic attacks in California are on the rise, with a 27 percent increase between 2017 and 2018. Ex. A young man with an assault rifle marched into a Southern California synagogue and murdered an unarmed 60-year-old woman. | ||
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*For 20 years, while driving from San Francisco to my favorite surf spot, I've passed through a mid-20th-century subdivision called Westlake, on the coast, but I didn't know that the homes were only for white Caucasian people. | *For 20 years, while driving from San Francisco to my favorite surf spot, I've passed through a mid-20th-century subdivision called Westlake, on the coast, but I didn't know that the homes were only for white Caucasian people. | ||
*Few white people consider themselves evil, but white-supremacist racism is as Californian as panning for gold and hanging ten. Allowing ourselves to see this doesn't make us good people, but it’s a baby step toward breaking the cycle. | *Few white people consider themselves evil, but white-supremacist racism is as Californian as panning for gold and hanging ten. Allowing ourselves to see this doesn't make us good people, but it’s a baby step toward breaking the cycle. | ||