I did an entire analysis of this several months ago. Using archives there were fewer than 300 Web searches for Boogaloo Boys or similar search terms. The Wikipedia page was started in spring 2020. News stories started shortly after. The term may have been around longer but the promotion of it started in 2020
The word "boogaloo" has been in common (well, sorta common) usage as a humorous shorthand for "when the current cold civil war goes hot" for a while now. But that isn't the same as groups using it in their name, and that in turn isn't the same as there existing a "boogaloo movement".
And that doesn't mean that there aren't groups that have been around for a long time with philosophies that some might now categorize under that term.
Unless a person or group attaches a label to themselves, and explains what it means to them and why they use that label, it is a fault of logic to accept any label uncritically.
They definitely did not start in 2020, they've been around before that.
I did an entire analysis of this several months ago. Using archives there were fewer than 300 Web searches for Boogaloo Boys or similar search terms. The Wikipedia page was started in spring 2020. News stories started shortly after. The term may have been around longer but the promotion of it started in 2020
The word "boogaloo" has been in common (well, sorta common) usage as a humorous shorthand for "when the current cold civil war goes hot" for a while now. But that isn't the same as groups using it in their name, and that in turn isn't the same as there existing a "boogaloo movement".
And that doesn't mean that there aren't groups that have been around for a long time with philosophies that some might now categorize under that term.
Unless a person or group attaches a label to themselves, and explains what it means to them and why they use that label, it is a fault of logic to accept any label uncritically.