this post was submitted on 28 Jul 2024
-21 points (23.1% liked)

Wikipedia

1590 readers
555 users here now

A place to share interesting articles from Wikipedia.

Rules:

Recommended:

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
-21
Aryan Brotherhood (en.m.wikipedia.org)
submitted 4 months ago by mecfs to c/wikipedia
all 7 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

what's downvoted here?

  • a) that there is a Wikipedia page on a.b.?
  • b) a.b.?
  • c) somebody posting on lemmy the Wikipedia page of a.b.?
[–] mecfs 3 points 4 months ago

Noticed that a lot of people browse lemmy through all so they downvote things they dont like not knowing it fits in the context of a specific lemmy community. Kind of a shame tbh.

[–] mecfs 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Didn’t know this kind of stuff was still legal, crazy

[–] tpihkal 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's not legal. Do you think prison gangs have ever been legal?

[–] mecfs 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

The KKK is legal. Prison gangs are legal. There nothing banning the existence of a gang as that apparently impedes first amendment rights.

What is illegal is the various things these gangs do.

“Gang affiliation is not prohibited in the US; however some states have imposed prohibitions especially when it comes to youth gangs.”

https://www.legalmatch.com/law-library/article/gang-affiliation-laws.html

[–] tpihkal 7 points 4 months ago

No, it is not illegal for a free US citizen. However, prisons specifically prohibit gang membership because prisoner are not free citizens. Many gang members in prison try to conceal their membership and security guards refer to gangs as "security threat groups" as a way of denying legitimacy.

Source: Correction: Gangs and Violence in Prisons - SAGE edge