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On Dec. 12 2020, an event protesting Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 U.S. presidential election drew hundreds of so-called Proud Boys — members of a pro-Trump organization classified by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a hate group — to Washington, D.C. During their visit, they burned Black Lives Matter banners stolen from historically Black churches and engaged in brawls that left several people stabbed. Photos of the weekend revealed myriad symbols, slogans, and logos used by the group's members, who dress in black and yellow garb. One photo that drew a great deal of online attention highlighted a man wearing a black and yellow T-shirt with an illustration of an eagle and the initialism 6MWE. As has been alleged on Twitter, this purportedly stands for 6 million wasn't enough — a suggestion that not enough Jews were murdered during the Holocaust. This interpretation, and its association with the Proud Boys, is accurate. Myriad online stores have sold, and continue to sell, these shirts. These pages explicitly describe the shirts as 6 million wasn't enough and often include the word proud in their title description as well. The eagle symbol below this acronym also supports a fascist and anti-Semitic interpretation — it comes from the coat of arms used by the short-lived Italian Social Republic. A largely unrecognized political entity, this state was led by fascist leader Benito Mussolini and existed as a Nazi puppet state in the northern half of Italy from 1943-1945. As such, the claim that 6MWE stands for 6 million wasn't enough is True.
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