It makes sense, the movie quickly became fantasy fodder for violent post-Vietnam-war white supremacists. They pretended they were fighting a fictional government where Jewish people manipulated minorities to steal white people’s privilege.
As an example, Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh loved Rambo and worked for a short time as a simple security guard. The book Bring the War Home by Kathleen Belew describes:
He liked to brandish “a huge … pistol out of his car window” and came to work with bandoliers of ammunition hung across his chest, like the fictional supersoldier and Vietnam War veteran Rambo. Clearly McVeigh was deeply attached to the popular culture deployments of the Vietnam War story.
First Blood is also listed as one of his favorite movies in Jeffrey Toobin’s book Homegrown, about white terrorism in the U.S.
He also loved Red Dawn and watched it on repeat when he was in prison.
It makes sense, the movie quickly became fantasy fodder for violent post-Vietnam-war white supremacists. They pretended they were fighting a fictional government where Jewish people manipulated minorities to steal white people’s privilege.
As an example, Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh loved Rambo and worked for a short time as a simple security guard. The book Bring the War Home by Kathleen Belew describes:
First Blood is also listed as one of his favorite movies in Jeffrey Toobin’s book Homegrown, about white terrorism in the U.S.
He also loved Red Dawn and watched it on repeat when he was in prison.