Where White Supremacists Breed Online

[Blue_Tires]

In the wake of the Kansas City shootings, a new study by the Southern Poverty Law Center sheds light on the rampant violence that has been perpetrated by users of right-wing extremist sites.

The day after long-time white supremacist and anti-Semite Frazier Glenn Miller allegedly opened fire outside two suburban Kansas City Jewish centers, killing three people, he was denounced by the founder of Stormfront.org, one of the Internet’s oldest and largest white nationalist forums.




“We have enough of a problem with how we are portrayed without some homicidal whack job coming along and reinforcing that,” Don Black told The Daily Beast at the time.

But while Black proudly made clear that Miller was never allowed to post on Stormfront, a new study by the Southern Poverty Law Center, a non-profit civil rights advocacy group, shows that Black’s site has hosted its fair share of “homicidal whack jobs.”

According to the SPLC, “registered Stormfront users have been disproportionately responsible for some of the most lethal hate crimes and mass killings since the Web forum became the first hate site on the Internet in 1995, a month before the Oklahoma City bombing.”

Two of the deadliest non-Islamic acts of terrorism in recent years—the 2012 shooting at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek Wisconsin that killed six, and the Norwegian bombing and subsequent shooting on Utoya that killed a combined 77 people in 2011—were carried out by Stormfront users. Over the past five years in particular—since President Obama’s inauguration—active users of the site have been responsible for the murders of nearly 100 people, suggesting that Stormfront is the online breeding ground for right-wing extremist violence.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/04/17/where-white-supremacists-breed-online.html

[Anansi1171]

1. Crickets?

[louis-t]

2. Don Black doesn't think they encourage that kind of thing.

[Hoyt]

3. I think anyone who posts on those sites, Free Republic, etc., should be banned from owning gunz at

a minimum. Free speech is cool right up until it directly or indirectly hurts other people.

If their hatred does not result in them shooting or intimidating some innocent person, they will encourage other haters who will someday. I commend the SPLC for keeping up with this and other hate groups and the members that believe/practice/like that crud.

[sheshe2]

4. More from your link

The SPLC paints a detailed picture of the person most likely to engage on a hate forum like Stormfront, and most likely to take their aggression, built up over discussion boards, out on people in the real world.

According to the study, “the typical visitor attracted to Stormfront is a frustrated, unemployed, white adult male living with his mother or an estranged spouse or girlfriend. She is the sole provider in the household.” He takes his racist ideologies out into the public domain, attending protests or skinhead concerts or canvassing, and he almost always posts on multiple web forums, escalating from right-wing anti-government sites and conspiracy blogs to militant forums, where he eventually comes to believe that his race is under threat of “white genocide.” As his anger grows, so too does his online history. He discusses guns and violence as the preferred solution to what he perceives to be society’s problems, often antagonizing other forum members and sometimes even getting banned in the month before his violent rampage. The frequency with which he posts varies, either showing a significant increase or decrease in the volume of his posts in the days, weeks, and hours ahead of his killing spree. His writings usually identify an enemy, such as the U.S. government, minorities, or the chimeric Zionist Occupation Government. However, his rampage is triggered by personal events and often takes place in or around his home, where family members might be the first casualties of his rage.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/04/17/where-white-supremacists-breed-online.html

These sites need to be shut down, they are a breeding site of violence and hate.

[JustAnotherGen]

5. Too little too late

Its too late for this Mr. Black. May nothing "pass over" you and your ilk.

[steve2470]

6. Short of shutting them down, which would please me greatly...

at least the FBI, ATF, Secret Service et al know where they congregate. I knew Stormfront was horrible but I didn't know it was this murderous.