Young White Men Are Being Radicalized (Online). It’s Time To Talk About It

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Neo-Nazis are no joke—they just want you to think they are
A style guide for a neo-Nazi publication reveals what should be obvious, writes Tabatha Southey: darkness lurks behind their self-parodying ‘humour’

Neo-Nazis, alt-right, and white supremacists encircle and chant at counter protestors at the base of a statue of Thomas Jefferson after marching through the University of Virginia campus with torches in Charlottesville, Va., USA on August 11, 2017. (Samuel Corum/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

http://www.macleans.ca/opinion/neo-nazis-are-no-joke-they-just-want-you-to-think-they-are/

“Generally, when using racial slurs, it should come across as half-joking—like a racist joke that everyone laughs at because it’s true,” reads the style guide used by The Daily Stormer, a copy of which the Huffington Post got its hands on this week.

The Daily Stormer is a prominent America-based neo-Nazi and white supremacist website that takes its name and more from Der Stürmer, the tabloid newspaper of the Nazi Party. And what it seems to be saying with that “half-joking” advice and much else in the guide is: “Don the Magic Cloak of Plausible Deniability and come with us!”

This likely won’t come as a surprise to anyone who spends much time online. Many will have observed some of these far, far right fools prancing about under that just-kidding-maybe cover. They do this as if somehow we can’t see exactly what they’re up to, and as if what they’re up to isn’t being Nazis and working to recruit more Nazis.

The style guide instructs prospective contributors on how to use memes, “humour” and “ironic hatred” to “blame the Jews for everything,” that being the site’s “prime directive.” That Jews cause all the bad things “is pretty much objectively true,” says the 17-page primer, apparently penned by site editor Andrew Anglin. “As Hitler says, people will become confused and disheartened if they feel there are multiple enemies. As such, all enemies should be combined into one enemy, which is the Jews.”

The phrase “As Hitler says” is rather the point to that sentence. You use the words “As Hitler says” in that benign, casual, and authoritative way, and it doesn’t much matter what comes after them. You type “As Hitler says, ‘i’ before ‘e’ except after ‘c’,” and you are telling any burgeoning Goebbels looking for a home for their murderous musings that “yes, we’re those Nazis. Goose-step on over and pull up a chair.”

The guide also provides advice on formatting and grammar, site-specific terminology—“Moslem,” not “Muslim,” is the preferred Daily Stormer house style—along with a list of “racial slurs” that are officially “allowed and advisable” that leaves me wondering what exactly crosses a line.

Think of this document as Strunk and White Power.

Keep it simple, keep it anti-Semitic: This is the guide’s message. Not all problems are created by Jews, aspiring Nazi ghostwriters are encouraged to say, but “if we didn’t have the Jews, we could figure out how to deal with non-whites very easily.” Similarly, “Women should be attacked but there should always be a mention that if it weren’t for Jews they would be acting normally.” “Jews are like hormones” seems to be the gist of it, as far I can tell, but until I hear someone say, “Yes, I ate half a cake and cried to an Adele song, it must be my Jews,” I can’t be certain.

The guide’s acceptable terms for women are, by the way, “****, *****, *****, harlot, trollop, slag, skag.” That some of these words are antiquated to the point of near-whimsicality is by design. “The indoctrinated should not be able to tell if we’re joking,” Anglin explains. Put a funny hat on your hatred, play to the crowd.

Effectively utilizing these jokes—the so-called “lulz” in Internet parlance—is vital, the guide cautions, because “most people are not comfortable with material that come across as vitriolic, raging, non-ironic hatred.” Adding the “lulz”—expressing oneself dead seriously but in the cadence of a joke—throws that Cloak of Plausible Deniability over not just to the writer, but the audience as well. “No, I’m not reallyconsuming literal neo-Nazi propaganda,” an as-yet-unconverted reader can tell themselves. “It’s just dead baby humour.”

“The goal is to continually repeat the same points, over and over and over again,” the guide stresses. “The reader is at first drawn in by curiosity or the naughty humour, and is slowly awakened to reality by repeatedly reading the same points.” It bears repeating that, to the writer of this guide, “awaken to reality” means “embrace genocide.”

We’re living in the Irony Age, and we’re forging it into deadly weapons.

What should be completely avoided by anyone who hopes to get their work featured on The Daily Stormer—where the policy is “if we don’t like [the articles] you can put them on your own blog or whatever, if we accept them for publication we will pay you $14.88”—is the “sometimes mentioned idea that ‘even if we got rid of the Jews we would still have problems.’ ”

“The Jews should always be the beginning and end of every problem,” Anglin cautions. Specifics include “poor family dynamics” and the “destruction of the rainforest.”

Regardless of whether you were wondering, the “14 words” represent, for neo-Nazis, the words of David Lane, an American white supremacist leader and convicted felon whose mandate was: “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.” Why 88 cents? Because H is the eighth letter of the alphabet. That “88” is an abbreviation for the “Heil Hitler” salute. Several photographs found on the website registered to white-supremacist mass murderer Dylann Roof featured the number the 88 and 1488 was written in the sand in one picture. (If I have to learn Nazi numerology, you’re gonna join me.)

If you rolled your eyes as you read that, because it’s difficult to take the whole concept of 1488 — it’s like someone telling you their “lucky lottery numbers” of genocide—the reality is that it has worked. Somewhere between guessing and guffawing is where StormFront wants you to be, but make no mistake—gassing is where they want this to end.

There’s no ambiguity here. “This is obviously a ploy and I actually do want to gas [Jewish people, but that’s not the term he uses]. But that’s neither here nor there,” writes Anglin, and such an extreme position—and once again, this is a feature not a bug—is sometimes discounted as near-self-parody. Stormfront is not a site you have to go digging about on the net to find; it pops up, I have been sent links, and Anglin warns about the kind of posts that can get them booted off Facebook. But it is sometimes dismissed as too fringe to be worth addressing.

This ghastly glibness has, however, seeped deeply into the mainstream—even before it was revealed, theirs was basically a playbook in heavy circulation—and everything Stormfront does serves to make much that would have shocked many of us a few years ago start to look comparatively centrist. They’re the reason people get to the thinking that “those guys in Charlottesville with tiki torches were just blowing off steam.”

The internet is a vast, fresh pitch, but we’re watching an old game. “Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies,” wrote Jean-Paul Sartre in 1946. “They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves. …They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert.”

FBI statistics released in November show that anti-Semitic incidents accounted for 11 per cent of hate crimes of all types in the United States in 2016, and over 50 per cent of religious hate crimes, a slight increase from the year before. African-Americans, like the people Dylann Roof targeted in their church, account for by far the most number of hate crimes, yet again. This “foolishness” is fuel on a very real fire. It’s time we treated them as such.

 

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Rhodesia’s Dead — but White Supremacists Have Given It New Life Online

A photo illustration composed of screen shots from the Instagram accounts rhodesiaforever and the now-defunct Selous Armory showing Rhodesian-themed merchandise.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/10/magazine/rhodesia-zimbabwe-white-supremacists.html

In the sepia-toned photo, two white soldiers patrol on foot over brush and rocky ground. Lean and bearded, they carry what appear to be Belgian rifles, and they wear an unusual uniform — cloth jungle hats, short shorts and tennis shoes — associated with a military unit that was disbanded nearly 40 years ago.

That unit was called the Selous Scouts, a special-forces regiment from the Rhodesian Army, which fought black insurgent armies in the Bush War of the 1960s and ’70s to maintain white-minority rule over territory that is now Zimbabwe.

Not long after Rhodesia ceased to exist, it became morally untenable to mourn its disappearance. As the rest of the world woke up to the injustices of Western colonialism and its system of white-minority governments, the Selous Scouts and their cause became taboo.

This screen shot from Instagram appears to show two Rhodesian Selous Scouts on patrol. The post is paired with a quote attributed to Lt. Col. Ronald Reid-Daly, who founded and then commanded the Selous Scouts during the Bush War of the 1960s and ’70s.

But late last year, the image of two Scouts began to circulate on Instagram, part of a social-media resurgence of Rhodesia as a source of inspiration. Photos of soldiers marching through grassland and rivers, special-forces units jumping out of helicopters and civilians posing in front of their homes with rifles collected hundreds, sometimes thousands, of likes on posts seeming to offer tribute to a hardened and forgotten cadre of Cold War-era bush fighters. The online movement also caught the attention of opportunistic apparel marketers who started selling Rhodesian-themed T-shirts, posters and patches, among other collectibles.

Nostalgia for Rhodesia has since grown into a subtle and profitable form of racist messaging, with its own line of terminology, hashtags and merchandise, peddled to military-history fans and firearms enthusiasts by a stew of far-right provocateurs.

In conversations and email exchanges with The New York Times, some prominent social-media figures and companies selling Rhodesia-themed merchandise denied trafficking in white-power messages, or said they had done so unwittingly. A few said their affinity for Rhodesia derived from the government’s supposed anticommunist stance.

But outside observers of this Rhodesia revival cite a far more disturbing inspiration for it: Dylann Roof, the American white supremacist who killed nine black parishioners in a Charleston, S.C. church in June 2015. Roof, who was sentenced to death last year, had penned an online manifesto, which appeared on a website called The Last Rhodesian, with photographs of himself wearing a jacket with a patch of the green-and-white Rhodesian flag.


Dylann Roof, who killed nine black parishioners in a Charleston, S.C., church in 2015, wearing a jacket with the green-and-white flag of Rhodesia in a photo posted to a website called The Last Rhodesian.

Demand for Rhodesian-themed apparel has since increased. Today one retailer, the Commissar Clothing Company, offers “Make Zimbabwe Rhodesia Again” hoodies and T-shirts and others that read “Be a Man Among Men,” a Rhodesian Army recruiting slogan now used by hate groups. The online store was taken down in March, but its merchandise is still available on the company’seBay storefront.

Another retailer of Rhodesia-themed goods, the Western Outlands Supply Company, which is listed by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a “white nationalist hate group,” was formerly known as Right Wing Death Squad and sold similar fare, in addition to apparel featuring Crusader crosses and medieval symbols like those seen at the Charlottesville “Unite the Right” rally last year.


A screen shot from the Western Outlands Supply Company’s Instagram account shows a phone case bearing the slogan and insignia of the Selous Scouts. The case was, until recently, available for purchase on the Western Outlands website.

Commissar goes further, offering shirts that say “Slot Floppies,” a phrase that is sometimes used as a hashtag on Instagram and other social media platforms to promote Rhodesian-themed posts and messaging. “Floppy,” in 1970s Rhodesia, was the equivalent of an unprintable racist epithet in the United States, while “slot” was Rhodesian military slang for “shoot.”


A screen shot from the Commissar Clothing Company Facebook page of T-shirts once available for purchase on the company’s website. The website has been taken down, but its products are still available on the company’s eBay storefront.

When The Times asked Instagram whether #MakeZimbabweRhodesiaAgain and other hashtags violated community standards, the social-media company issued this statement: “We have blocked these hashtags for violating our hate-speech policies,” it said, “and they will no longer be searchable on Instagram.”

If such symbols and slogans, for a North American audience, lack the instant shock effect of a Confederate or Nazi flag, that is part of the point. Commissar Clothing’s website, now shuttered, explained its products’ wink-and-nod appeal: “We think you should be able to tell the world about you without saying a word,” it read. “The great thing about most of our designs is that they are essentially inside jokes and references that the general public will not understand.”

When reached by email, Commissar Clothing’s owner, Alexander Smyth, said, “I do not support or condone racism of any sort.”

The online apparel company FireForce Ventures, whose website is registered to the Canadian Army reservist Henry Lung, offers reproduction Rhodesian flags, recruiting posters and various patches of the Rhodesian security forces. Lung, who is of Chinese descent, told The Times, “I see the veteran community, the Rhodesian community, as one to be honored,” but insisted that he was not a white supremacist, and that he was “just trying to make a little bit of extra cash.”


A screen shot from the FireForce Ventures Instagram account showing a reproduction of a Rhodesian Army recruiting poster available for purchase on the company’s website.

Heidi Beirich, head of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project, said the uptick of pro-Rhodesian messaging is a purposeful amplification of the ideology and practice of “racist colonial regimes” — and possibly even an exhortation to war.

“All the talk right now among people in the alt-right and the broader white supremacist movement is about the need for a white ethno-state,” she said. “And when you praise Rhodesia, in this context, what you’re praising is violence to that end.”

“There were no defenses for apartheid regimes and colonialism 20 years ago,” Beirich added. “And now all of a sudden we’re seeing this stuff pop up.”

Southern Rhodesia was established in 1923 as a British colony named for Cecil Rhodes, who made his fortune in consolidating diamond mines. By the 1960s, as much of Africa rapidly decolonized around it, the colonial government faced pressure from London to hold free elections and accede to majority rule.

The colonial government refused. In 1965 it renamed itself Rhodesia and broke from the United Kingdom with the express purpose of maintaining white rule. The new government was led by Ian Smith, who declared that “the white man is master of Rhodesia. He has built it, and he intends to keep it.”

Smith’s government soon found itself at war with a black insurgency, fighting for representative government and self-rule. Many of the fighters received weapons from China or the Soviet Union. Rhodesia’s government labeled them “communists” and “terrorists.”

“It’s a complicated story,” said Gerald Horne, author of “From the Barrel of a Gun” and a professor of history and African-American studies at the University of Houston. “But of course the apartheid side knew what sold in Washington, so they portrayed it as a battle against communism because it got pulses racing in the United States.”

The battle for perception is playing out again now on social media, which pro-Rhodesia accounts or commenters are using to rewrite Rhodesian history in gentle tones. On Jan. 27, the Instagram page @historicalwarfareinc posted the photo below, claiming it depicted an army officer deciding the fate of a prisoner.


An Instagram screen shot featuring a photo taken in September 1977 by J. Ross Baughman. The photo, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1978, shows a Rhodesian soldier holding a bat after he used it to beat Moffat Ncube, a local teacher and political leader.

The photograph is well known. It was taken in September 1977 by an Associated Press photographer, J. Ross Baughman, who was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for capturing the brutality of the Rhodesian Army.

That Instagram caption provides far less context than the version submitted for the Pulitzer, which read: “Lt. Graham Baillie raps a small wooden bat against his leg after using it to beat Moffat Ncube, a local teacher, political leader and now a bound, unconscious prisoner slumped against the wall of schoolhouse, 20 September 1977.”

It added: “Ncube reportedly later died after three days of brutal, nonstop torture.”

As of April 6, the photo with the more anodyne caption had nearly 1,850 likes.

Some pro-Rhodesia voices on social media are not so subtle.

Last December Joseph Smith, a 22-year-old resident of Rexburg, Idaho, who told The Times he had not heard of Rhodesia until 18 months ago, posted a YouTube video that he said offered “a quick rundown” of Rhodesian history. The video has received more than 180,000 views.

Comments on it included calls for Rhodesia to return, claims that the West betrayed Rhodesia and outright hostility to the idea of black-majority rule. With more than 1,700 comments in just the last three months, the discussion quickly devolved into a stream of racial and ethnic slurs against African-Americans and Jews, calling for them to be shoved into gas chambers and ovens.

In an email to The Times, Smith wrote that he felt persecuted and that he has found Rhodesian themes compelling. “I’m sure you’re aware these days being a conservative heterosexual white male is rather unpopular in the eyes of many,” and that “this is the demographic that caused Rhodesia to thrive as well as it did for as long as it did.”

He insisted, however, that his attraction to Rhodesian nostalgia was not racist. “I do not think that it’s a race issue though,” he wrote. “Partly I just feel like white people like having a team to root for these days.”

An examination of retailers and social-media accounts showed a varied understanding and mixed approaches to addressing the meanings in the pro-Rhodesia messaging.

The Selous Armory, a Massachusetts apparel company run by Sean Lucht, a Boston firefighter and Marine veteran, sold a red-and-white “Make Zimbabwe Rhodesia Again” patch online until recently. The site also sold T-shirts with sayings like “Rhodesians Never Die” and “Apply Violence” with the Rhodesian Foreign Legion logo, in addition to “Be a Man Among Men” posters. When The Times reached out to Lucht for comment about the business in March, all the merchandise was stripped from the website and an announcement was published on its home page saying, “The Selous Armory was always a place for military history/humor and never a place for hate.” The announcement added that the Selous Armory had ceased all operations. Lucht did not respond to numerous requests for comment.


A screen shot from the Selous Armory Instagram account, now defunct, showing Rhodesian-themed posters, stickers and patches once available for purchase on the company website.


A screen shot from the former Instagram account of Selous Armory displaying a patch that echoes President Trump’s campaign slogan and that was once available for purchase on the company’s website.

The Instagram account of retired Delta Force master sergeant Larry Vickers also displays an affinity for Rhodesia.

With roughly 900,000 followers on YouTube, Facebook and Instagram, Vickers — a marksmanship instructor who says he trains special-operations forces, law enforcement and civilians — attracts a social-media audience with an interest in military history and firearms.

On Instagram, Vickers first publicly professed his fondness for Rhodesian history in September 2014, posting a photo of Rhodesian soldiers returning from a raid. Since 2017, he has shared many photos of Belgian FAL rifles painted in the splotchy yellow-and-green camouflage favored by Rhodesian troops in the Bush War of the 1970s.

The caption on one photo from last year expressed reverence: “Respect and remember,” it read. In a telephone interview, Vickers told The Times that his attraction to the Rhodesian security forces stems from their having carried out “some of the most daring special operations missions in history on a shoestring.” He has repeatedly referred to the fall of Rhodesia as “the greatest tragedy of the post-World War II era.” His own YouTube videos on the Rhodesian rifle have nearly 300,000 page views. Racist comments and calls for racist violence cluttered the comments sections — until he was asked about them by The Times.

A screenshot from the Instagram account of Larry Vickers, retired Delta Force master sergeant, showing an FAL rifle used by the Rhodesian Army with the insignia of two Rhodesian military units. The gold pin is the winged-dagger insignia of the Special Air Service. The silver pin is the insignia of the Selous Scouts, a special-forces regiment.


A screen shot from Larry Vickers’s Instagram account shows an FAL rifle used by the Rhodesian Army with the caption “It’s time to slot floppies. ...” Slot means “shoot,” and “floppies” is a racial slur.

Vickers said he was unaware of the comments, and has since turned the comments function on some videos off. On March 16, he went a step further and issued a public rebuke on his Facebook page, saying, “Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but if your opinion is racist and demeaning you can go elsewhere as that is not welcome here.” It appears that he has not deleted any of his Instagram posts mentioning Rhodesia.

Vickers’s apparent concern was shared by the owner of DS Arms, an Illinois-based firearms manufacturer, which, in March, wrote on Instagram that it will be releasing a “Rhodie tribute rifle” along with T-shirts featuring the “Be a Man Among Men” Rhodesian recruiting insignia. DS Arms also sells a challenge coin embossed with the same emblem.


A screen shot from the DS Arms Instagram account showing a challenge coin available for sale featuring an image from a Rhodesian recruitment poster.
The owner of the company, David Selvaggio, said in a telephone interview that he did not know what had been driving recent online interest in Rhodesia.

“I’ve been told that yes, there’s young guys getting into it and they’re showing an interest in it. I’m not sure why.”

When told that the Rhodesian rifle had become a totem for American white supremacists, Selvaggio pleaded ignorance. “What I remember of it is seeing pictures of the FALs on the guys over there fighting. I don’t even know what they were fighting, except against communism, from what I was told. Maybe I need to do some studying on my history here.”

He added that he hoped the next Dylann Roof wouldn’t carry one of his company’s rifles. “That does concern me,” he said. “I don’t want anybody saying, ‘Hey, this is a call to arms, and we have to use a FAL, and we’re for this crazy wacko group.’ That’s not us.”

For Beirich, it’s impossible to pay tribute to the Rhodesian security forces and their equipment without also glorifying the ideology the country was built on.

“In the same way you don’t have people glorifying Nazi soldiers without understanding what the regime fought for,” Beirich said. “You can’t separate fighting for the Confederacy from the ultimate goal of the Confederacy.”

 

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Hate Groups Make Unprecedented Push to Recruit on College Campuses
White nationalist Richard Spencer speaks at the University of Florida in Gainesville in October 2017. (Evelyn Hockstein/For The Washington Post)

White supremacist and neo-Nazi groups in America had a goal for 2017: Leave the virtual confines of online forums and social media platforms and occupy physical space. It was an objective they shared often and freely in interviews and online postings. They wanted to serve notice that their movement was a force to be reckoned with and its adherents were not simply shadowy Internet lurkers but real people — most of them young and male — who were not afraid to show their faces or proclaim their messages.

It was a decision that led to a year of tumult, violence and even death, and nowhere was that decision felt more acutely than on college and university campuses. They became the primary battlegrounds for far-right groups that sought out the schools for organized rallies and speeches, and made them the focus of recruiting efforts. For 2018, the goal of these groups is to expand their reach on campuses, force showdowns over free speech, generate more publicity and win over more adherents.

As the white supremacists continue to flout boundaries of acceptable behavior and engage in activities many students, faculty and staff find menacing, institutions are rethinking, and in some cases rejiggering, policies regarding allowable activities on campus. Schools that have cherished their longtime role as havens for free speech and debate have found themselves drawing lines in response to messages of hate and threats of violence.

Those messages were hard to miss last year. Pamphlets and stickers proclaimed war against diversity and stoked racial division.

“Fighting for White Working Families”

“Take back what is rightfully ours.”

“Preserve your heritage, take up the fight.”

'Not in our town!' Protesters march against Richard Spencer at University of Florida

On campuses large and small, urban and rural, the racist far-right made its presence felt like never before with leaflets and banners warning of threats to white supremacy. Swastikas were scribbled on walls of Jewish campus organizations. Bananas were left in front of the dorm rooms of black students.

The Anti-Defamation League found that in the past 15 months, organizations such as the Traditionalist Worker Party, Identity Evropa, American Renaissance and Vanguard America directed campaigns at more than 200 college campuses in 42 states. The pace of their provocations has only accelerated in recent months. The civil rights group counted 140 reported incidents — displays of organized racist activity — from Sept. 1 through Dec. 18. For the same period the year before, 41 incidents were reported.

All of these groups have been labeled white nationalist hate groups by the Southern Poverty Law Center, which monitors extremist activity. The Traditionalist WorkerParty, American Renaissance and Vanguard America were banned from Twitter in late December as part of the social media site’s effort to enforce community standards.

The targeting of colleges and universities was not a haphazard choice by the white power groups but rather a calculated strategy.

“It’s striking a blow directly at the heart of our foes,” said Matthew Heimbach, founder of the Traditionalist Worker Party, a far-right organization that seeks a whites-only nation state and has been labeled a hate group for its anti-Jewish and homophobic stances and its opposition to racial mixing. “It lets them know that there are people that are radically opposed to them, that aren’t afraid of them, that will challenge them. It shakes their thought that they’ve got the campus environment locked down and lets them know that people who oppose them go to their school or are a part of their local community.”

College campuses, Heimbach said, are ideal for recruiting members and gaining publicity because the presence of the hate groups inevitably creates an outcry on campus and in the community. He said the ranks of his organization have tripled over the past year from 500 to 1,500 members, although The Washington Post could not independently verify that assertion.

In a late-December post on Gab, the social media site popular with many who have been banned from Twitter, Heimbach said his organization and Vanguard America are planning a “combined propaganda drive” at Midwestern universities in the coming weeks.

Despite claims by Heimbach and others, Oren Segal, director of the ADL’s Center on Extremism, doesn’t believe their recruiting efforts on campus will win over many adherents. But he worries that the aggressive campaigns indicate the groups are feeling emboldened.

“It’s a reminder that these groups feel now is the time to strike,” Segal said. “Whether they are able to recruit thousands or not, they feel the atmosphere is ripe.”

Though the groups had been pushing their on-campus activities throughout 2017, most of their efforts had escaped widespread national notice — then, Charlottesville happened.

On a warm Friday night in August, hundreds of marchers paraded through the University of Virginia campus carrying torches and chanting nationalist and anti-Semitic slogans. They encircled a small group of protesters at a statue of Thomas Jefferson yelling, “White Lives Matter” and “Jews will not replace us!” Within minutes, punches were being thrown and mace sprayed.


White nationalists carry torches while marching through the University of Virginia campus in August. (Evelyn Hockstein/For The Washington Post)

The melee didn’t last long, but it set the stage for the following day when the violence was much worse. A counterprotester, Heather Heyer, lost her life when a self-described Nazi allegedly drove his car into a crowd killing Heyer and injuring 35 others.

Charlottesville became a hashtag for hate, and the violence there exposed an underbelly of hardcore racism that many Americans had, perhaps naively, imagined didn’t exist anymore. Asked about the violence that week, President Trump insisted there were “very fine people” on both sides, a remark that was widely criticized as a failure by the occupant of the highest office in the land to properly condem groups that trafficked in racial hatred. It was also a remark that encouraged white supremacists who believed the president supported their aims.

White supremacist and former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke tweeted his thanks to the president for his comments. At the rally in Charlottesville a few days earlier he told reporters, “We’re going to fulfill the promises of Donald Trump.”

While Charlottesville drew most of the headlines, racial hatred and violence was on display on campuses and college towns throughout the country before and after that seminal event.

Nathan Damigo, a student at California State University at Stanislaus and the founder of Identity Evropa, was seen in a video punching a woman in the face during a showdown with antifascists in Berkeley in April. Hundreds of students at Stanislaus signed a petition saying Damigo’s presence at the school made them feel unsafe. Damigo remains enrolled, according to school officials.


Richard Collins III's graduation gown is draped over front row chairs at Bowie State University ceremony in College Park, Md. (Neal Augenstein/AP)

In May, Sean Urbanski, a white University of Maryland student, allegedly stabbed and killed Richard Collins III, a black student at nearby Bowie State University and a second lieutenant in the Army who was visiting friends on the College Park campus. Urbanski was charged with a hate crime, and police announced they were investigating Urbanski’s connection to a Facebook page called Alt-Reich Nation.

At the University of Florida in October, an appearance by white nationalist Richard Spencer drew thousands of protesters. Later that day, three of Spencer’s followers were arrested and charged with attempted homicide after they allegedly argued with a group of people protesting his speech and fired a shot at them.


Sean Urbanski (University of Maryland Police Department)

Spencer has fought to speak at large campuses across the country, but in the wake of Charlottesville, administrators at institutions including Pennsylvania State University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Michigan State University blocked his efforts, citing the possibility of violence and enormous security costs.

Schools are altering policies and procedures to deal with the increase in racially based incidents and the growing push on campuses by white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups. Following the torchlight march at the University of Virginia, administrators banned open flames on campus without prior approval. In the report it commissioned on how it handled the events of August, the university sounded a warning for schools everywhere.

“Going forward, the University of Virginia and higher education institutions across the nation must be prepared to respond to situations in which violence and intimidation accompany demonstrations and protests,” the report concluded. “It is incumbent upon the university to forge new policies and practices that will prevent it from again becoming a locus of intimidation and violence while recommitting to the principles of free speech at the core of its mission.”

Following the killing of Collins, the University of Maryland created a rapid-response team for hate-based incidents and announced it will hire a hate-bias response coordinator.

“We’re very concerned with the idea that outside groups are targeting colleges and universities for hate based on race and religion and other identity characteristics,” said U-Md.’s chief diversity officer, Roger L. Worthington. “Hate and bias incidents are not new but certainly in the current national climate we’re concerned because people are more emboldened to engage in those types of behaviors.”

School administrators across the country and organizations that monitor white supremacist groups know that many of the tactics they employ are no more than attempts to gain publicity and news coverage. They worry, as many news organizations do, about how much attention they should receive.

The ADL’s Segal recognizes the tension between overcovering and undercovering, but says schools and news organizations should opt for the former.

“It’s a cliché, but we still believe that sunlight is the best disinfectant,” he said.

 

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Female Rejection is What Fuels the Alt-Right.

90% of the alt-right are borderline incels who hate women because they're getting little to no play. This explains why the alt-right and the red pill/MGTOW groups overlap substantially.

They hate black men with a passion because black men embody the alpha/jock type that always gets the women they desire. Their worst nightmare is getting "****ed" by a black man because it brings back painful memories from when some jock stole their girl back in high school. They're obsessed with the word "****".

They have yellow fever because they've learned on the internet that white skin automatically gets you decent Asian p even if you're a degenerate nerd.

Don't ever let these basement dwelling weirdos fool you into thinking that their hatred comes from a feeling of superiority. They talk a good game but always remember that most of them are insecure losers who have feelings similar to Elliot Rodger. Doesn't mean that they aren't dangerous though.

 

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Susan Rice's Son is an Outspoken Trump Supporter at Stanford

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/susan-rices-son-is-an-outspoken-trump-supporter-at-stanford

Former national security adviser Susan Rice's son is an outspoken Trump supporter and serves as the president of Stanford University's College Republicans.

Rice served as national security adviser under former President Barack Obama.

John David Rice-Cameron told Fox News this week that he distanced himself from his parents' political views and is now a conservative who is determined to "Make Stanford Great Again."

Despite their opposite political beliefs, Rice-Cameron told the outlet that he has a close relationship with his mother.

“My mother and I have a great relationship, and my mother believes strongly in the free and respectful exchange of ideas,” Rice-Cameron told Fox News. “We disagree on most of the standard Republican-Democrat disagreements. However, we agree that America is the greatest nation the world has ever seen, and thus, we believe that America has an important role to play as a force for liberty and justice on the world stage.”

Rice was a controversial member of the Obama administration due to her disputed remarks regarding the 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi.

Rice-Cameron said that it was his Democratic parents' encouragement of debate and discussion that put him on the path towards becoming a conservative.

 

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Fascist Fight Clubs: How White Nationalists Use MMA as a Recruiting Tool
Far-right groups across Europe and North America are using mixed martial arts to swell their numbers, spread their ideology and fight their enemies

Many groups, including RAM, view their MMA gyms as training grounds for upcoming race wars. Photograph: Antonio_Diaz/Getty Images/iStockphoto

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/sep/11/far-right-fight-clubs-mma-white-nationalists

“You will not replace us.”

This was one of the slogans chanted during a rally in Charlottesville, Virginia on the night of 11 August 2017. Approximately 100 young white men – most of whom brandished tiki torches to intimidate watchers and light up their path – marched through the streets in scenes reminiscent of the Ku Klux Klan rallies that once blighted the southern Unites States. By 10pm that evening, the group of white supremacists — now chanting “Jews will not replace us” along with the Nazi phrase “blood and soil” – had reached the University of Virginia campus, where counter-protesters awaited them with banners and slogans of their own. By the end of the weekend one of the counter-protestors would be killed, struck by a car.

The rise of Russia’s neo-Nazi football hooligans

While some may have been under the impression that the rally was a random gathering of racists, it was actually the conjoining of several distinctive and dangerous groups of white supremacists, including Vanguard America, Identity Evropa, League of the South, and The Daily Stormer. One of the most prominent groups present that night were the Rise Above Movement (RAM) — a white supremacist group that refers to itself as the “premier MMA (mixed martial arts) club of the Alt-Right.”

Based in southern California, RAM boasts over 50 members and fashions itself as a fight club. Its members train in various combat sports such as MMA and boxing, which they later apply during street fights and protests. The group has been spotted in Santa Monica, where RAM members tried to disrupt a Committee for Racial Justice meeting, and in San Bernardino, where they took part in an “anti-Sharia law” protest with signs such as “RAPEFUGEES stay away NOT WELCOME.” They engaged in physical violence during protests in Huntington Beach, Berkeley and Charlottesville.

Under the leadership of boxer Robert Rundo and Benjamin Daley, whom ProPublica identified as the owner of a southern California tree-trimming business, RAM members infiltrate protests and disrupt proceedings by fighting with those opposing their ultra-nationalist ideology. They conceal their identities using skull masks and goggles, while wrapping their hands with tape in preparation for physical altercations. They then glorify their antics in propaganda videos posted on social media. RAM also appear to have their own gym, though the location remains a secret.

So why are white supremacist groups forming fight clubs and MMA promotions? The answer lies in the violent nature of the sport and their ability to thrive within it. Over the years, fighters with links to the far-right have been involved in some of the world’s most recognizable promotions, including the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) and Strikeforce. UFC fighter Donald Cerrone and former fighter Joe Brammer were sponsored by Hoelzer Reich, a far-right brand known for propagating extremist symbols. The brand was banned by the UFC in 2009. Four years later, welterweight Benjamin Brinsa was accused by German media of maintaining ties to extremist groups in his native country, while his gym was accused of sheltering neo-Nazi fighters. He was later released by the UFC before making his official debut but did not struggle to find professional fights in Russia.

RAM’s violent ideology coupled with its penchant for MMA and underground fight clubs distinguishes it from various other white supremacist groups in the United States. It has also helped RAM expand beyond the borders of the US, recruit new members, and network with a host of other neo-Nazi groups dabbling in MMA around the world. This is evident in the group’s recent ‘Europe Tour,’ which saw RAM visit several countries across the Atlantic to “bridge the gap between the two nationalist scenes”.

What ensued on the tour was a large-scale networking event that emphasized the growing trend of fascism in mixed martial arts.

Anastasia Yankova fought at a White Rex event and promoted their clothing but denies sharing their ideology. Photograph: Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images

Shield and Sword

On 23 April 2018, approximately 1,000 neo-Nazis and white supremacists descended on Ostritz, a small German town near the Polish border, to attend the Shield and Sword far-right festival. Held in honor of Adolf Hitler’s birthday, the two-day event featured far-right merchandise, heavy metal concerts, political speeches and an MMA tournament with competitors from some of of the most notorious white supremacist groups involved in the fight scene. Among those present were members of the Rise Above Movement.

The MMA promotion responsible for the tournament goes by the name Kampf der Nibelungen. “To live is to fight,” Kampf der Nibelungen stated on its official website. “At all times it was fighters who defended their clan, their tribe, their homeland.”

Over the past few years, Kampf der Nibelungen has held its events in secret, attracting small groups of neo-Nazis and soccer hooligans to their shows. However, the number of attendees at their events are reportedly swelling. While their inaugural show in 2013 brought in 150 guests, that figure had quadrupled by 2017. The Shield and Sword festival in April was the promotion’s first public appearance. Reports suggest that Rundo, one of the pivotal figures of RAM’s leadership, actually competed in the show.

Members of the far-right hope to use MMA to pull in young people. “It’s a question of fashion,” Sword and Shield’s organiser Thorsten Heise told Vice News. “We’re seeing lots of young people in Europe not interested in drugs, they’re interested in fighting – in the ring, with rules. Especially in the nationalist scene, it’s the style – to be fit, to have a nice body. We love that, and the MMA fighters all love this also.”

Ostritz was just one of many European cities that RAM members visited over the past few months. The group also met members of CasaPound, a fascist party in Italy. However, the highlight of their trip took place in Ukraine, where they met one of the leading figures of the far-right movement in sports.

Members of RAM were present at the far-right marches in Charlottesville in 2017. Photograph: Mykal McEldowney/AP

White Rex

A week after the Sword and Shield festival, Rundo and Daley’s European tour arrived in Kiev, where they met with Denis Nikitin, the founder of a Russian neo-Nazi MMA, White Rex. The company sells clothing emblazoned with neo-Nazi symbols and racist slogans, including “Zero Tolerance”, “Angry Europeans”, and “White Rex Against Tolerance”.

Nikitin, a former soccer hooligan turned entrepreneur, uses his business to spread his far-right agenda. In interviews, Nikitin speaks openly about his ideology as a white supremacist. “If we kill one immigrant every day, that’s 365 immigrants in a year,” he told the Guardian this year. “But tens of thousands more will come anyway. I realised we were fighting the consequence, but not the underlying reason. So now we fight for minds, not on the street, but on social media.”

After spending several years in Germany, Nikitin returned to Russia, where he founded White Rex in 2008. He was one of the first people who combined the MMA subculture with far-right political ideologies, and has since established affiliates in countries such as Germany, England, France, and the United States, making him a pivotal figure on the far-right.

Through violent sports such as MMA, Nikitin is able to target disenfranchised youth and promote an alternative lifestyle through nationalist fervour. White Rex uses models with blonde hair and blue eyes to promote their clothes – another strategy to help sell the brand to the young men inclined to join their cause.

While White Rex operates under the guise of a clothing brand, Nikitin also uses his brand to organize MMA events. From 2011 to 2015, White Rex hosted multiple MMA shows, some of which featured several notable Russian fighters, including Bellator star Anastasia Yankova (Yankova has denied she shares White Rex’s ideology). White Rex also hired former Bellator middleweight champion Alexander Shlemenko to train its fighters ahead of one of their shows in 2013. Though White Rex held its final event in 2015, the clothing brand continues to gain popularity.

RAM’s meeting with Nikitin was several months in the making. They regularly posted links to White Rex’s shows and clothing on their social media accounts. More recently, however, RAM has begun selling White Rex clothing on their apparel website, Right Brand Clothing, which suggests a growing relationship between the two entities. It also means that White Rex – a clothing brand that promotes hate, Islamophobia, and nazi ideology – is now available in the United States.

“RAM saw all these well organized groups in Europe and beyond that were outspoken,” Bryan Schatz, an investigative journalist for MotherJones who penned The Terrifying Rise of Alt-Right Fight Clubs, told the Guardian. “They had gyms. They had events that drew a lot of people. I think [RAM] found a lot of inspiration in how successful these groups were able to be so they wanted to import that model to the United States.”

A quick search on the Right Brand Clothing website highlights several White Rex items of clothing, including a t-shirt that features Nazi symbols, such as the SS bolts. The description reads: “From the infamous European clothing brand White Rex this shirt is 100% cotton. Made in Europe. Wear this shirt with pride. Features sleeve patch. This is a European cut, we suggest buying a size up.”

Naturally, White Rex is not the only far-right MMA brand that has caught RAM’s attention. Another group mentioned on RAM’s social media pages is Agogé, a white nationalist boxing gym founded by Generation Identity. According to the extreme right-wing group, the gym is a place for “patriots and identity in Lyon.”

Generation Identity has hosted training camps in France for over six years. Promotional videos show dozens of young men and women working out wearing t-shirts bearing slogans such as “Defend Europe”. Following their success in France, the group has attempted to expand into Canada, particularly the francophone region of Quebec. It has also spurred similar movements from groups like Atalante Quebec, who opened up a secret fight club in Quebec for its members to train in. Despite the fact that a potentially violent “identity boxing club” had been established in Quebec, the local police department had no plans to intervene or monitor the secret club.

On 24 May 2018, six members of Atalante Quebec – some wearing masks – barged into the Montreal offices of Vice Media, where they proceeded to insult reporters, throw leaflets and clown noses around, and intimidate those present in the office. They left before police arrived on scene. However, the group’s leader was arrested the following month and was charged with criminal harassment and intimidation. Their MMA fight club continues to operate despite their well-documented intimidation tactics.

“The alt-right and the analogous identitarian movement are encouraging their members to get off the computer and network in real life,” Evan Balgord, executive director of the Canadian Anti-Hate Network, told the Guardian. “They want their members to take real world actions. Ultimately, they want to establish a white ethnostate by any means necessary. In the case of Atalante [Quebec], they probably view opening a martial arts school as a way to prepare for street clashes with anti-fascist activists or actions they believe are necessary to bring about a white ethnostate.”

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Mixed martial arts provides a unique platform for white supremacists to promote their ideology and recruit new members. It allows far-right extremists to draw parallels between their training regimens and the appropriation of faux-medieval culture and history to suit their racist aims. Many such groups, including White Rex and RAM, view their MMA gyms as training grounds for upcoming race wars. They use Roman and Germanic mythology to romanticize their nationalist fervour, while brainwashing youth into “defending” their homeland against a common threat.

“As far as I can tell, it is basically this idea that they need to come together – essentially like an army – to protect their race, which they see as being attacked.” Schatz explained.

RAM is not the only group in the United States engaging in MMA and street fighting. A group of young, pro-Trump white men recently formed the Fraternal Order of Alt Knights (FOAK) and announced that it would serve as the “tactical defensive arm” of the Proud Boys, a far-right men’s organization started by Vice co-founder Gavin McInnes. Kyle Chapman, the founder of FOAK, revealed that his group plans to “protect and defend our right-wing brethren when the police and government fail to do so.” Other similar groups have since sprouted in Italy, the Czech Republic, and Poland.

It is likely that white-nationalist fight gyms will continue to sprout across North America and Europe for the foreseeable future. Their ability to not only operate in the open, but to also establish a worldwide network of violent, well-trained white supremacists, emphasizes the extent of the problems facing Western society.

 

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Susan Rice's Son is an Outspoken Trump Supporter at Stanford

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/susan-rices-son-is-an-outspoken-trump-supporter-at-stanford

 

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One thing I can say, these boys preparing for war, and while we mock them for not getting yambs and looking foolish, we have to do the same.

 

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HAHAHA Preposterous

so you're saying white supremacists don't have much power and aren't a clear threat to the world right?

 

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Fascist Fight Clubs: How White Nationalists Use MMA as a Recruiting Tool
Far-right groups across Europe and North America are using mixed martial arts to swell their numbers, spread their ideology and fight their enemies

Many groups, including RAM, view their MMA gyms as training grounds for upcoming race wars. Photograph: Antonio_Diaz/Getty Images/iStockphoto

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/sep/11/far-right-fight-clubs-mma-white-nationalists

In my experience, a ton of those MMA dudes are Libertarian or hold Libertarian beliefs

Easy to see how that could serve as a direct path to becoming a full on white nationalist

 

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In my experience, a ton of those MMA dudes are Libertarian or hold Libertarian beliefs

Easy to see how that could serve as a direct path to becoming a full on white nationalist

Libertarianism has been a gateway to white nationalism and white Supremacy for quit some time.

Libertarian interlectuals careers are basically taking vile racist talking points and finding ways to repackage them so they can be said on the nightly news.

 

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A Deluge of 'Red-Pilled' Rage: Young White Men are Being Radicalized Online and Acting Out Violently

Lane Davis, 33, of Samish Island, WA, was a 'Gamergate' conspiracy theorist who went by the nom de plume 'Seattle4Truth' before stabbing his father to death in an argument over the 'Pizzagate' theory.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...g-radicalized-online-and-acting-out-violently

Something is going wrong—badly, horrifically wrong—with America’s young white men. It’s happening largely online, but it’s seeping into the real world.

Not all of our young white men, of course. Not even a majority of them. But a lot of them, and the numbers are growing. We all not only can sense it, but we can see it with our own eyes. It’s right there in the news. It’s right there in our neighborhoods. In our lives.

Last week, a young white man walked into a bank in Florida, ordered the five women inside to lie down, and then proceeded to terrorize them for several minutes before shooting each of them fatally, most of them in the head and chest. He wasn’t after money. When he was done, he called 911 and waited for police to come arrest him.

Police say they can’t figure out a motive. But people who knew young Zephen Xaver, now 21, back in Indiana say he was a bomb waiting to go off. He spent a lot of time playing computer games and hanging out on online boards. On social media, he favorited Milo Yiannopoulos, the anti-feminist provocateur. Most of all, he hated people and talked about killing them.

Zephen Xaver

Three weeks ago, less than a mile from my home in Seattle, a young man named Buckey Wolfe I had seen from time to time at Proud Boys gatherings in Seattle got into an argument with his brother. He had come to believe this brother was a “lizard person,” à la the crackpot David Icke conspiracy theory. So Buckey took a four-foot sword and stabbed his brother in the head with it, killing him instantly.

It’s reminiscent of another Northwest case I’ve been covering for the past couple of years: Lane Davis, aka “Seattle4Truth,” a onetime researcher for Yiannopoulos and key Gamergate figure who, one afternoon at the home he shared with his parents in rural Samish Island, got into a horrendous argument with his father. The row, which involved Lane’s accusations that his parents were participants in the supposed global pedophilia ring around which the Pizzagate conspiracy theories revolve, culminated with Lane pulling out a large kitchen knife and stabbing his father to death.

Davis eventually pleaded guilty to murder and is now serving a 17-year prison sentence. His mental health was never in question—though the wild-eyed, angry behavior he exhibited the night of his father’s death was anything but normal.

These are not the only cases. Indeed, the list is already long, and it just keeps growing. A sampling:

• In December 2018, a self-described misogynist named Scott Paul Beierle, 40, who devoted hours to online rants against feminists, and whom women considered “really creepy,” went to a Tallahassee, Florida, yoga studio with a gun and opened fire, killing two women and wounding five more. He then killed himself.
• A Tacoma, Washington, man named Jeremy Shaw, along with his wife Lorena, who had become enamored of far-right “sovereign citizen” theories and neo-Nazism (he named his company Aryan Enterprises) plotted the murder of a man who owned a property in a rural wooded section of Renton. After bludgeoning the man to death, the couple attempted to take possession of his home. They also sold off his Star Trek memorabilia.
• In November 2018, a 15-year-old boy named Gregory Ramos who spent most of his time online in video games and chat rooms strangled his mother, Gail Cleavenger, 46, to death following an argument over his bad grades. Ramos was a devoted alt-righter with a “Kekistan” flag as the chief decoration on his Facebook page.
• A teenager from Santa Fe, Texas, named Dimitrios Pagourtzis, 17, entered his high school on May 18, 2018, and opened fire with a variety of guns on his fellow students, killing 10 people and wounding 13.It emerged shortly afterwards that he favored neo-Nazi imagery in his social media posts, along with white-power music bands.
• In Parkland, Florida, a 17-year-old named Nikolas Cruz entered his school on Feb. 14, 2018, and opened fire with an AR-15, killing 17 people and wounding another 17. Cruz also devoted hours to online chat rooms, where he was known to obsess about race, guns, and violence, and frequently espoused racist, anti-Semitic, and anti-LGBT sentiments.
• In December 2017, a Virginia teen caught up in white nationalism online entered the home of his girlfriend in suburban Washington, D.C., killed both of her parents, then shot himself, though not fatally. The parents had tried to keep the teens apart because of his racist beliefs. The boy currently awaits trial in Virginia.

That’s just in the past year or so. The list goes back at least to Elliot Rodger’s rampage in Isla Vista, California, in 2014, and Dylann Roof’s 2015 rampage in Charleston, South Carolina, and includes a significant number of alt-right killings in 2017. Spend some time perusing the Anti-Defamation League’s recent report pointing to right-wing extremism as the source of every single extremism-related murder in 2018, and you will find more evidence of this trend.

What all these cases have in common is not just that the perpetrators are white, and male, and relatively young, and not just that they all are fueled by far-right ideology. The thread among them that may be the most significant is that every one of these young white men has been radicalized online.

They call it “red-pilling,” as though they are the Neos of The Matrix in their own lives and they’re awakening to the reality of a world run by nefarious conspiracies. It’s a conceit with a toxic double bind: Once you believe you see this new reality, then reality itself becomes unmoored.

These theories all tell the same larger narrative: that the world is secretly run by a nefarious cabal of globalists (who just happen to be Jewish), and that they employ an endless catalog of dirty tricks and "false flags" to ensure the world doesn’t know about its manipulations, the whole point of which ultimately is the enslavement of mankind. Each day’s news events can thus be interpreted through the up-is-down prism this worldview imposes, ensuring that every national tragedy or mass shooting is soon enmeshed in a web of theories about its real purpose.

The radical Right itself has little compunction about identifying its target demographic for red-pilling. Andrew Anglin, publisher and founder of the neo-Nazi site the Daily Stormer, asserted last year, "My site is mainly designed to target children." At the annual white-nationalist American Renaissance conference in Tennessee in April 2018, longtime supremacists bragged about their demographic support: "American Renaissance attendees are now younger and more evenly divided among the sexes than in the past," one speaker noted, before gushing over the white-nationalist college campus group Identity Evropa.

When authorities, both in the U.S. and abroad, have talked about online radicalization in the recent past, most of us have tended to think of it in terms of radical Islamists from groups such as the Islamic State, who have been known to leverage the technology to their advantage, particularly social media. A study by terrorism expert J.M. Berger published in 2016 found that white nationalists were far outstripping their Islamist counterparts, however: "On Twitter, ISIS’s preferred social platform, American white nationalist movements have seen their followers grow by more than 600 percent since 2012. Today, they outperform ISIS in nearly every social metric, from follower counts to tweets per day."

“Online radicalization seems to be speeding up, with young men, particularly white men, diving into extremist ideologies quicker and quicker," Berger said, adding that "the result seems to be more violence, as these examples indicate. It is a serious problem and we don’t seem to have any real solutions for it. These cases also show that an era of violence brought on by the internet is indeed upon us, with no end in sight.”

The radicalization process itself often begins with seemingly benign activity, such as spending hours in chat rooms or playing computer games, and these activities provide a kind of cover for the process as it accelerates.

Think of the young men in MAGA hats who surrounded and harassed a Native American man in Washington, D.C., recently. Much of the uproar that followed was undergirded by a general recognition that what many of us saw was a cluster of young radicalized white men—the nascent stages of the process. And the right-wing blowback over that furor, in which liberals were derided as trying to attack innocent young white men, was immense.

Regardless of the political orientation of this radicalization, what we also know is that the red-pilling process has a singularly unhinging effect. In cases of men such as Buckey Wolfe, it’s difficult to unspool the interaction of the conspiracism with pre-existing mental illness. In cases such as those of Lane Davis and Gregory Ramos, the line is much clearer. The conspiracy theories themselves have a powerful effect of socially and politically isolating the people who fall down their rabbit holes, and their content often fuels a hyperirrational anger that eventually expresses itself in violence.

What’s also clear is that it is happening right in front of our eyes. And for some reason, no one wants to talk about it.

 

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It's not really a theory, it is a fact. White women across the Western world tend to have less than 2.1 children. It's not a conspiracy though...it's not like us blacks and browns are brainwashing them into not having children. They don't wanna procreate it's their business. I dislike this article because despite shining light on the racist motivations for pointing out this 'conspiracy' anyone who thinks demographics don't matter is fooling themselves. There's a reason throughout history the victors of war kill all the men and take the women.

 

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Tallahassee Yoga Shooter Was A Far-Right Misogynist Who Railed Against Women And Minorities Online

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https://www.buzzfeednews.com/articl...e-yoga-shooter-incel-far-right-misogyny-video

Scott Beierle killed two women at a Florida yoga studio on Friday night. He had posted a series of misogynistic videos and songs online, and appeared to identify as an “involuntarily celibate." This is the second deadly attack by an “involuntarily celibate” in 2018.

The man who shot dead two women at a yoga studio in Tallahassee, Florida, on Friday before killing himself was a far-right extremist and self-proclaimed misogynist who railed against women, black people, and immigrants in a series of online videos and songs.

Scott Beierle, 40, was named by Tallahassee Police as the gunman who opened fire inside the Hot Yoga Tallahassee studio, killing two and injuring four other women and a man.

Those killed were named as Dr. Nancy Van Vessem, 61, who worked at Florida State University's College of Medicine, and FSU student Maura Binkley, 21.

On a YouTube channel in 2014, Beierle filmed several videos of himself offering extremely racist and misogynistic opinions in which he called women “sluts” and “whores,” and lamented “the collective treachery” of girls he went to high school with.

“There are whores in — not only every city, not only every town, but every village,” he said, referring to women in interracial relationships, who he said had betrayed “their blood.”

Officer Damon Miller of the Tallahassee Police Department said he could not tell BuzzFeed News whether women were specifically targeted in the attack or whether these online posts were the subject of detectives’ inquiries.

“Everything that he has a connection to we're investigating right now," Miller said.

Police said they were still investigating a motive, but noted Beierle had previously been investigated for harassing women.

In one video called “Plight of the Adolescent Male,” he named Elliot Rodger, who killed six people and injured 14 and is often seen as a hero for so-called “incels,” or those who consider themselves “involuntarily celibate.”

“I’d like to send a message now to the adolescent males... that are in the position, the situation, the disposition of Elliot Rodger, of not getting any, no love, no nothing. This endless wasteland that breeds this longing and this frustration. That was me, certainly, as an adolescent,” he said.

This is the second deadly attack this year in which Rodger has been mentioned by the suspected assailant. A man who wrote anti-women references on his Facebook account allegedly killed 10 people in Toronto in Aprilwhen he drove his van into a crowd. “The Incel Rebellion has already begun!” Alek Minassian wrote on Facebook prior to the attack in a post that also mentioned “the Supreme Gentleman Elliot Rodger!”

Some in the incel community have previously raged against women wearing yoga pants.



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Another of Beierle’s 2014 videos was titled “The Rebirth of my Misogynism,” and featured him listing the names of women — from eighth grade until his time in the Army — who he said caused his “rebirth.” (A Pentagon spokesperson told BuzzFeed News Beierle served from 2008-2010).

In the video he said women were capable of “treachery” and “lying.” He spoke aggressively about women giving him their phone number even when they had a boyfriend and how angry it made him. He also mentioned a girl who cancelled dates on him. “I could have ripped her head off,” he said.

Unlike the YouTube videos, his songs on Soundcloud were all uploaded in the last few months. Shortly before Friday’s shooting, Beierle uploaded one song called “fukk ’Em All,” with the lyrics: “To hell with the boss that won’t get off my back / To hell with the girl I can’t get in the sack.”

Another song, called “Nobody’s Type,” featured him lamenting that women didn’t find him attractive. “I’m no athletic shark. I’m not a physical specimen. I don’t win the trophies and medals. Nobody stands in awe of me,” he sang.

In “American ******,” he sang that he would “blow off” the head of a women he referred to using the c-word. The song “Locked in my Basement” featured an extremely disturbing tale of Beierle holding a woman prisoner in his basement using chains so he could rape her.

Representatives for YouTube and Soundcloud didn't immediately respond to requests for comment.

Beierle’s political affiliations were not immediately clear, but he was highly critical of the Obama administration in his 2014 videos. In one video, he said that he resented having to subsidize as a taxpayer “the casual sex lives of slutty girls” through the Affordable Care Act’s contraception provisions. In the same video he also criticized “the invasion of Central American children” in the US that year and said the migrants seeking asylum should be deported on barges.

The Tallahassee shooting comes after a spate of deadly violence from the far-right in the past two weeks. On Oct. 27, a far-right extremist shouting anti-Semitic phrases opened fire in a Pittsburgh synagogue, killing 11. That came just three days after a man shot dead two black people in Louisville, Kentucky, in an attack authorities have described as a hate crime.

In a punk song he made called “Don’t Shame,” Beierle sang of walking into a girl’s locker room and going on “***-grabbing rampage of underage girls.” He also spoke about grabbing women in the song “Handful of Bare ***.” The Tallahassee Democrat newspaper reported he had been arrested in 2012 and 2016 for grabbing women’s buttocks without their consent. Prosecutors eventually dropped charges in both cases, according to the newspaper.

“I have no shame, but this is to blame. I would do anything. I just don’t care. I have no fear of any consequences,” he sang.

“I am pro-death," the song continued. "The more that die the merrier."