Dylann Roof, apparently a regular commenter at The Daily Stormer, learned his hatred online

[ismnotwasm]

After this terrible “discovery,” Roof wrote, “I researched deeper,” ultimately “[finding] out about the Jewish problem and other issues facing our race, and I can say today that I am completely racially aware.”

One of the places he conducted this “research” was, evidently, the Daily Stormer. A researcher at the Southern Poverty Law Center has discovered that a number of passages in Roof’s manifesto are virtually identical to comments left on The Daily Stormer by someone calling himself AryanBlood1488. It seems likely that this was Roof himself.

Just as Elliot Rodger seems to have picked up some of his misogynistic beliefs from PUAhate, a site whose best-known moderator at the time was a regular contributor to A Voice for Men, Roof seems to have picked up some of his “racial awareness” at The Daily Stormer, a site appealing to many of the same people — literally the same people — who regularly read and comment on popular “manosphere” sites like the proudly racist Chateau Heartiste and Roosh Valizadeh’s Return of Kings, which recently ran a long Naziesque screed, by Roosh himself, on the evils of “degenerate” and “cosmopolitan” Jews.

No, The Daily Stormer doesn’t see eye-to-eye on everything with pickup-oriented manospherans like Heartiste and Roosh; Daily Stormer founder Andrew Anglin thinks pickup artistry is “pure snake oil” and doesn’t consider Roosh to be sufficiently white. But he’s also praised Roosh’s “anti-Jew article” as “excellent.” As Anglin sees it, Roosh

no doubt sees which way the winds are blowing, and is attempting … to keep his media base in tact in the face of rising Nazism.

And it goes without saying that Anglin is as violently misogynistic as any of those I write about on this site; recent headlines on his site include Jew Announces a Bitch to be Featured on $10 Bill and God Should be a Bitch Says Church of England’s Slut Priestesses.

http://wehuntedthemammoth.com/2015/06/23/dylann-roof-apparently-a-regular-commenter-at-the-daily-stormer-learned-his-hatred-online/

[Sean23]

1. The war on christianity

But wait I thought the shooting was about the war on christianity!(sarcasm)

[Kalidurga]

2. That's 2 hate groups Roof is associated with

Council of Conservative Citizens, who are also very involved in politics and gave money to a whole lot of Republicans was the other. I wonder if that's the only two or if there were more, not that it matters how many, it is apparent he was involved enough to gather enough fuel for his hate. I hope that the FBI and Homeland Security can somehow shut down these terrorist organizations.

[mercuryblues]

3. the same people

The Daily Stormer, a site appealing to many of the same people — literally the same people — who regularly read and comment on popular “manosphere” sites like the proudly racist Chateau Heartiste and Roosh

seen that in action.

[DustyJoe]

4. Ban it all

In the vein of all the other threads calling to ban flags, ban words and ban writings I guess this is the clarion call to ban the interwebs as driving murderous intentions.

[starroute]

5. Not surprisingly, The Daily Stormer strongly supports GamerGate

I'm not going to link to any of their stuff, but here's a piece on GamerGate that makes the connection.

http://www.diplomaticourier.com/news/topics/security/2499-when-the-internet-breeds-hate

Over the course of six months, GamerGate became the melting pot for the worst of the internet. Violent sexism, homophobia, and transphobia have been the most common and outspoken sentiments of GamerGate, but not far beneath the surface are virulent strains of anti-Semitism, racism, and neo Nazism. As the movement progressed, the rhetoric began parroting concepts from white supremacy groups, men’s rights advocates, and a popular culture perception of the military. When the movement became too extreme, Reddit put restrictions on the movement’s “operations” and email campaigns, and even the notorious 4chan removed any discussion of GamerGate from its boards. Angered about the perceived attack on their “free speech”, the movement found refuge on 8chan, a discussion board site described by The Washington Post as “the most lawless, more libertarian, more ‘free’ follow-up to 4chan.” The site’s founder, Frederick Brennan—a man who wrote a pro-eugenics article for the neo-Nazi website, The Daily Stormer—made 8chan to combat what he perceived as a loss of free speech on the internet.

[AuntPatsy]

6. Kicking