Stormfront grows a thriving neo-Nazi community

[donsu]

http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=551


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To the thousands of white supremacists who regularly visit Stormfront and its forum, Kelso is best known by his e-moniker, "Charles A Lindbergh." He signs off all his posts with a quote from Lindbergh, a well-known racist and anti-Semite: "We can have peace and security only as long as we band together to preserve that most priceless possession, our inheritance of European blood."

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The aviator, were he still alive, might well admire Kelso. As Stormfront celebrates its 10th birthday — the first major hate site on the Internet, it was created by former Alabama Klan leader Don Black in 1995 — Kelso has much to be proud of. In the three years he's been a senior moderator of the site, it has grown from fewer than 10,000 registered users to, as of mid-June, an astounding 52,566. And while many thousands of that ever-growing total probably haven't visited in years, independent Web monitors recently ranked Stormfront the 338th largest electronic forum on the Internet, putting it easily into the top 1% of all sites on the World Wide Web.

Black and Kelso have created something more than just another hate site that draws people for a few months, then fades for lack of interest. Using everything from good manners to "white scholarships" to such catchy gimmicks as highlighting its members' birthdays, these two men have built something that very few people on the entire Internet have — a genuine and very large cyber-community. That they did it at a time when major neo-Nazi groups are on the decline is merely icing.

"Without a doubt," Bob DeMarais, a former staff member of the neo-Nazi National Alliance (see related story), wrote recently, "Stormfront is the most powerful active influence in the White Nationalist movement."
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this is a long article with details and it ends with:

"I'd hate to think," Trippi says, "what Hitler could've done with the Internet."

[Behind the Aegis]

1. Jew hating...

...it's always "en vogue."

[Karenina]

5. This is not just about

"Jew-hating." When one is a "member" of many minorities, perspectives do grow.

[Behind the Aegis]

6. I am a member of multiple minorities.

The Nazis primary focus is on Jews, just as the Klan is on Blacks. It doesn't mean that the two do not hate others.

[Wabbajack]

2. You know what's REALLY scary

These freaks are actually more reasonable than Freepers on some issues. :scared:

[Ms. Clio]

3. Damn, I never even heard of these crazy mofos--thanks for posting this

I also think the numbers given in the piece are surprising--with almost 75,000 members, that means DU is also well within the top 1%, something I had never really realized before.

[Rich Hunt]

4. I'm fascinated and horrified by it

Sometimes I want to see what's there, but I have a natural aversion to swastikas, shaved heads and hard looks...they just chill me to the bone.

I do get curious sometimes.

But that SPL stuff is good reading.