Daily Stormer The Most Censored Publication in History
Andrew Anglin
Daily Stormer
June 29, 2015
I was not really into talking to the reporters who were emailing me last week, trying to track down the source of true hatred in these tubes, and only ended up talking to that LA Times guy. I had instinctively assumed it was all just going to be more trickery. But really the articles they’ve written haven’t been all that bad.
Yesterday’s Daily Beast piece about this site and 4chan and Reddit is surprisingly impartial. Though it doesn’t take much impartiality to surprise me when it comes to the Jewish media establishment, especially on the liberal end of it.
From it:
Before running The Daily Stormer, the 30-year-old Anglin ran a site called Total Fascism. Like many other Americans his age, he is fluent in digital culture and its unique approach to racial hatred. His popularity—the site’s traffic has grown continually since 2013, the L.A. Times reported—comes as much from knowing his audience as from his ideas.
“A lot of people on the Internet prefer to write long essays, which a lot of people don’t read, which have a limited audience,” he told the L.A. Times about the founding of The Daily Stormer, sounding like any other online editor. “I wanted something punchy and funny and enjoyable to read.”
Then he added: “I believe white people deserve their own country.”
Anglin, who occasionally writes the white nationalist version of media criticism, and devotes much of his coverage to what he sees as the Jewish-controlled liberal establishment’s cover-up of black-on-white crime, has studied the digital landscape. He cites 4chan as a touchstone and looks to Reddit as the natural arena in which to expand his neo-fascist enterprise. His site exists in a feedback loop with both of them, exchanging ideas and members alike.
“Daily Stormer is a perfect example for me of the influence 4chan has had on the rest of the messaging machine for white supremacy,” Keegan Hankes of the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups, tells me. Hankes has written about Reddit’s emergence as the single largest gathering place for racists online and how he first sussed out the connection between Roof and The Daily Stormer. He sees the style of racism originally perfected on 4Chan’s message boards—where the racism is only as effective as the meme that spreads it—as a template for Anglin’s site. “A lot of the same images, a lot of the same rhetorical styles are being emulated on Daily Stormer and it’s pretty successful. The website has taken off.”
The Daily Stormer has succeeded by marketing itself to younger people who prefer droll commentary to the stern politics of an older generation of racist sites—and, crucially, by hitching its fascism to a wider reaction against political correctness and left-wing activism. Even the most rabid Gamergaters, men’s rights activists and anti-social justice warriors tend not to think of themselves as fascists. Anglin and others like him want to change that by radicalizing the center and moving the discourse on to their own grounds. That effort has been aided invaluably by the anonymous shock troops on Internet message boards.
The writer, Jacob Siegel, then goes through a brief history of internet tollism, closes with this:
A new round of battles in the culture war over gamer gate, policing, and rape culture are also about the country’s changing demographics and shifts in political influence and cultural values, and have opened up fault lines that are useful to people like Andrew Anglin.
“Right now,” Anglin wrote, “a divide is happening. And there are only going to be two sides. Either you are with the SJWs [social justice warriors] or you are with the Fascists.” That’s the gambit. We’ll see who falls for it.
But don’t let the apparent near-impartiality confuse you. Presumably, this is all leading up to some unified call by all of these outlets to completely ban free speech on the internet. The New York Times has already published op-eds saying this needs to be done.
They are constantly now making the point that Roof was attached to no organization, and acted alone, but then claiming he acted because of stuff he read on the internet. It is transparent that this is leading up to a major campaign during the coming Age of Hillary to shut down free speech in America.
They are laying the groundwork by simply pointing out what we are saying, and vaguely implying it is evil, trying to temp the reader into viewing it as evil and in need of a good old fashioned shutting down.
The Real Solution to Dylann Roof
If Roof is what they say he was – a frustrated person on the internet who acted alone because of internet hatred – than the solution is to get disenfranchised White youth into groups. If Roof had been a member of something like the National Youth Front or TradYouth, there would have been support and he wouldn’t have done this insane act. That is, if we accept that he was acting out of a real political motivation and not drugs and mental illness, which I have asserted are the real issues here.
But real issues will never get discussed in this context. After all, following the Batman shooting, there was no one investigating the themes of Batman or calling for a national discussion about the role of Batman in society.
