Hate
site’s members linked to 100 murders in 5 years
Stormfront.org,
America’s most popular online hate site founded in 1995 by former Ku Klux Klan
leader Don Black, has registered members that Southern Poverty Law Center linked
to almost 100 murders in the past five years.
One
of its most popular “social groups” is “Fans and Supporters of Adolf Hitler.” They
sometimes call the Holocaust the “Holohoax.”
Even
the website title, Stormfront, sounds like a variation of the Nazi
stormtroopers of World War II infamy.
200,000
to 400,000 Americans visit the site monthly. They are mostly white, bigoted, young
(64% are under 30) and male (70%).
Targets
are African-Americans, which is not surprising, Mexicans, gays and Jews (they do love Hitler, remember).
The biggest
increase in membership in Stormfront’s history, by far, was Nov. 5, 2008, the
day after Barack Obama was elected President.
Hate
is not relegated to the poor and unemployed: Economists Roland G. Fryer Jr. and
Steven D. Levitt found that Ku Klux Klan members were better educated than the
typical American.
To
read the entire New York Times article, click on http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/13/opinion/sunday/seth-stephens-davidowitz-the-data-of-hate.html?_r=0
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