in our last round of "Year in Hate" essays, @MeganSquire0 and I looked at how Telegram has changed the white power movement.
“If [a group has] got a logo, a name, and an online presence, that’s three strikes, run for your life,” wrote one channel. splcenter.org/news/2021/02/1…
in a similar vein, @cassiepmiller looked back at how accelerationism came to be at the forefront of the far right at the end of the Trump era. splcenter.org/news/2021/02/1…
next, I looked back at the moves Big Tech made this year, including various steps this past year to boot QAnon groups and other extremists—not to mention the, well, president—from their platforms. Jan. 6 demonstrated that they were too late in doing so. splcenter.org/news/2021/02/1…
please stop calling things a "new religion" when the term you're looking for is "social movement that i don't like." persuasion.community/p/john-mcwhort…
once again, what you're describing is a strawman social movement that you don't like, not a religion. thank you.
*grabs bullhorn* read another book!
(i'm not even bothering with conflating calvinism with catholicism here)
.@MeganSquire0 tracked transactions of over 70 accounts associated with a number of different extremists. some of the top earners are well on their way to making over $100,000 on the site per year.
one of the top earners, white nationalist Nick Fuentes (who participated in the 2017 "Unite the Right" rally), recently said on his stream that he wanted "Roman salute" Trump. the gesture is also known as a Hitler salute.
here's my latest (and first) for @splinter_news on how a small group of white nationalists used an email thread known as "morning hate" to push their movement's message through the conservative media and think tank sphere. splinternews.com/leaked-emails-…
@splinter_news since the so-called alt-right's inception in 2008, it has focused on infiltrating institutions to push its message. paul gottfried, the man who co-created the term with richard spencer, argued this in his 2008 speech to the H.L. Mencken Club.
@splinter_news over the past couple of years we've seen a number of white nationalists outed as employees at the daily caller. see, for instance, scott greer, who was the managing editor of radix journal. what we have here is more insight into how fascists used the platform for their message.