Before he became one of the country’s most prominent Internet neo-Nazis, Andrew Anglin was an anti-racist vegan whose favorite band was the indie group Modest Mouse. A lengthy profile in the Atlantic chronicles Anglin’s transformation from shy teen to racist troll. Anglin grew up in Worthington Hills, an upper-middle-class neighborhood in Columbus, Ohio. He collected…
A major neo-Nazi website has dubbed Papa John’s the “official pizza of the ‘alt-right,’” in apparent praise of the company’s criticism of the ongoing NFL national anthem protests. “So Papa John is a major, long-standing sponsor of the NFL. And yet even they’re panicked about what’s going on,” a blogger for the Daily Stormer wrote…
Over the last year the “alt-right” white nationalist movement has sought to look as non-threatening as possible in hopes of reaching a more mainstream audience. This includes an unofficial type of preppy uniform, haircut — and music genre. “The alt-right struggled to find a sound appropriate to its carefully constructed façade,” the Southern Poverty Law…
The Neo-Nazi site the Daily Stormer is encouraging flash mobs at minority and Jewish institutions near University of Florida to coincide with a scheduled speech by white nationalist Richard Spencer later today. Among the addresses posted by the neo-Nazi site were the local Chabad Center and the Institute of Black Culture. Neo-Nazi site the Daily…
Andrew Anglin, editor of the neo-Nazi Daily Stormer website, told an Israeli television channel on Tuesday that he supported Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s son Yair for posted an anti-Semitic meme last week. “I stand with Yair and his memes and I’m glad to see that there’s an alt-right in Israel who are standing against the…
The neo-Nazi Daily Stormer website, which praised Yair Netanyahu as a “total bro” after he posted an anti-Semitic meme over the weekend now features the prime minister’s son in celebratory — but also mocking — banner across its homepage. The banner says that the Daily Stormer is now “The World’s #1 Yair Netanyahu fansite.” The…
The comedian and writer Dean Obeidallah filed a defamation lawsuit against the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer on Wednesday, just as the site has been booted from a series of online hosts over the last two days. The site’s publisher Andrew Anglin falsely claimed in June that Obeidallah, an American Muslim who hosts a Sirius…
A new website is positioned to become the go-to crowdfunding platform for the “alt-right.” It’s called Hatreon, a play on the name of the popular fundraising site Patreon, and has attracted high profile clients — like white nationalists Richard Spencer and neo-Nazi Andrew Anglin. Anglin draws about $700 per month on Hatreon, while Spencer is…
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