The most recent (December 2017) issue of The Atlantic features a cover story about Andrew Anglin, founder of The Daily Stormer. It's a long read and a frankly disturbing one. It's a real eye-opener for anyone who doubts the intensity of hatred in modern America. I'll place an excerpt below the fold...
On December 16, 2016, Tanya Gersh answered her phone and heard gunshots. Startled, she hung up. Gersh, a real-estate agent who lives in Whitefish, Montana, assumed it was a prank call. But the phone rang again. More gunshots. Again, she hung up. Another call. This time, she heard a man’s voice: “This is how we can keep the Holocaust alive,” he said. “We can bury you without touching you.”...The full article is here.
The calls marked the start of a months-long campaign of harassment orchestrated by Andrew Anglin, the publisher of the world’s biggest neo-Nazi website, The Daily Stormer...
Anglin “doxed” Gersh and her husband, Judah, as well as other Jews in Whitefish, by publishing their contact information and other personal details on his website. He plastered their photographs with yellow stars emblazoned with JUDE and posted a picture of the Gershes’ 12-year-old son superimposed on the gates at Auschwitz. He commanded his readers—his “Stormer Troll Army”—to “hit ’em up.”
“All of you deserve a bullet through your skull,” one Stormer said in an email.
“Put your uppity slut wife Tanya back in her cage, you rat-faced kike,” another wrote to Judah.
“You fucking wicked kike whore,” Andrew Auernheimer, The Daily Stormer’s webmaster, said in a voicemail for Gersh. “This is Trump’s America now.”
I read it, and it is very disturbing.
ReplyDeleteI cannot fathom how someone can HATE another people so virulently. I can fathom how someone might deeply hate a PERSON. But to hate groups of people is to take what is really quite abstract and STILL be able to hate them as though they EACH did some deeply harmful thing to you. I just cannot understand how anyone allows such hatred to take such deep root.
ReplyDeleteI think it's precisely the abstractness that makes it easier. Much less confronting than hating individuals, what with them having human traits and all.
DeleteThat's the problem with these fools, there's no logic, it's entirely irrational, and stupid. You can't fix stupid.
ReplyDeleteSo in a land of 330 million people, a couple of thousand people "intensely hate" in modern America. How about a little perspective to the numbers. There will always be those that "intensely hate" in a free society. The ratio of those who do vs. those that don't is far better than it has ever been in America.
ReplyDeleteIt's hard to know how precisely something like "intense hate" can be measured. But let's accept your assertion that it is "far better than it has ever been." Does that mean we should accept it and it should be allowed to exist? I can guarantee you that the rate of tuberculosis in this country is "far better" than it was before the development of INH and other drugs. Should we no longer treat it? Should we not use the polio vaccine because the numbers are far better than they have ever been? I don't understand what you're upset about.
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