Stormfront provided some excellent comments and points to build off of when talking about how racial purity and racial genocide relate to hate crimes. The number of posts that are either directly about genocide, or at least contain talk of genocide and purity, is immense. Even when one searches Stormfront about a subject other than white purity, there will most likely be a mention of it, and how people of color are threatening it. One of the main causes of genocide that is mentioned is multiculturalism. The threat that multiculturalism causes in the minds of white nationalists is dangerous and of the utmost importance to them.
In the First post that I stumbled upon, a British woman (who seems to be under the influence) is shown screaming racial epithets and degrading the other passengers on the metro, many of which are black. The woman tells the black passengers over and over again, that they are not English because they are black. This publicly racist rant goes on for about two and a half minutes, and the other passengers are clearly aggravated after being told to “go back to their country” because they have ruined England. The posts that follow the thread about the video on Stormfront sympathize with the white woman on the tram and agree that the influx of people of color into England, as well as the U.S., is a major factor in what they view as the downfall of white nations. Many of the posters relate this immigration and multiculturalism as the end of racial purity in places like England, and they make harsh statements against this multiculturalism. At one point in the video, a white woman puts her arm around a black man who seems furious about the racial epithets being thrown around. One Stormfront member remarked about this with, “Mudshark at 1:42 hugging that primate in the back ground. Remember her face. She is forever tainted as a mudshark.” This kind of outright hatred of multiculturalism is the type of ideology that is behind many of the hate crimes that are committed against interracial couples. This language portrays the how seriously white supremacists hate multiculturalism, as well as how threatened they feel by these couples. One of the first things we learned in this course was the 14 words, and knowing that this is a main point in white nationalist ideology relates directly to this post topic.
Another post that I found on Stormfront seemed to be a bit out of the ordinary for this forum. This post titled “Apparently I don’t have my head on straight…” was posted by a white woman who claims to be a White Nationalist, but is asking why she is unrecognized by other nationalists because she has friends of color. This thread topic was met by numerous comments telling Ola that she is not a real White Nationalist if this is how she behaves, and asking why she has befriended black people. Some commenters shared links to news stories (mainly nationalist news sources) about black male hyper-sexuality and rape cases, saying that she will meet the same end if she continues to spend time with black men. Ola describes that she is pro-future for the white race, and would not date a person of color, and that she does not see any problem with having friends of different races. This is the point where commenters respond by saying she is a race traitor, that her belief system is flawed, that she does not care about a future for white children if she acts like this, and that they would rather associate with a trailer trash white person rather than a black doctor.
Both of these posts are colorful illustrations of how multiculturalism is viewed as the genocide of the white race by nationalists. White purity is held to the highest standards by them, and they feel that they must vehemently protect it through the spread of rhetoric, ideological views, and even by carrying out hate crimes.
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