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The coward who gunned down 49 Muslim worshippers in New Zealand left behind a white-nationalist screed rationalizing his mass murder as a necessary act to preserve the white race. The manifesto is striking for its trolling—its combination of fanaticism, insincerity, and attempts at irony. The killer was particularly obsessed with the idea of “white genocide,” a…
Jason Kessler outside the Charlottesville City Hall on August 13, 2017 in Charlottesville, Virginia Photo: Getty Last summer’s infamous neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, Virginia was supposedly about “free speech.” But that claim was always ridiculous. The latest evidence? Jason Kessler, one of the organizers of the rally, sued a woman for swearing at him. And…
I tweeted what was intended as satire of a festering right-wing panic over Antifa allegedly planning violence on November 4. It got weird from there. What is it like to attend your own funeral? In my mind, it has to be something like waking up on a Monday morning, logging onto Twitter, and finding out…
Tiki Brand said it’s “not associated” with torch-bearing protestors who chanted “white lives matter” at a rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Aug. 11. Tiki Brand is distancing itself from white nationalists who used tiki torches in a protest march in Charlottesville, Virginia. “Tiki Brand is not associated in any way with the events that took…
Neo-Nazis met in Washington, D.C., last week to celebrate Donald Trump‘s presidential victory and proclaim that their time has come. Video captured by the Atlantic shows the group using Nazi salutes and shouting “Heil!” to the president-elect’s victory. Punching Nazis, otherwise known as “fash-bashing,” is part of a long, storied tradition of anti-fascist violence, carried…