The Daily Stormer

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The Daily Stormer
The World's Most Genocidal Republican Website
right-wing extremist news portal
languages English and Spanish
editorial staff Andrew Anglin et al
user > 300,000 (as of 2015)
On-line 2013

The Daily Stormer (TDS) is a neo-Nazi , anti-Semitic website in the USA in the style of a news portal. She described herself as the mouthpiece of the Alt-Right . Google and GoDaddy suspended the Daily Stormer after the riot and the Charlottesville assassination in August 2017.

history

The site was founded in 2013 by the fascist network activist Andrew Anglin. The name refers to the Nazi propaganda newspaper Der Stürmer from the Third Reich .

Hosting difficulties

In August 2017, the site was blocked by the operator GoDaddy and Google as a result of the riots in Charlottesville, as the counter-demonstrator who died in the process had been mocked.

The site was initially only available in the darknet and could only be accessed episodically in the clearnet, as the operators had difficulties buying a domain name and an internet connection to host the server. The website is currently hosted by a Chinese provider under the .su domain of the former Soviet Union .

Content

The site describes itself as The world's most visited old right web site . Together with Stormfront , The Daily Stormer is one of the largest hate speech websites on the Internet. The content of The Daily Stormer can be assigned to the idea of white supremacy and is openly anti-Semitic and racist . Typical is the use of memes like Pepe the frog . The design of the headers is often changed, using symbols such as the imperial eagle and the swastika . During the 2016 presidential election , the site called for Donald Trump to be elected.

According to a 17-page document that was published in an internal chat, the target audience is people who previously had little contact with right-wing extremist ideologies. Readers should first be made curious by the "bad humor" and gradually internalize the ideology. Jews or “Jewish feminism ” are made responsible for everything. The manual also gives tips on insulting blacks, Latinos, Jews, people of Asian descent, gays and women. Swear words should predominantly be used in articles that were written in a “half-joking” tone, but should be avoided in serious articles. Stereotypical jokes about hateful racists are very welcome, as this way the reader cannot tell at first glance whether something is meant seriously or not. According to its own statements, the Daily Stormer has a “ troll army” that reacts with attacks on targeted persons and groups, which enables the Daily Stormer to get out of responsibility. According to the internal manual, the plan is to "dehumanize the enemy to the point where people are ready to laugh at his death". Although it is illegal to call for violence on the Internet or to welcome it, at the same time it is "totally important" to normalize the acceptance of violence as a contingency or inevitability.

Media like the Independent and Zeit Online describe the Daily Stormer as a neo-Nazi site . The civil rights organization Southern Poverty Law Center called the Daily Stormer the "Top Hate Site in America".

effect

In 2017, 21-year-old white Dylann Roof shot and killed nine people attending a Bible study in Charleston for racist reasons . The Southern Poverty Law Center analyzed Roof's Manifesto and concluded that he was a regular reader and contributor to The Daily Stormer .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Nellie Bowles: To Sue Founder of Daily Stormer, a Neo-Nazi Site, First He Must Be Found. In: nytimes.com. August 20, 2017, accessed September 10, 2017 .
  2. ^ A b c Judith Bessant: Right-Wing Populism and Young 'Stormers': Conflict in Democratic Politics . In: Sarah Pickard, Judith Bessant (ed.): Young People Re-Generating Politics in Times of Crises (= James Sloam, Constance Flanagan, Bronwyn Hayward [ed.]: Palgrave Studies in Young People and Politics . No. 1 ). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham 2017, ISBN 978-3-319-58250-4 , pp. 143 ff ., doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-319-58250-4_8 (Copyright 2018).
  3. ^ A b Adam Klein: Fanaticism, Racism, and Rage Online . Palgrave Macmillan , 2017, ISBN 978-3-319-51424-6 , pp. 68 ff ., doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-319-51424-6 .
  4. ↑ Daily Stormer being dumped by GoDaddy . In: CBS News . August 14, 2017 (English).
  5. ↑ Romain Dillet: The Daily Stormer was back online for a quick second. In: TechCrunch. Retrieved August 20, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Archived edition of April 1, 2016
  7. ↑ Karolin Schwarz: Hate Warriors. The new global right-wing extremism. Herder, Freiburg 2020, p. 60 ff.
  8. ↑ Patrick Beuth: "Daily Stormer": No network for Nazis. In: zeit.de. August 17, 2017. Retrieved September 11, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Schwarz, p. 61
  10. ↑ Dylann Roof's manifesto resembles comments on neo-Nazi website, analysis finds . In: Los Angeles Times , June 22, 2015. Retrieved June 30, 2015.