Stormfront.org is widely considered to be the most racist site on the net. Many people accuse the people frequenting it of showing more supremacist ideology than anywhere else, but does stormfront.org really deserve it's reputation?
Short answer? Yes, yes it does. The first complaint I have with stormfront.org is the insistence of many of it's posters that they are not "white supremacists" but are rather "white nationalists", meaning that they don't want to oppress anyone, they just want the "white race" to live seperatly from other races. What they generally don't mention, but is easily discernible from a few hours lurking, is that in order to acheive this aim, they're willing to use pretty much any means, up to and including killing, in order to make that happen. Sounds just like racism to me.
Another beef I have is the perpetuation that races are a biological reality. This is plain wrong. I could be convinced into believing that once, hundreds of thousands of years ago, there may really have been seperate races. However even that's only a maybe, and only then if you gather a world of evidence to support it. Fact is, race is a social construct, not reality.
Finally, the (in my opinion) ridiculous idea that if you do not follow their racist beliefs, that somehow makes you a racist??! I never quite understood that because halfway through the explanation I got fed up and left, but it didn't seem to be making sense anyway.Check out stormfront if you must, but fully expect to be inundated with people ordering you out of "their" country or threatening you with death. On the other hand, White Supremacists though most of them be, there are a good number of people there working to refute and counter the racism they spout. If nothing else, it's worth dropping by just to offer them your support.
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