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Killing 8chan: The Heart of Modern Nazi Terrorism [CW]
Anon | August 3rd, 2018
CW: extreme language, slurs
The forum known as 8chan (8ch) is not just Susan’s racist grandpa, it’s the center of the most extreme branch of modern white-nationalism and wannabe right-wing terrorist death squads. They will no doubt take this as a compliment and object only to the fact that they’re “wannabe” death squads, insisting that they’ve already begun. This is true of course. Accounts of internet-bred white nationalist terrorism are on the rise and meanwhile there are countless threads on 8ch dedicated to arming yourself and preparing for the time when you will be called upon to form your own death-squad.
I can’t count the number of threads I’ve seen with people discussing what bureaucratic or ultra-violent job they would want in their fantasy of the coming white-power overthrow. Or even just ways to get away with killing trans people and other minorities now. They have a fetish for the extreme minutiae, discussing things like modernizing Auschwitz and world-building with esoteric Evola meets internet troll culture inspired kekistani religions. This is the kind of place where mass shooters are born. Just visiting 8ch would probably be enough to get an accessory or conspiracy charge if the feds ever decided to care about white terrorism.
The users are very conscious of being the vanguard that births white supremacy into the acceptable window of mainstream discourse, or Overton Window. The worst memes usually come from them and they run countless meme pages on mainstream social media sites like Twitter. You may have noticed that more and more explicitly white supremacist candidates are running for political office.
Through a modified search you can see a run-down of the various candidates that 8ch users have advocated and organized for. Many of them are even happy to support candidates they know will lose, such as the white-supremacist Patrick Little or the pedo and nazi Nathan Larson, just to shift public opinion and create openings for their world. But sometimes they back candidates that win such as the open neo-nazi, Arthur Jones. They’re messy with infighting and purity spirals but some of them are very strategic, self-actualized fascists.
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