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Stormfront is a white supremacist website that began as a dial-up BBS in 1990 and has been on the Internet since 1995. Stormfront has had as many as 4,865 users logged in at one time and over 58,000 members. It is the largest online community of White Nationalists and has claimed to be the first website of such. Some of its members describe themselves as "National Socialists", among other descriptions.

Owner & members

The site is run by Don Black, a right-wing conservative and self-described racialist and former leader of the Ku Klux Klan. Stormfront calls itself a "Racialist discussion board for pro-White activists and anyone else interested in White survival". Most of the members of Stormfront say that they are opposed to any form of "race-mixing" between the human races and support various forms of racism. The articles posted there denounce illegal immigration and strongly advocate views of white supremacy, anti-Semitism, anti-Islamic sentiment, and anti-homosexuality and such feelings as White nationalism, White Pride and White separatism.

Stormfront appeals to many white people who feel they have been alienated from modern society. Stormfront caters to white people from all across the world, and has sections in various languages, especially Dutch. Posters from the United States are the largest contingent, but other English-speaking countries (the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia) are well-represented, as well as the Netherlands and Flanders. The rest of the posters are from other European countries and Latin America, with a few from South Africa.

There is also a small contigent of trolls who tend to work under under deep cover, trying to incite controversy. In early 2001 a massive flamewar broke out between members of Fuckedcompany and Stormfront, the conflict lead to the stormfront message board being taken offline for approximately two days for clean-up. This event caused the Stormfront moderators to take a hard line against trolling and miscellaneous disruption.

Extension of views

The creators of Stormfront.org also operate other websites on the Internet, including Martinlutherking.org which, describing itself as "The truth about Martin Luther King...a valuable resource for teachers and students alike", displays prominently on its main page a link to an article advocating the repeal of the US national Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday and a link to a discussion of Martin Luther King, Jr., hosted on the Stormfront forum. This has earned condemnation from many anti-racists.

Controversies

In August 2005, a candidate for city council of Charlotte, North Carolina dropped out of the race after it was revealed that he had posted on Stormfront. Republican Doug Hanks had posted more than 4,000 times over the previous three years using the name "Snarkie". In one comment he called African-Americans "rabid beasts". Hanks, a writer and actor from Connecticut, said that his postings were intended to gain the trust of Stormfront users in order to help him write a novel. "I did what I thought I needed to do to establish myself as a credible white nationalist."

See also

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  • Mootstormfront , anti-Stormfront site, "The interface between white supremacy and reality"

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