Are Fox News Commenters Worse Than Neo-Nazi White Supremacists?
Are the readers who comment on Fox News’ site worse — even greater racists — than the people who use the Neo-Nazi Internet forum Stormfront? Conservative blogger Charles Johnson, who founded and runs the famous site Little Green Footballs seems to think they’re “indistinguishable.”
Reading a story on Wycliff Jean’s Haiti charity published on Fox News today, Johnson noticed the comments on the story were fueled by racist slurs, including many instances of the “n” word.
“If I hadn’t seen this happen over and over and over at right wing websites, I might be shocked by the proud, open racism expressed by Fox News commenters in this article about Wyclef Jean’s Haitian charity fund,” Johnson writes.
The article, “Questions Raised Over Allotment of Wyclef Jean’s Haiti Fund,” currently has 1346 comments. Johnson pulled a few examples, including:
What’s the most confusing day of the year for a NlGGER?
Answer:
Father’s Day.(7 people liked this.)
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How do you hide something from a nig- Put it in a book.
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Next, time God, brings his wrath on Haiti; let them fend for them self!! No, Money!, and No Aid!! Better that Haiti sank into the sea and the population with it!!
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This NIGGERis anti-gay from what I hear. Maybe it’s time to LYNCHthisNIGGER.
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Nigs stealing from and exploiting their own people? I don’t believe it….that never happens. Oh wait….that’s what happened during the slave trade!
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Iza Koon 8 hours ago
Hey Mon——NIGGRA SCUM——-NUKE DEM !!!!!
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Never let these jigaboos claim they invented everything. They would take credit for the Airplane and Wheel too if they could.
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Johnson adds, “As I’ve noted before, Fox News commenters are indistinguishable from the commenters at neo-Nazi hate site Stormfront.”
Having never heard of Stormfront, I did some research.
Wikipedia notes,
Stormfront is a white nationalist and supremacist neo-Nazi Internet forum that has been described as the Internet’s first major hate site.
Stormfront began as an online bulletin board system in the early 1990s before being established as a website in 1995 by former Ku Klux Klan leader and white nationalist activist Don Black. It received national attention in the United States in 2000 after being featured as the subject of a documentary, Hate.com. Stormfront has been the subject of controversy after being removed from French and German Google indexes, for targeting an online FOX News poll on racial segregation, and for having political candidates as members. Its prominence has grown since the 1990s, attracting attention from watchdog organizations that oppose racism and antisemitism.
The website is structured as a theme-based discussion forum with numerous boards for topics including ideology, science, revisionism, homeschooling, and self defense. Stormfront also hosts news stories, a merchandise store, content aimed at children, and extensive links to racist organizations. The site has a logo featuring a Celtic cross common to neo-nazi iconography surrounded by the motto “White Pride World Wide”.
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I visited Stormfront, which, surprisingly, I did not have to register with to search and read.
Here are some of the comments in the thread based on the Wycliff Jean charity story:
“Haiti, Africa, Mexico, the Middle East and black America should have been flushed down the toilet a long time ago. When we stop allowing white liberalism and Jews to dictate our responses, it will happen.”
“blacks cheating blacks. proof human evolution considers blacks replaceable.”
“Did he think nobody would check? Oreilly has been doing checks on these kinds of things since 9/11. These crooks just can’t help themselves.”
“I remember this having come out very early on, and I remember watching his speech full of phony emotion as he denied the allegations. Just another self-serving negroid who doesn’t care about his home nation of which he’s supposedly so proud. What a joke. What’s more is that we shouldn’t even know or care about this, because Wyclef and all his racial brethren should not be in our lands, period.”
Both sets are disgusting and offensive. I leave the judgment of which are worse up to you.
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