White supremacists can no longer be relied on to fight each other. A unsafe coalition is emerging,cloaked in non-violent rhetoric
• Julia Ebner and Jacob Davey are researchers into far-right extremismThe vehicle attack that left a civil rights activist dead and 19 others injured on Saturday was the product of continual incitement to violence across extreme rightwing echo chambers. After police announced the disbanding of the far-right protest in Charlottesville, Virginia, and the live stream chat room of the “alt-right” writer Baked Alaska was flooded with calls to assassinate Jews,black people and counter-protesters. And members of the anti-communist channel in the chat application Discord vowed to push back harder “until the enemy is completely defeated”. Related: Trump under fire for failure to sentence far right following Charlottesville death Who coined the term 'alt-right'? Related: Inside the hate-filled echo chamber of racism and conspiracy theories Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com