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Saturday, September 10, 2016

WARNING - DON'T READ THIS.

Or if you do, shower afterward.

Click here (only if you have a strong stomach) for an article at Crooks & Liars by Robyn Pennacchia, posted with permission from Wonkette, entitled "Stormfront Neo-Nazis Want Your Kids To Catch Pokemons, Jews."

A little background. Stormfront is a Neo-Nazi site; Wikipedia describes it as "the Web's first major racial hate site," and says that it "began in 1990 as an online bulletin board for white nationalist David Duke's campaign for United States Senator of Louisiana." (Click here for the Stormfront Wikipedia entry.) Some organization called "The Year in Hate and Extremism, 2015," said:
The total of registered users is just shy of 300,000, a fairly astounding number for a site run by an ex-felon and former Alabama Klan leader. And that doesn't include thousands of visitors who never register as users. At press time, Stormfront ranked as the Internet's 13,648th most popular site, while the NAACP site, by comparison, ranked 32,640th.
Stormfront, unfortunately, is a real thing, to be taken seriously.

From the Wonkette article:
Ever since Donald Trump first announced his intention to run for president of the United States, neo-Nazi sites like Stormfront have seen a massive surge in traffic from people beginning to discover just how much they have in common with white supremacists. In fact, they've even had to change servers in order to accommodate all the new recruits!

Clearly feeling the adrenaline rush from realizing how much they have to offer an unfortunately large segment of the population, Stormfront has set its sights on drawing even more people into their web of hate. Well, not people so much as children! Yes, they have decided that it is time for your American children to join the Hitler Youth.

This past Tuesday, Stormfront writer Andrew Anglin was thrilled to announce that "[a]n enterprising Stormer has been handing out fliers at Pokémon GO gyms for the purpose of converting children and teens to HARDCORE NEO-NAZISM!"

No, really! That is their plan. They are all going to go to whatever the hell Pokémon gyms are and distribute flyers to children about how they need to convince their parents to vote for Donald Trump so that "hooknosed Jews" and black people don't ruin their lives and kill their mothers. Fun!
Readers are urged to wear their MAGA (Make America Great Again) hats while distributing the flyers.

The Stormfront article references, in turn, an article at Daily Stormer; click here for its Wikipedia entry, which starts off:
The Daily Stormer is an American neo-Nazi and white supremacist news and commentary website.[1][2] Its editor is Andrew Anglin, who founded it on July 4, 2013, as a faster-paced replacement for his previous website Total Fascism, which he launched the year before.

The site has been noted for its use of humor and Internet memes, which have been likened to the imageboard 4chan and cited as attractions for a younger and more ideologically diverse audience.[3] The website supports Russia and endorses Donald Trump for president. Guest writers have included black hat hacker weev and 8chan founder Fredrick Brennan. While some white nationalist authors have praised The Daily Stormer's reach, others have taken issue with its content and tone.
The Daily Stormer proclaims itself "The World's Leading Alt-Right Web Site; click here for the article in question. I won't repeat the reprehensible material in the article, entitled "Pokemon GO Nazi Challenge"; read the Crooks & Liars/Wonkette article for yourself (or not; you might be happier if you don't).

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