It's too bad that Molly Crabapple's "hero portrait" of Weev didn't include his giant swastika tattoo. Rights groups and other observers believe that the site's traffic has taken a significant hit by being dropped, which would at least partly explain Auernheimer's frustration. It's unclear how much traffic the neo-Nazi hub has lost since being dropped from its original URL, partly because it keeps moving from place to place. It has lost over a dozen domains following Charlottesville, but Auernheimer and Anglin have benefitted financially from peddling hate speech to the tune of thousands of dollars per month, which comes from anonymous online donations. The audio was published on both Cantwell's website and the Daily Stormer, which primarily posts Jewish conspiracy theories and memes celebrating physical violence against Jews, women and people of color. There is only one thing absent free speech that we can do to express our dissent and that's to slaughter you like dogs, and you're gonna have it coming and your children will deserve to die." "If you don't let us dissent peacefully, then our only option is to murder you. "Someone has to step in," Auernheimer, 32, said on the podcast Radical Agenda, hosted by Christopher Cantwell, one of the white nationalists who attended the deadly Charlottesville rally. Subsequently, the site has been forced to jump around the internet. These days it is often difficult to deduce who was a big partier when they were young and who wasn’t.A reclusive neo-Nazi who co-runs the white supremacist Daily Stormer website, and recently said Jewish children "deserve to die," has Jewish relatives on "both sides of his family," his mother told Newsweek.Īndrew "Weev" Auernheimer, who handles the technical side of Stormer alongside editor Andrew Anglin, said on a podcast last month that Jews were to blame for the website's loss of its dot com address after a white man allegedly killed peaceful protester Heather Heyer in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August. Yes, plenty of people lost control and became addicted, some even died due to drug problems, but I must note that most of these people did retire from the scene relatively unscathed. In fact, most users in this scene were from middle class families, college educated, and had jobs and sometimes families of their own. When I entered the NYC after-hours nightclub scene in the late 1990s, I encountered thousands of people on drugs every weekend and I was confused that these weekly ecstasy users generally did not meet the description of the 'druggies' I had learned about in school or on television. I became fascinated with the topic because I used to stigmatise drug use myself. I’ve been investigating the stigma associated with drug use for some time. Indeed, drug use and addiction are huge public health problems, but we need to keep in mind that the majority who have used have not necessarily experienced adverse outcomes such as addiction so they are not always visible. Most of us learn this from the media and from television, and unsurprisingly, polls have found that most people who feel drug use is a major crisis have not witnessed drug problems first-hand. We also tend to think meth users have no teeth, all cocaine users are addicts and heroin users are criminals.
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