Yep, Andrew Anglin's path "fit a pattern that scholars have identified, in that he seems to have been driven, at least initially, more by a desire for status and belonging than by deeply held beliefs. Anglin wanted to be somebody, and the internet gave him a way". .. your link .. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/12/the-making-of-an-american-nazi/544119/
"The Making of an American Nazi"
Which isn't to say that Anglin's deeply held beliefs didn't guide him on his path. A liberal might have a need for status and belonging, yet wouldn't have become a bigoted bully as Anglin has become.
This, from your article, is interesting in light of the Russian election meddling controversy.
"Anglin has long kept his own location secret. For years he floated around Europe, and one family member told me that around 2015 he was holed up in Russia, his last known foreign address. Another source showed me Facebook messages from Anglin’s childhood best friend that indicated Anglin was still living there last year. But he maintained a footprint in Columbus through his father, who has said he was “not really involved with Andy’s site.” In fact, Greg was involved. He’d registered The Daily Stormer’s trade name and filed paperwork for his son’s limited-liability corporation, Moonbase Holdings—a likely reference to a conspiracy theory that Hitler survived World War II by escaping to a secret lunar base." https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/12/the-making-of-an-american-nazi/544119/
Russia likely would be actively promoting people like Anglin to promote hate, division and discord in Western democratic societies. Anyway
This lawsuit could shut internet Nazis down
The victim of a troll attack takes on the neo-Nazi who runs "the top hate site in America." The result might prompt trolls to think twice before they post.
by Erin Carson July 11, 2017 11:12 AM PDT
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Now Gersh is taking on the man who started it all. In a federal lawsuit filed in April, Gersh accuses Andrew Anglin, who publishes the neo-Nazi Daily Stormer website, of invading her privacy, intentionally inflicting emotional distress and violating Montana's Anti-Intimidation Act by organizing more than 700 instances of harassment since December 2016. The Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil rights group, is representing Gersh. .. https://www.cnet.com/news/taking-trolls-to-court-lawsuit-targets-the-daily-stormer/
Trump’s retweets elevate a tiny fringe group of anti-Muslim activists in Britain
"The Making of an American Nazi"
Jayda Fransen, the deputy leader of the far-right group Britain First, marches in London on April 1. On Wednesday, President Trump retweeted three anti-Muslim videos posted by Fransen. (Daniel Leal-Olivas/AFP/Getty Images)
By William Booth and Karla Adam November 29 at 5:22 PM
LONDON — In sharp personal rebuke, the British government told President Trump he was “wrong” to retweet on Wednesday a series of anti-Muslim video clips promoted by the leader of an ultranationalsist fringe group in the U.K. that the prime minister’s office said “peddles lies” and “hateful narratives.”
Trump had alerted his millions of followers to three video posts by Britain First, a small group of far-right nationalists, whose supporters march in front of mosques with crosses and whose leaders decry what they describe as a takeover of British Christian society by “foreign infidels” who want to enforce Sharia law.
The three videos promoted by Trump provide no context beyond the titles provided by Britian First. In one, the group says a “Muslim migrant” attacks a Dutch boy. The Netherlands Embassy tweeted at Trump: “Facts do matter. The perpetrator of the violent act in this video was born and raised in the Netherlands. He received and completed his sentence under Dutch law.” The embassy does not reveal his religion but confirms he is not a migrant.
White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders defended Trump’s post as evidence he wants to “promote strong borders and strong national security.”
“Whether it’s a real video, the threat is real, and that is what the president is talking about,” Sanders told reporters.
[...]
Some said Trump was trying to legitimize the far right in Britain, while others were so flabbergasted that they wondered whether he was perhaps either naive or ignorant.
“Britain First is an appalling organization,” Martin Callanan, a Conservative Party politician and a government minister, told the BBC.
Referring to Trump, Callanan said: “I can only assume he has made a mistake and that he didn’t realize who Britain First were.”
[...]
Even Paul Joseph Watson of the far-right, conspiracy-minded Infowars tweeted that giving Britain First a megaphone is not a good look for Trump.
“Yeah, someone might want to tell whoever is running Trump’s Twitter account this morning that retweeting Britain First is not great optics,” Watson wrote.
Nick Ryan, a spokesman for Hope Not Hate, an anti-extremist research organization, said it was astonishing that the U.S. president would knowingly retweet the group’s posts.
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