(Apparently, Time magazine once described Kelso as a "near-genius". Then last year Time named Powerline "Blog of the Year".... really far-sighted journalism, Time, way to go!)
Anyway, the article focuses on the surprising and rapid growth of Stormfront under Kelso's internet leadership, and the "soft", friendly tactics that are used to increase and sustain membership. Today's racists are more savvy about tapping into the mainstream. For example, the Stormforont community prefers the term "pro-white" to some of the uglier alternatives. Kelso also successfully drafted other racist luminaries to "guest post" at the site:
When Jamie Kelso joined Stormfront about three years ago, he successfully began pushing for leading movement writers -- men like Sam Dickson, a leader of the white supremacist Council of Conservative Citizens, and Willis Carto, publisher of the Holocaust-denying journal The Barnes Review -- to start posting.
Along these lines, Stormfront recently had a huge, open strategy session on how best to infiltrate The Free Republic. Over a week ago, Shannon noted a quote from this Stormfront thread which asked:
How do we penetrate Free Republic?
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That forum is just too damned popular and packed full of our target audience to ignore.
Yikes! Someone better warn the Freeps, before they're inundated by members with racially -insensitive viewpoints. It'd be a shame if such a prestigious forum were degraded by reckless outsiders....
The article goes on to say:
But one thing you won't normally find on Stormfront are racial slurs. In fact, new members are explicitly warned not to use such language, and also not to post violent threats or anything describing illegal activity. Black clearly has modeled his site on some of the tactics used by Duke, who famously urged his Klan followers to "get out of the cow pasture and into hotel meeting rooms."
Be that as it may, Stormfront welcomes African-American readers with a thread titled "For Black Visitors", which begins:
What are you doing here?
Do you realize that by being here... you are just being another "dumb nigger" for your masters?
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[Snipping of several long, tortured pseudo-historical parsnips]
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That's right, the people you hate are not the haters, they are not your enemies.
Your enemies are the jews who use you as their 'dumb niggers' to do their dirty work.
I want to echo the DK's, and say, "Nazi Punks F*ck Off!" but I'm not sure that would be useful. What's the best antidote to poisonous tribal "wisdom"? How can one engage and defuse a growing menace like this-- in our own backyards, no less?
Could be a job for Superman!
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(H/T Shannon)
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* title is a lyric from the Dead Horse song "Mindless Zombies"
