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Resources for hate stuff
If you're interested in understanding hate groups, speech and rhetoric,
Because of my background and languages, this is very centered on North American and European hate group types right now.
Also content warning! All of these are going to contain lots of unhappy things from the start!
Hate group watchdogs
Here's a bunch of places that specialise in tracking these subjects. They have varying levels of specialisation or regional focus.
Hope Not Hate
British hate group watchdog, and anti-racist political campaign group.
Hope Not Hate (US)
American branch of Hope Not Hate, focusing on the Alt-right.
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The International Alternative Right - A special mini-site dedicated to the alt-right and alt-light. Featuring an extensive undercover investigation of many of their IRL meetings annd movements, which is in the process of being compiled into a documentary right now.
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Control Alt-Right Delete - A weekly blog/newsletter dedicated to understanding how the alt-right works and developing strategies to fight back.
We Hunted The Mammoth
A blog tracking and exposing the commentary and ideological trends among the Male Supremacy/'Manosphere' movements, such as PUA, Red Pill, Incel, MGTOW and more.
Searchlight
A magazine investigating racism, fascism and antisemitism in Britain and elsewhere.
ShitRedditSays
A Reddit community dedicated to showcasing the worst (re: bigoted, creepy, sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic etc. etc. etc.) commentary across Reddit.
Contains more of a humorous tone compared to the other links, and the community is more of a venting place (not to say it diminishes it's quality, just that it's different in tone). An easy way to get an insight into the latest trends in typical anglophone internet hate speech discourse at a glance.
Right Wing Watch
Blog dedicated to tracking far-right movements, figures and rhetoric in the US.
The TERFs
A website that breaks down what TERFs are, what their beliefs are, and has a blog that tracks actions and rhetoric within this movement.
Useful articles
Contemporary White Supremacy
Alt-right and related movements.
- Alt-Right Article on RationalWiki.org - [note 1]
- Decrypting the Alt-Right: How to Recognize a F@scist by ContraPoints - A really great and entertaining video that goes into the generic ways that fascists behave online and how to identify them beyond moment-to-moment codewords and markers (which they always shift around).
- Charlottesville: The True Alt-Right by Shaun A video comparing what members of the alt-right said took place in Charlottesville compared to footage members of the alt-right took themselves on that day.
- What is Weaponised Activism? by Control Alt-Right Delete - This post quickly and effectively points out the differences between alt-right activism and healthy, reasonable activism, and why the former cannot adequately be protected as free speech. (I mean, this is separated from the bigoted rhetoric itself which is already a perfectly good reason.)
- Japan and the Alternative Right by Control Alt-Right Delete - Or as I like to call it, 'what's with all the anime stuff'?
- Alt-Right Glossary on RationalWiki.org - [note 1] A very comprehensive list of in-group terms and buzzwords.
- Nazi symbolism on Wikipedia - A good primer on nazi symbols, and a lot of these can be seen quite frequently on white nationalists on the internet and IRL (many of these featured quite heavily in the Charlottessville rally of 2017).
Male Supremacy / Manosphere
MRA, PUA, The Red Pill, Incel, MGTOW, etc. Also has plenty of overlap with many contemporary white supremacist groups.
- Hope Not Hate Explains... The Manosphere
- Manosphere article on RationalWiki.org - [note 1]
- Manosphere Glossary on RationalWiki.org - [note 1] Probably the most comprehensive glossary of Manosphere in-group terms that exists right now.
Neo-reactionary
- Mouthbreathing Machiavellis Dream of a Silicon Reich - A piece summarising the ideological problems, as well as the potential dangers of the neo-reactionary movement.
GamerGate
- Gamergate's vicious right-wing swell means there can be no neutral stance - The Guardian
- GamerGate on RationalWiki.org - [note 1]
Notes
- I'm painfully aware of the baggage the use of the word 'rational' has and RationalWiki is definitely not perfect. However, it is pretty great at summarising and collecting information about hate groups in ways that I have not seen anywhere else.
- Alt-Rightists and Neo-nazis are often essentially the same, but not necessarily (especially in the case of the alt-light), so they are separated when it comes to categorised lists.