Neo-Nazi website raises $150,000 to fight Southern Poverty Law Center lawsuit
Source: Los Angeles Times
Neo-Nazi website raises $150,000 to fight Southern Poverty Law Center lawsuit
JUNE 6, 2017 7:05 PM
A neo-Nazi blogger has been promised donations of more than $150,000 for his legal defense after the Southern Poverty Law Center sued him for organizing a troll storm against a Jewish woman in Montana.
The donations to Andrew Anglin and the website he founded, the Daily Stormer, came in over the course of less than two months on a crowdfunding site that caters to far-right causes, overcoming the difficulties that white nationalists often face in raising money online.
The mainstream crowdfunding websites GoFundMe and Kickstarter have policies forbidding fundraisers that promote hate speech.
The donations to support Anglin were made possible by a California-based site called WeSearchr, which has attracted donors hoping to fund rallies for the far-right and post bounties for damaging information about liberals, leftists and moderate Republicans such as Sen. John McCain of Arizona.
Read more: http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-daily-stormer-20170602-story.html
dalton99a
(81,568 posts)Laffy Kat
(16,386 posts)If so, I don't remember it.
Rainbow Droid
(722 posts)EL34x4
(2,003 posts)I expect donations (and visits to Anglin's website) will increase exponentially.
Greensix1
(67 posts)My bet is the money won't all come through. I seriously doubt if the majority of these losers have enough money to back up their hatred with actual donations. It's easy to say you are going to give, but another matter to sent the money.
once they find out you can't pay with used truck parts or chicken gizzards, that'll be that.