Welcome back to Jane Looking Forward. If you wish to continue reading this weekly newsletter, please subscribe here. And spread the word! Richard Fausset’s weekend story in The New York Times about a neo-Nazi’s “normal” life in the Ohio heartland drew a barrage of complaints for soft-pedaling his odious beliefs. The Forward writes about neo-Nazis,…
There were many white nationalist chants heard at the torch-lit Unite the Right rally in Virginia this summer. Some of them — like the Nazi-reference “blood and soil” or “Jews will not replace us” — clearly evoke racism or anti-Semitism. But one was much stranger: “White sharia now.” A new Southern Poverty Law Center post…
Richard Fausset’s weekend story in The New York Times about a neo-Nazi’s “normal” life in the Ohio heartland drew a barrage of complaints for soft-pedaling his odious beliefs. The Forward writes about neo-Nazis, too. So the critique echoed challenges that hit close to home. How do we cover a loose ideological movement that is tiny…
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The New York Times’s Saturday profile of white nationalist Tony Hovater garnered criticism for focusing on his video game habits and pasta recipe as well as his hatred of Jews. Some took issue with the idea of pointing out “normal” aspects of racist anti-Semites: Pssst, German Jews were also normal Germans before their fellow citizens…
Charles Manson, the cult leader who convinced his followers to murder nine people in 1969, died this week in prison. The shocking brutality of the Manson Family murders seemed to signal an end of an era, destroying the illusion of 1960s counter cultural idealism and highlighting its darker side. The murders have been a subject…
Before he became one of the country’s most prominent Internet neo-Nazis, Andrew Anglin was an anti-racist vegan whose favorite band was the indie group Modest Mouse. A lengthy profile in the Atlantic chronicles Anglin’s transformation from shy teen to racist troll. Anglin grew up in Worthington Hills, an upper-middle-class neighborhood in Columbus, Ohio. He collected…
In 1983, Kevin Wilshaw visited Dachau with three fellow neo-Nazis. He had traveled to Germany from England, his home country, and visited Hitler’s house and the Nuremberg Stadium in Munich with his German hosts. He asked them to take him to the nearby concentration camp. “They were very reluctant,” he said. They took him, and…
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