If you're not a white supremacist neo-Nazi nutcase, you may not be familiar with a website that serves as a vast repository of online hate, paranoia, racism, anti-Semitism, Hitler-worship, crackpot conspiracy theories and so much more.
To stumble upon it by accident is to get a shocking glimpse into the minds of large numbers of very strange, poisonous people.
This can happen. If these guys have been discussing - in their fucked up terms - a topic of interest to you, a simple Google search can lead you to the forums of Stormfront, which since 1995 has been the most popular spot online for nutcases to share their bile and fear. There is so much content there that it's no wonder it can show up pretty prominently in some searches.
This can happen. If these guys have been discussing - in their fucked up terms - a topic of interest to you, a simple Google search can lead you to the forums of Stormfront, which since 1995 has been the most popular spot online for nutcases to share their bile and fear. There is so much content there that it's no wonder it can show up pretty prominently in some searches.
It's a particularly strange and unpleasant experience to have this happen when your search terms are about a fun and completely innocuous topic.
Regular readers will know that the fun and completely innocuous topic that has most piqued my interest in recent days is the music of Norwegian parody popster Tonje Langeteig. Having had the great thrill of a brief online chat with Tonje last night (yes, really), it's perhaps not surprising that I decided to have a little look online for fresh news of the platinum blonde chanteuse this evening.
What was surprising (horribly surprising) for me was having a search for news of Tonje lead me to a typically deranged exchange between the deluded whackos of Stormfront.
Tonje fans will be pleased to know that this particular discussion did not descend to the lowest levels of hateful vitriol for which the Stormfront forums are known. More hostile words are actually directed towards a Swedish singer, Lilla Lovis.
But it was still a shock to see these cretins taking time out of their usual discussions of a Zionist world conspiracy or whatever and turning their loathsome attention to poor Tonje, described by one moron as "a terrible example of a white woman."
Somewhere, it seems, there just has to be a fucking lunatic discussing in the most deranged terms even the most unlikely subject you can think of. It's that kind of world.
What was surprising (horribly surprising) for me was having a search for news of Tonje lead me to a typically deranged exchange between the deluded whackos of Stormfront.
Tonje fans will be pleased to know that this particular discussion did not descend to the lowest levels of hateful vitriol for which the Stormfront forums are known. More hostile words are actually directed towards a Swedish singer, Lilla Lovis.
But it was still a shock to see these cretins taking time out of their usual discussions of a Zionist world conspiracy or whatever and turning their loathsome attention to poor Tonje, described by one moron as "a terrible example of a white woman."
Somewhere, it seems, there just has to be a fucking lunatic discussing in the most deranged terms even the most unlikely subject you can think of. It's that kind of world.
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