Neo-Nazi website raises $150,000 to fight Southern Poverty Law Center lawsuit

[Judi Lynn]

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]

1. They always cry "free speech" when they get sued for harassment

[Laffy Kat]

2. Has a hate group ever won against SPLC?

If so, I don't remember it.

[Rainbow Droid]

3. Here's the historical Nazi "newspaper" the name references, if you don't already know.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_St%C3%BCrmer

One of the worst of the worst, Streicher.

[EL34x4]

4. Nice of the LA Times to publicize DS's plight.

I expect donations (and visits to Anglin's website) will increase exponentially.

[Greensix1]

5. They won't come through

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.

[kaotikross]

6. exactly

once they find out you can't pay with used truck parts or chicken gizzards, that'll be that.

[Maeve]

7. Whelp...time to send another check to SPLC eom