The idea of suing a website might seem abhorrent to advocates of free speech on the internet, but maybe one case shows that it can be justified?
Whitefish Woman's Lawsuit Over 'Daily Stormer' Harassment Proceeding
The Missoulian is reporting [archive] that a Whitefish woman's lawsuit against a Nazi website is going forward.
Montana Public Radio reports that Andrew Anglin, publisher of The Daily Stormer, is being sued by an individual the website targeted because of the mother of Richard Spencer:
The Daily Stormer called for readers to harass her and her family over her dealings with the mother of white nationalist Richard Spencer.
Image of part of the complaint (PDF).
Northwestern Montana, however, has had some experience in dealing with neo-Nazis in the neighborhood.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Phoenix666 on Friday December 08 2017, @02:59PM (6 children)
A surreal aspect of this story is that neither Jews nor Nazis are numerous in that area. There are maybe 10 Jews in the state of Montana, and possibly twice that number of Nazis (most of whom bled over the border from the panhandle of Idaho, or re-settled from somewhere else in the country). As such the rest of the world will get the mistaken impression that this phenomenon is indicative of the people who live there. It's not. It's more like news that a unicorn crossed horns with a hippogriff, with the locals shrugging and saying they had no idea either unicorns or hippogriffs were in the area.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 3, Informative) by nitehawk214 on Friday December 08 2017, @03:29PM (2 children)
Minorities being rare in an area makes them an easy target for the hate groups.
As far as Nazis not being numerous. I don't think they are numerous anywhere in the USA. But they are loud as fuck which gives people the impression that the country is only a couple steps away from 1938.
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh
(Score: 1, Troll) by Scrutinizer on Friday December 08 2017, @04:03PM
Who's holding the megaphone? Gee, it's almost as if the mainstream media's owners want the general public to think there's a big resurgence of Nazmunists (read: violent authoritarians) in the USA... Divide-and-conquer, still relevant more than 2,000 years later.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday December 08 2017, @05:17PM
I think there has to be some number larger than a couple of guys before a minority can be a viable target for real hate speech. Else, they're a novelty, not a threat. Where i grew up there was one Vietnamese family and their son was elected president of the student body. There was also one kid who was a white supremacist who memorably got up to denounce the corrosive influence of blacks and jews and all of us white kids who constituted 100% of the class looked around at each other and said "what black kids? What jews?"
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 08 2017, @09:09PM (2 children)
Try 1,450 [jewishvirtuallibrary.org]. All the Nazis, however, are out-of-staters, Californicators, most likely.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Saturday December 09 2017, @02:56AM (1 child)
So, 0.1% of the population of montana. I stand by "not numerous." I'd also opine the dramatic growth from 10 is mostly Californicators, too.
The 2010 census lists 4K black people, and 65K native americans. So, yeah, jews are unicorns (or hippogriffs, if you prefer) relative to the incidence of other groups in the state.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 10 2017, @10:22AM
Out-of-stater, eh? You do know that the unofficial motto of Montana is "Gut shoot 'em at the border", and they are not talking about the Mexican border. But then, you have made it obvious you do not live in Big Sky Country.