white nationalists use to justify any action, they use to justify any amount of violence. and the fact that i put things out that i could never take back is something that i m committed and i have been for the decade since i ve condemned white nationalism to advancing the cause against it. but no matter what i do, i can never take back any essay i wrote or any person who i persuaded to get involved in this movement. it s diffuse and i can t always trace it, but feeling that responsibility is something that i ve never been able to rationalise or move past. is it. is it a real transformation? because i think some people, especially if they know even from beyond this interview about your past, will really struggle to reconcile it with what you are saying now. how exactly did it come about? breivik was a searing moment. what about the people around you at college in florida? it was that community that
time on the website founded by your father had already committed murders. there was one in 2009 where three police officers were killed in pittsburgh by a man called richard poplawski. and then there was the absolutely searing moment in norway in 2011 when anders breivik, a man who had spent many hours on stormfront, killed 77 people, many of them. many of them children. many of them very young. do you remember that moment? do you remember hearing about it? you were still in the movement at the time. yeah. what happened ? violence from this movement was so common my entire life. it was something that.we rationalised, my family rationalised, because they explicitly banned violent rhetoric on stormfront, on my dad s website. people could be banned for that. and breivik wasn t banned because he never said anything explicitly violent. hejust said everything else about this ideology that
on the website founded by your father had already committed murders. there was one in 2009 where three police officers were killed in pittsburgh by a man called richard poplawski. and then there was the absolutely searing moment in norway in 2011, when anders breivik, a man who had spent many hours on stormfront, killed 77 people, many of them. many of them children. many of them very young. do you remember that moment? do you remember hearing about it? you were still in the movement at the time. yeah. what happened ? violence from this movement was so common my entire life. it was something that we rationalised, my family rationalised, because they explicitly banned violent rhetoric on stormfront, on my dad s website. people could be banned for that. and breivik wasn t banned because he never said anything explicitly violent. hejust said everything else about this ideology that i was growing up in, and that ideology named its enemies.
murders regularly and the fact that i was connecting them, connecting this campus to that world. publicly, yourfather, don black, has said about stormfront that the number of killings that are associated with his website is as high as it is, which is close to 100, because of breivik and him being responsible for murdering 77 people. he said, we ve had a few people who ve gone on shooting sprees. most were domestic issues that didn t have anything to do with politics . when you look back now, do you think that you, because you were a part of what stormfront was putting out, that you have a responsibility over what breivik did? i certainly feel an enormous amount of guilt for everything that i wrote as a teenager, and especially in later years, because i advanced ideas, concepts like white genocide, which is exactly what motivated breivik. this idea thatjust immigration and intermarriage is genocide to people is something that white
nationalists use to justify any action, they use to justify any amount of violence. and the fact that i put things out that i could never take back is something that i m committed and i have been for the decade since i ve condemned white nationalism to advancing the cause against it. but no matter what i do, i can never take back any essay i wrote or any person who i persuaded to get involved in this movement. it s diffuse and i can t always trace it, but feeling that responsibility is something that i ve never been able to rationalise or move past. is it a real transformation? because i think some people, especially if they know even from beyond this interview about your past, will really struggle to reconcile it with what you are saying now. how exactly did it come about? breivik was a searing moment. what about the people around you at college in florida? it was that community that