NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT ¨C In the wake of news reports that Dylann Roof, the suspect in last week¡¯s horrific massacre at Charleston¡¯s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, had become attracted to the ideology of white supremacy, I decided to make a visit, albeit a virtual one, to that world.
I came away shaken by the experience.
This is a preliminary analysis, based on visits to seven sites, a couple of them difficult to track down. I¡¯ll write later with more detail. For now, I want to record some general impressions. Note that there are no links, no site names and no direct quotes here. As regular readers know, I am pretty nearly a First Amendment absolutist, so I don¡¯t believe the supremacists¡¯ message should be squelched. That doesn¡¯t mean it¡¯s my job to make their message easy to find.
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