{"id":126537,"date":"2019-03-17T12:21:21","date_gmt":"2019-03-17T20:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=126537"},"modified":"2019-03-17T12:21:21","modified_gmt":"2019-03-17T20:21:21","slug":"lat-white-supremacism-in-australia-long-a-virulent-strain-is-amplified-by-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=126537","title":{"rendered":"LAT: White supremacism in Australia, long a virulent strain, is amplified by the Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Robyn Dixon writes<\/a>: Australian far-right extremists often call themselves NEET \u2014 not in employment, education or training \u2014 and condemn \u201cruthless elites\u201d and intellectuals. Many of them blame Jews for non-white immigration.<\/p>\n

One Melbourne-based group known as the Dingoes runs a regular two-hour podcast, \u201cThe Convict Report.\u201d Their obsessions are the predictable stuff of white supremacism: discussion of \u201cbreeding\u201d of whites versus other races; the WP (or women problem) with females generally despised but required for \u201cbreeding;\u201d a hatred of Lefties (left wing liberals) and immigration and a disgust of vegans and soy eaters.<\/p>\n

A related Melbourne group has aired white supremacist programming called \u201cThe Absolute State\u201d from \u201cMelbadishu\u201d (a reference to Somali migrants), \u201cchurning out wrongthink,\u201d advocating eugenics and restricted voting rights.<\/p>\n

A few weeks ago, \u201cThe Convict Report\u201d welcomed a New Zealander named Johan Wolfe, author of a blog called the Dominion Movement, for a rambling conversation punctuated with guffaws and camaraderie that seemed designed to suggest the banter of ordinary blokes propped up at a pub. The atmosphere was not fury but humorous contempt and despair about the common \u201cproblems\u201d faced in Australia and New Zealand.<\/p>\n

The anonymous hosts who call themselves Tory, Digger and Herschel expressed admiration for Wolfe\u2019s website and its message: \u201cWhite New Zealanders are standing up.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Friday, the Dominion Report distanced itself from Tarrant, claiming its ideas were peaceful, and announced the site would be closed down. But articles by Wolfe and others remain online.<\/p>\n

Although Australia\u2019s white supremacists share many ideas with U.S. far-right extremists, they often espouse casual anti-American sentiment. Americans are called \u201cseppos,\u201d which derives from a shortened form of the slang term \u201cseptic tank,\u201d rhyming with \u201cYank.\u201d<\/p>\n

In \u201cStraya,\u201d they say in their slang, true blue cobbers all speak the lingo. Straya refers to Australia. A cobber is a loyal friend. True blue means genuine. Lingo is language.<\/p>\n

The person identifying himself as Tarrant used the word \u201ccobbers\u201d in a final posting on the unregulated far-right message board 8chan just before Friday\u2019s attack. \u201cYou are all top blokes and the best bunch of cobbers a man could ask for,\u201d apparently referring to the virulent online community of Australian extremists from whom he found affirmation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Robyn Dixon writes: Australian far-right extremists often call themselves NEET \u2014 not in employment, education or training \u2014 and condemn \u201cruthless elites\u201d and intellectuals. Many of them blame Jews for non-white immigration. One Melbourne-based group known as the Dingoes runs … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[182,29615],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-nationalism"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126538,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126537\/revisions\/126538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}