Nazi terrorism isn’t like it was a generation ago. It’s worse. Or at least more nihilistic.
There isn’t just one kind of Nazi. It’s a weirdly diverse ideology, at least on the surface. Sure, brutal white supremacism may serve as the uniting core element, but Nazism comes in all sorts of awful flavors, from Christian, to Hindu, and even Satanic forms of Nazism. Some sort of twisted theology is typically found at the heart of a Nazi’s ideology. And while Nazi terror from the 1970s, 80s, and 90s were typically carried out by Christian Identity terror groups likes the Aryan Nations, today’s Nazi terrorist is far more likely to follow one of many strains of “accelerationist” Nazism that have flourished in the online era. The teachings of James Mason — whose 1993 novel Siege celebrated mass murderers like the Manson family as models to be followed in implementing a chaos-fueled National Socialist revolution — really have won the hearts of minds of the next generation of white power extremists, leading to the proliferation of accelerationist groups like like Atomwaffen that aren’t just willing to deploy terrorism but actually prioritize violently collapsing society as the top priority. And then there’s movements like the Satanic Order of Nine Angle (O9A). While O9A itself might be decades old, it’s a lot more popular than it used to be these days. Nihilistic Satanic Nazism is shockingly popular these days. Or perhaps it’s not that shocking. But it happened.
Nazism in the online era really has gotten worse. Amazingly. And it didn’t just happen. Sure, the explosion of online culture played a critical role, but as we’re going to explore in this post, the popularization of accelerationist strains of Nazism didn’t just spontaneously happen. People have been working to make it happen. Somewhat surprising people in some cases, for years. (more...)
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