Monday, September 28, 2015

White supremacy messages in the digital media and physical.

Ever since when the Nazi's in Germany used Anti-Semitic media propaganda, to persuade the people to hate the Jewish people before and during World War II. White supremacist and Neo-Nazi media messages are still being circulated today. Neo-Nazi groups are groups of people or individuals who follows the ideology of the National Socialist Movement in Germany. One example of a Neo-Nazi group in the U.S. is the American Nazi Party. White supremacists are people who believe that the white race is superior compared to other races. Both of these political ideologies are radical right wing. White Supremacists believe that the white race is declining because they see the population of minority groups is a threat to their race. They also believe that Israel controls America. One notable book that promote these ideas is called The Turner Diaries, by William Luther Pierce or also known as Andrew Macdonald, as listed on the book cover. The book was published in the 70s. Although most countries in Europe such as Germany, France, and Austria had outlawed pro Nazi speech, White Supremacist speech is still legal in the United States. This is due to the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution allows hate speech. Although there are no Neo-Nazi propaganda based Television channels in the U.S., even if there was a launch of Neo-Nazi television. It would have been a PR disaster for the station. However there are many White Supremacist websites. One well-known example of a White Supremacy site is Stormfront. This site is an Internet discussion forum site that discusses White supremacist topics such as Anti-Semitic and racist viewpoints. Here is a screen cap of the site that I took.















The slogan of the site claims that they are "promoting" their heritage because they believe that they are preserving their race. However Caucasian people in this country is still the majority race and the race is not in any danger in my opinion. Not only that there are white supremacist propaganda exists on the internet, there are a few Neo-Nazi themed video games. One example of a Neo Nazi first person shooter game, Ethnic Cleansing. Ethnic Cleansing. The player only has one weapon and there are 2 stages in the game. The enemies of the game are Black, Mexican, and Jewish people. When I looked up video gameplay of the game on YouTube, I thought that the game is awful because the graphics and animations are bad, and the gameplay is glitchy.

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