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mahatmakanejeeves

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Wed Nov 10, 2021, 12:00 PM Nov 2021

White supremacists find a new platform to spread hate: A federal courtroom in Charlottesville

You should be able to read the entire article, as I used the special gift link.

David Weigel Retweeted

The trial in Charlottesville sounds like an open spigot of hate. Defendants say the n-word, admire Hitler & traffic in racist pseudoscience.

“This is the Star Wars bar scene of extremism in that courtroom,” said
@orensegal
“and they know who’s watching.”

White supremacists find a new platform to spread hate: A federal courtroom in Charlottesville

In one chilling example, "Crying Nazi" Chris Cantwell badgered one plaintiff, a Black man, to name his friends in public proceedings that hundreds of people are listening to each day.

“I have to name them?”

“Yes, you have to,” the judge said.

Here's what happened next:



Local

White supremacists find a new platform to spread hate: A federal courtroom in Charlottesville

Defendants are using a trial about the 2017 Unite the Right rally as an opportunity to spew the hate they’ve been banned from some social media platforms for expressing

By Ellie Silverman
Today at 6:00 a.m. EST

CHARLOTTESVILLE — Devin Willis testified for hours about the racist vitriol he endured as a young Black man while a torch-carrying mob marched on his college campus four years ago, surrounding him and his friends, spraying chemical irritants and making “monkey noises.”

Now, one of those violent white supremacists, who is representing himself without an attorney in this trial, stood in front of Willis in a federal courtroom, badgering him to name his friends in public proceedings that hundreds of people are listening in on each day.

“I’m hesitant to name them,” Willis told Christopher Cantwell — a neo-Nazi defendant who is serving a prison sentence for extortion and threat charges from a separate case. “Some of them live here.”

Judge Norman K. Moon told Willis he had to answer the question.

Within minutes, the names of Willis’s friends, and photos of at least one of their faces, spread to far-right chatrooms where extremist supporters were following the trial. The chatroom was led by another defendant, who was also live-tweeting this information.

“Cantwell needs to keep drilling down for more names,” one user wrote in the chat the afternoon Willis testified.

The brazen display of doxing — or publicly uncovering personal information about a private individual — revealed the ways that white supremacists are weaponizing this federal civil trial about the deadly 2017 Unite the Right rally weekend into a spiteful stage.

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Pastor Daniel Xisto and his 2-year-old son, Max, in 2017 visit a memorial for Heather Heyer, who was killed in a car attack at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville. (Steve Helber/AP)

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By Ellie Silverman
Ellie Silverman covers protest movements, activism and local news. At The Post, she has also covered local crime and courts. She has previously reported on retail, breaking news and general assignment stories for the Philadelphia Inquirer, her hometown paper. She graduated from the University of Maryland, where she reported for the Diamondback. Twitter https://twitter.com/esilverman11
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White supremacists find a new platform to spread hate: A federal courtroom in Charlottesville (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Nov 2021 OP
Disgusting people... SergeStorms Nov 2021 #1
Yet another tranch of cuts... 2naSalit Nov 2021 #2
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