“This ruling should send a strong message to other white supremacists that they can and will be held accountable for hateful activity that constitutes unlawful discrimination, no matter whether it occurs online or in the real world.” The Court’s ruling recognizes the real-world damage done when bigots take to the internet to target and threaten African Americans and other people of color,” said Kristen Clarke, President and Executive Director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. “This ruling is historic in that it marks the first time that a court has deemed racist online trolling activity that can interfere with one’s equal access to a public accommodation.
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The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and pro bono counsel Kirkland & Ellis LLP, along with the Washington Lawyers’ Committee, filed the lawsuit on behalf of the Plaintiff. Dumpson’s ability to fully enjoy places of public accommodation and interfered with her equal opportunity to education. In addition to other allegations, the suit alleged that Defendants interfered with the Ms.
Defendant Andrew Anglin, an avowed neo-Nazi and publisher of the neo-Nazi website The Daily Stormer, then directed his white supremacist followers to threaten and harass her on social media to amplify the harm of the hate crime. Others read “Harambe bait,” referencing a gorilla killed at the Cincinnati Zoo as a racist and threatening comparison to African Americans. Some bananas had “AKA” written on them – referencing Plaintiff’s historically black sorority. A masked person hung nooses around campus with bananas tied to them. The day after she was inaugurated, a hate crime targeted her on the basis of her race and gender. In 2017, Taylor Dumpson was elected as American University’s first female African American student body president. WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today the United States District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that white supremacists who used social media to threaten and harass the first African American female student body president of American University were liable for over $700,000 in damages and attorneys’ fees. The 2017 Unite the Right event was followed by various internet providers and services shutting down The Daily Stormer.In landmark decision, court rules that hateful online trolling can constitute interference with the equal enjoyment of public accommodations Īlso in 2017, the SPLC was involved in a lawsuit against Anglin, described very differently by Anglin than in the politically correct mass media. “But I agree with all the core principles of National Socialism.”" This should not be interpreted as support for " Nazism" as depicted in politically correct historiography since the site supports various forms of National Socialist Germany revisionism, such as Holocaust revisionism. In an interview he has stated that “ The term ‘ neo-Nazi’ is clearly a slur, and I’m not certain I want to repeat everything like it was in Hitler’s Germany,” he says. Some of it is even meta-level, as we mock both SJW beliefs and mockingly embrace their stereotypes of White racism is an often self-depreciating manner." He has also stated that " As the readers is hopefully aware, much of the writing on this site is satirical. Shocking, offensive and hilarious propaganda.In addition to text material, there have also been other media material by Anglin and others.Īnglin has stated that " My technique includes the following elements: It was started in July 2013 by Andrew Anglin. The Daily Stormer is a White nationalist news and commentary website based in the United States.
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