A fascist with a particular acquired taste, Stephen Yaxley-Lennon AKA Tommy Robinson once believed he enjoyed widespread appeal to everybody on the far right, focusing his hatred one-dimensionally upon Muslims and Islam, however since his switch from the BNP to become co-founder and leader of the EDL, not all British fascists have supported him. The […]
As social media giants become more aware of how their platforms are used to promote hatred, racism and conspiracy theories and they take steps to help identify and prevent abuse, it has become increasingly more difficult for out and out bigots to maintain a presence on mainstream channels. Resisting Hate have looked in depth at […]
It has become a wide spread reaction to label anti hate activists and those who stand against prejudice as ‘politically correct’. Given the examples of racism paraded with sensationalist headline grabbing horror by the press this is perhaps not surprising. Only a few weeks ago we watched mainstream media tie itself up in knots wondering […]
At Resisting Hate we have deplatformed literally thousands of racists and haters over the years. However there is the occasional account that takes longer to get down than others and which, despite regular breaches of the ToS, seem immune to being reported. DeVries is one of those accounts. He was on our agenda a few […]
Surprisingly for someone who in adulthood has increasingly left wing political views, my background was actually fairly centrist. I was raised in a family where one parent was affluent middle class and the other was poor working class. They were united in a shared appreciation for Margaret Thatcher. My parents genuinely seemed to fear a […]
There have been three incidents recently that got me digging deeper into the etymology of some of the common words we use without considering the meaning. The first was in a tweet on Twitter where I used the term “fuzzy wuzzy” to describe somebody’s feelings. I was thinking cute fluffy bears. It turns out that […]
Do you think racism is more of a problem today than it was in the 1980s? I think the racism we are seeing today is very different to the racism of the 1980s. Being labelled a racist has a lot more stigma attached to it than it did 30 years ago and that has made […]
Laura Towler, a pseudonym for Laura Tyrie, is a 33 year old white nationalist (White Supremacist), anti-Semitic and great replacement conspiracy theorist, active on YouTube, BitChute and Twitter. Laura, as Deputy Leader, along with Mark Collett, neo-Nazi and former head of publicity for the BNP, leads Patriotic Alternative, a far-right white nationalist Neo Nazi group […]
First, read: “The Case For Deplatforming: National Socialist Black Metal (NSBM)”. It is easy to deplatform neo-Nazi NSBM (‘National Socialist Black Metal’) bands from the many online platforms with ‘Terms and Conditions’ or ‘Acceptable Use Policies’ which prohibit calls to violence, dehumanising language around race or religion, and hate speech in general. The platforms just need […]
This is a guest article by an individual called Edward who has left the far right movement and who approached Resisting Hate asking if we could help him reach other people so he could educate them on how to leave the movement once fallen victim to the hate rhetoric. We were only too glad to […]
I’ve published quite a lot about how Resisting Hate evolved from an online opposition group to an anti hate organisation but what I haven’t touched on much is my own origins as an anti hate activist and how I came to be the public founder of what has become one of the most contentious anti […]
As the leaves on our pre autumnal leaves start to change colour and fall, the chaos that is 2020 remains very far from receding. A look at recent trends show that the infection rate is once again beginning to rise and the Academy of Medical Sciences is predicting a winter with up to 120,000 Covid […]