Hate Groups Surge, Raking in Cash and New Recruits After Charleston Massacre
At its current pace, the hate forum Stormfront will have collected more than $20,000 in donations from its racist supporters in the eight week period following the Dylann Storm Roof massacre in Charleston, S.C. While the rest of America mourned the murders of nine members of an African American church, the mass killings generated a 100 percent spike in Web hits for Stormfront and record cash flow for the world’s largest and most lucrative hate site.
An odd and macabre kind of commerce took off after the violence in Charleston. Just days after the murders, confederate battle flag sales spiked on Amazon and elsewhere before retailers began removing them from the shelves.
Hate groups, however, appear to be the biggest and most shameless “beneficiaries” of the tragic, senseless killings by one of their own.
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