Thursday, June 03, 2004

White Trash by Metzger....a tv repairman

In Zickman’s article the author utilizes the dialogues of many sites to provide inquiry into “cyberhate.” The targeted audience is anyone who uses the internet, and anyone who does regular research on the net. The author illustrates the deep emotion backing these white supremacist sites through conversations between the antagonist and the protagonist. Although much of the article depicts racist arguments the main idea is the availability of negative information on the web.
The abundance of negative information is evident on the web, as we have already discovered in our previous article of "Dropping the Bomb on Google." In that article we found that searching a word can result in an unwanted search result website. In an attempt to recreate that case study I searched the word "Aryan," using Google. My findings revealed a site called W.A.R, which was the first page to pop-up. This website was an anti-Semitic site that was discussed in Zickman's article. The site is called the White Aryan Resistance, or W.A.R. On the front page of the site, who else than its founder the great Tom Metzger….a television repairman. As I thumbed through the site links such as "views" were available, which clearly stated every view they had on every subject including: politics, women, blacks, Jews, gays, the government and other such topics. The site discussed up and coming events like supremacist talk shows and listed the time and dates. At the very end of the site, it included jokes of every "other" race. Many of the jokes focused on making the "other" seem sub-human; the punch lines were that of comparing African Americans to apes and Mexicans to cockroaches. This I believe was a weak attempt to subconsciously insinuate that anyone who was not white was not human.
Something I noticed in all of the conversations written, when supremacist compared why they were better that any other nationality it was because of their skin. If anyone rebutted than it was because of a religious point of view or some articulated answer, which gave me the impression that the person was somewhat educated.
The internet is an abundant source of information, but when should a line be drawn? If websites keep becoming more explicit then eventually the government will have to step in and develop some kind of censorship. Another concern regards to our previous article about Google. How come these sites keep appearing first on the page?

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