Not to mention that message boards aren't how people are connecting and communicating in great numbers these days. Where the numbers are is in social media, and those platforms operate differently. Twitter has private rooms where they can congregate, and a look at the Twitter hashtag UniteTheRight or AltRight is more than enlightening. So while a certain website will get traffic (although I've seen one domain is being yanked after they called the young woman killed in Charlottesville a string of pejoratives), organization is being done in large part through much faster-acting venues than message boards.
Check out the
poster artwork on Twitter here, along with the hashtags and a list of people/orgs involved:
And regarding private rooms:
How a network of little-known Twitter “rooms” helps die-hard fans amplify Trump’s message, attack CNN, and spread #MAGA to the world.
I've watched as the right has tried to distance itself from this, and it's pathetic. Its a 'conspiracy to effect a coup against Trump,' it's a 'false flag,' It's the 'deep state trying to discredit the right by planting fake alt-righters amongst them,' and on and on. They're filled with hate, they're empowered by Trump, and they want to pretend they're just being good 'patriots.' The only ones they're deceiving are themselves.
The
white supremacist response to Trump's unwillingness to put blame on the alt-right white supremacists:
Trump comments were good. He didn’t attack us. He just said the nation should come together. Nothing specific against us.
He said that we need to study why people are so angry, and implied that there was hate… on both sides!
So he implied the antifa are haters.
There was virtually no counter-signaling of us at all.
He said he loves us all.
Also refused to answer a question about White Nationalists supporting him.
No condemnation at all.
When asked to condemn, he just walked out of the room.
Really, really good.
God bless him.