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8chan, the Hate Site That's Hard to Kill

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

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News, Daily News, News Commentary, Politics

4.62.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2019

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

The 8chan message board has become synonymous with hate speech. It’s been a go-to forum for mass shooters’ manifestos. It courts devotees of the cultish QAnon conspiracy theory. In August, 8chan was booted from the internet, but now the forum is making a comeback, in spite of the dogged group of activists and journalists trying to take it offline permanently. Guest: Robert Evans, investigative journalist for Bellingcat and host of the podcast, Behind the Bastards. Podcast production by Mary Wilson, Jayson De Leon, Danielle Hewitt, and Mara Silvers. Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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There's this video I can't stop thinking about. It got posted on YouTube after the

0:38.3

Christchurch shootings last spring. An American guy living in the Philippines, his name is Jim

0:44.6

Watkins. He starts straight out at the camera. Piano music plays in the background.

0:50.2

Condolences to the victims of the New Zealand shootings. So many pious folks lost because

0:56.9

of psychotic rage. Jim Watkins is an older guy with mutton chops and a mustache. He's got

1:03.4

these bushy eyebrows that are combed up to make little points above his glasses. Videos

1:09.2

like this one, they've become a bit of a ritual for this guy. After shootings in Texas

1:15.1

in Ohio this summer, he was at it again.

1:24.1

What a sad weekend. I just finished watching the president of the United States give his

1:30.0

condolences to the families of the victims of the Opassal Wal-Mart shooting and the date

1:35.3

in Ohio shooting. His speeches seem like they're a sick kind of joke. If you could only

1:42.2

figure out what the joke is. Such a sad day and time in the history of the world. The

1:50.3

worst sort of monster shoots up random people. That it is the fact that insanity is obviously

1:58.2

involved. He communicates bizarrely. I don't really know what's going on in the dude's head.

2:06.2

Robert Evans watches these videos as part of his job. He covers extremism and the internet.

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