White supremacist online networks actively sought real-world meeting and dating contact

Evidence

Attempts have also been made to combine Net activism with “real world” association. The RaceLink web page offers a list of activists’ contact details and locations. It aims to put racists in contact with each other. The page includes mostly American links but it also provides contact e-mail addresses and post office boxes in Canada, Germany, Portugal, South Africa, and the United Kingdom. Additionally, The Aryan Dating Page offers a contact service for white supremacists. Entries are listed for men and women, sometimes including pictures. While most of the profiles are American, there are also personal ads from a range of countries including Brazil, Canada, Holland, Norway, Portugal, UK, Slovakia, and Australia. In June 1998 the page included 140 advertisements from white men, of which 80 percent were from the United States and 15 percent from Canada. There were also 60 personal advertisements from white women. Again these were mostly American (68 percent) but the page also links to a considerable number of white South African women (17 percent of all ads) through a mailing list compiled by Zunata Kay. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2564

Categorization

• SEED: Part of a bigger story about how extremist communities build dating and family-forming infrastructure to reproduce themselves demographically — a ‘breeding for the cause’ angle.