White supremacists present themselves online as ordinary, respectable people

Evidence

One of the interesting things about scrolling through the personal ads is that the faces that appear are nothing like the archetypal image of “The Racist.” There are very few skinheads with Nazi tattoos: these white supremacist “lonely hearts” - mostly in their twenties and thirties - look surprisingly prosaic. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2565 (#expands, via linked claim)

Sometimes I feel like one of the early Christians in the Roman Empire. Like us they had to sneak around, underground, preaching their message with the constant fear of being caught out and fed to the lions. I wonder if the people in this movement will be looked back on as the saviours of the white race in another 2,000 years, or just a bunch of paronoid outcasts. — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 981 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: White nationalists feel emboldened to voice their views openly in ordinary settings — Anna Merlan, Republic of Lies, 734; Contemporary white supremacists present themselves as ordinary, mainstream people — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2565; White supremacists frame themselves as persecuted underdog martyrs — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 981 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Contemporary white supremacists present themselves as ordinary, mainstream people #expands (0.97) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2565
• White supremacists frame themselves as persecuted underdog martyrs #complicates (0.72) — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 981