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Reporting on a White Supremacist Hate Group in Centralia — Isabel Vander Stoep, The Centralia Chronicle — #194


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A social media post by the mayor of Centralia and recent reporting by our guest, Isabel Vander Stoep, revealed the existence of an Asatru Folk Assembly (AFA) group in Centralia. So, this week we invited Vander Stoep to talk about her reporting on the group and their activities in the area. The AFA are a hate group that wraps their white-supremacist ideology up in Nordic traditions and folklore. 

Here’s the overview from the Southern Poverty Law Center:

They defend neo-confederacy and traffic in the Great Replacement conspiracy theory:

Being a Confederate is no longer about where you live or even on which side your ancestors fought. You can be from Ohio or Pennsylvania or New York because what is now happening in New Orleans and elsewhere in the South, is your battle, too… The people who want more immigration for the precise reason that it will ensure a non-white majority in America. … These people are not just after Southerners, they’re after you too.

They also traffic in the adjacent white-genocie conspiracy theory:

While AFA leadership has often couched the group’s bigoted views in “cultural preservation” rhetoric, the “Declaration of Purpose” on the group’s website belies those curated claims in stating: “If the Ethnic European Folk cease to exist Asatru would likewise no longer exist. Let us be clear: by Ethnic European Folk we mean white people.” Such beliefs in white genocide undergird the AFA’s adherence to ethnocentrism and rigid gender roles, two through lines connecting AFA’s ideology to that of the broader far right. 

For women they preach gender traditionalism against a “guereilla feminist” agenda:

It can be hard to know where we, as women, fit in today’s modern society; what exactly our role is; our purpose. Guerrilla feminism has torn the fabric of collective female self-awareness, and we are all led from birth on a journey away from ourselves, destined for confusion and depression via mass media marketing. We are brainwashed from birth to believe that our value as women is dependent on a combination of base sex appeal and a willingness to imitate our male counterparts in both personality and lifestyle.

 

Going Further

  • Isabel – Twitter
  • Takes & Typos on the coverage of the AFA
  • SPLC on AFA
  • Two Centralia Councilors Critical of Mayor for Speaking Out Against Shop With ‘Whites-Only’ Religious Ties
  • 2 men kicked out of National Guard over alleged white supremacist ties
  • Virginia Police Sergeant Suspended After Antifa Group Identifies White Nationalist Ties
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