RationalWiki:Webshites

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This is a list of webshites providing material that can be targeted by RationalWiki's snarkful analysis.

Contents

[edit] Abandon all hope

[edit] Right-wing

[edit] Left-wing

[edit] YEC and ID

[edit] Bible-thumping

[edit] Quran-thumping

[edit] Racists

In the past, RationalWiki has avoided linking to racist sites. Although there is no fixed policy, we err on the side of caution. If you must see them, and they're not linked from the articles below, Google them by name and read the cached versions of the pages.

  • American Nazi Party (www.americannaziparty.com).
  • Anglo-Saxon Foundation (www.englisc-gateway.com): A forum of hardline English nationalists—which sounds straightforward, except in practice they're far, far weirder than that.
  • Aryan Nations (www.aryan-nation.org).
  • Aryan Wear (www.aryanwear.com): Sells neo-Nazi books, clothing, collectibles, DVDs and flags. Is currently having a 25% off Hitler's birthday sale. Thanks, but no thanks.
  • AssataShakur.org (www.assatashakur.org): For a change of pace, try these anti-white black supremacists. You get all the incoherency of Time Cube while you're at it.
  • British National Party (www.bnp.org.uk): "God save the Führer!"
  • Chimpout.com (www.chimpout.com): No neo-Nazism, white nationalism or neo-confederate cloggery; just the plain old bashing of blacks for the sake of the bashing of blacks.
  • Counter-Currents Publishing (www.counter-currents.com): One of the books it sells is titled "The Homo and the Negro". 'Nuff said.
  • DixieNet.Org (www.dixienet.org): The League of the South's official webshite.
  • European Union Times (www.eutimes.net): No, it's not a newspaper, even if some people think so. Neither is it European.
  • Institute for Historical Review (www.ihr.org): Try to guess the one part of history this organization has any interest whatsoever in "reviewing"...
  • Jew Watch (www.jewwatch.com): The place to go if you want to watch some Jews.
  • The Knights Party (www.kkk.com): Fancy some Ku Klux Klan T-shirts and a television show? No, neither do we.
  • Metapedia (www.metapedia.org): Wikipedia as written by neo-nazis.
  • The National Alliance (www.natvan.com).
  • National Socialist Movement (www.nsm88.org): Nazi party webshite.
  • Newsnet 14 (www.newsnet14.com).
  • Niggermania (www.niggermania.com): Chimpout's brother-in-arms.
  • Occidental Dissent (www.occidentaldissent.com).
  • Political Vel Craft: Promotes various brands of bigotry, though primarily anti-Semitism.
  • Stormfront (www.stormfront.org): The quintessential white nationalist online sinkhole.
  • Vanguard News Network (www.vanguardnewsnetwork.com).
  • VDARE (www.vdare.com): Peter Brimelow's more-than-just-borderline-racist ‘editorial collective’ and one-stop “let's hate on the Mexicans” webshite.
  • Whitehonor.com (www.whitehonor.com).
  • Youth for Western Civilization (www.westernyouth.org).

[edit] Homophobic

[edit] Sexist

[edit] MRAs, MGTOWs, PUAs, Nice Guys/Incels/AFCs

[edit] Radfems

[edit] Biblical womandoormathood

[edit] Global-warming denialists

[edit] Bloggers

[edit] Alternative medicine and other quackery

[edit] Alien aficionados

[edit] Conspiracists

These sites tend to go well beyond conspiracies into one-stop nuttery shopping. Here is where you may find besides the conspiracy theories: Christian and New Age woo side by side, anti-Semitism and seeming opposition to same on the same site, alt-meds, UFOs, cryptozoology and those all-knowing lizard people.

[edit] Randroids and Austrian schoolers

[edit] Survivalists and doomsday-preppers

[edit] Sometimes shameful

  • Citizendium (http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Welcome_to_Citizendium): Initially a well-intentioned effort to trump wikipedia that requiried the authors of its articles to actually be certified experts on the subjects in question, it promptly became a mouthpiece for pseudoscience promoters and has floundered ever since.
  • Huffington Post (http://www.huffingtonpost.com): Arianna Huffington's site has a lot of good news and political content, albeit with an annoying tendency toward progressive orthodoxy (read: U.S. Democratic Party) despite Arianna's having supported Ralph Nader in 2000. On the other hand, the site is full of alt-med woo and New Age nuttery, and the occasional vaccine denialism. Read selectively.
  • Lew Rockwell (http://www.lewrockwell.com): Libertarian-flavored wingnuttery. Also runs columns by Ron Paul, Joseph Mercola, and Gary North. Lots of woo and general craziness as well: Creationism, Christian dominionism, global warming denial, diet woo, quackery, gold buggery, anti-vaccine, 9/11 conspiracy, raw milk, and Neo-Confederate rants. Runs frequent good columns (they're hardcore anti-war, critical of the culture of militarism rampant in the U.S., pro-drug legalization, anti-airport security and police overkill, etc.) and several columnists whom one might agree with almost always. The problem is all that good writing is side by side with the likes of neo-Confederates, Christian fundies and all that woo. Read selectively or just visit Antiwar.com where you can get the good content minus the baggage.
  • Reason (http://www.reason.com): "Free minds and free markets", plays the moderate cosmopolitan libertarian counter to Lew Rockwell's radical paleo-libertarianism. Like Rockwell, makes a point of standing on principle and so both Rockwell and Reason are largely devoid of the corporate astroturf that dominates other so-called libertarian sites. Unlike Rockwell, Reason is pro-choice, pro-gay etc. and doesn't hold much truck for quacks, Christian fundamentalists, and woo-meisters. Not without serious problems of its own: chief among them a tendency to veer into neoconservatism, and another being the open comments format is a hive of nastiness.
  • TV Tropes (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePage): Generally very funny and insightful; just try to stay abreast of the flame wars, childish antics of people who have nothing better to do then hate fandoms and the psychotic mods.

[edit] Not fitting anywhere else

[edit] Also access

  • Poe's Law: Lists some parody webshites.
  • List of Internet kooks: A fair bit of overlap with this list, although it covers a few of the greats of flamewars past as well.
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