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The following is a list of webshites which may benefit from RationalWiki's snarkful analysis. Be on the lookout for stuff to submit to our What is going on in the clogosphere? page, and to Fundies Say The Darndest Things, but be forewarned, prolonged exposure may result in the following side effects: nausea, depression, high blood pressure, loss of IQ, periodic outbursts of hysterical guffaws, broken keyboards and monitors. Remember to keep Poe's Law in mind.

Contents

[edit] Abandon all hope


[edit] Right-wing

[edit] Left-wing

  • Andrew Gavin Marshall (http://andrewgavinmarshall.com/): An "independent researcher" and activist who pretty much exemplifies Globalresearch.ca and Truthout at their worst. Left-conspiracist material abounds with a strong emphasis on the sinister Federal Reserve and corporate New World Order along with crank-laden woo that wouldn't be out of place in Infowars.
  • Being Liberal (https://www.facebook.com/beingliberal.org). As with Being Conservative above, it's a Facebook Like page, with nothing bad originally in concept. After BC started making its rounds, BL decided to "balance the scales" and essentially became your go-to resource for Republican and Libertarian bashing, with liberal bias all around.
  • Corbett Report (http://www.corbettreport.com/): An alternative news site that despite being left-wing is as far from the Colbert Report as you can imagine. 9/11 conspiracies and NWO schemes aplenty, which is not helped at all by his ties to Globalresearch.ca.
  • Counterpunch (http://www.counterpunch.org/): A very leftist online magazine founded by Alexander Cockburn. It's made its professed leftism and radical sympathies clear over the years, as well as seen contributions from the likes of Noam Chomsky and Ralph Nader. What is more, Counterpunch's reputation of including anti-Semitic screeds, the crankier sides of the left-wing (including Pol Pot apologetics and genocide denialism[1]), and a tendency to milk Godwin's law on what they hate have made it positively infamous.
  • Globalresearch.ca (http://www.globalresearch.ca): Anti-globalisation, anti-war news aggregator website which unfortunately loves them some conspiracy theory and can't resist indulging in various woo topics. An example of a left-conspiracist approach that can't, or won't, distinguish between serious analysis and discreditable junk, and so promotes both.
  • Maoist Rebel News (http://maoistrebelnews.wordpress.com/)
  • RevLeft (http://www.revleft.com/vb).
  • Revolution News (http://revolution-news.com/): A largely anonymously-run website with a presence on Facebook that's devoted to the radical world of protest. While the site does cover some legitimate rallies and movements, there's also a strong bias towards anarchists and far-left movements. Its "news" coverage, some of it aggregated from dubious sources, vary in accuracy, objectivity and credibility, if not ideological and borderline-conspiracist crankery.
  • ROAR Magazine (http://www.roarmag.org/‎): An unabashedly radical journal founded during the Occupy Oakland protests as an "alternative media collective." While there isn't any overt conspiracy-mongering, the site has over time become a self-righteous cross between RevLeft and Truthout, where the evil menace of capitalism is everywhere and its vaunted global revolution is just around the corner.
  • UK Indymedia (http://www.indymedia.org.uk) A great place for heartfelt paeans to rioting and arson.

[edit] YEC and ID

[edit] Bible-thumping

[edit] Quran-thumping

[edit] Hindutva

[edit] Miscellaneous religious text-thumping

[edit] Racist

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.

  • Age of Treason (www.age-of-treason.blogspot.com).
  • Alternative Right (www.alternativeright.com).
  • Ambrose Kane (www.ambrosekane.com): Blog run by a white supremacist (er, "traditionalist conservative") ex-cop.
  • American Freedom Party (american3rdposition.com).
  • American Nazi Party (www.americannaziparty.com).
  • American Renaissance (www.amren.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.
  • The Apricity Forum (www.theapricity.com/forum/forum.php).
  • 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.
  • The Barnes Review (www.barnesreview.org): Publishers of historical revision, with a special emphasis on Holocaust denial and general Jew-bashing.
  • Beyond Highbrow (robertlindsay.wordpress.com).
  • Blonde on a Mission (www.blonde-on-a-mission.tumblr.com): The mission in question doesn't appear to entail a lot more than posting a sentence or two of white nationalist commentary on news reports or pictures pertaining to racial and social issues.
  • British National Party (www.bnp.org.uk): "God save the Führer!"
  • Caste Football (www.castefootball.us): A website created especially by and for racist sports fans.
  • Chimpmania (www.chimpmania.com).
  • 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.
  • Chronicles (www.chroniclesmagazine.org).
  • Confederate Renaissance (www.confederaterenaissance.com).
  • Council of Conservative Citizens (www.topconservativenews.com).
  • Counter-Currents Publishing (www.counter-currents.com): White nationalist publishing company. Even deals in fiction, if that's your bag...
  • Deconstructing Leftism (www.deconstructingleftism.wordpress.com).
  • Diversity is Chaos (www.diversityischaos.blogspot.com).
  • DixieNet.Org (www.dixienet.org): The League of the South's official webshite.
  • The End of Zion (www.theendofzion.com): Its logo showcases a figure performing a roundhouse kick on a rabbi. Nice.
  • English Defence League (www.englishdefenceleague.org/). Islamophobes who expressed their outrage at the murder of Lee Rigby by throwing bottles at the police. Motto: Not racist, not violent, no longer silent.
  • European Union Times (www.eutimes.net): No, it's not a newspaper, even if some people think so. Neither is it European.
  • Exposing the Holocaust™ Hoax (exposing-the-holocaust-hoax-archive.blogspot.com).
  • Faith & Heritage (www.faithandheritage.com).
  • Federation for American Immigration Reform (www.fairus.org/): An organization that sounds official created by a bunch of Neo-Nazis. They have been accused of Schlafly statistics in the past.
  • Golden Dawn (golden-dawn-international-newsroom.blogspot.gr).
  • Hail to You (hailtoyou.wordpress.com).
  • Half Sigma (www.halfsigma.com).
  • Hbdchick (hbdchick.wordpress.com).
  • History in Images (www.historyimages.blogspot.com): Dedicated to portraying Germans as victims of genocide, and sustaining some of the more ridiculous claims used for backdoor Holocaust denial.
  • Holocaust History.net (www.holocaust-history.net): Another backdoor Holocaust denial webshite dedicated to portraying the Germans as victims of WWII. It's blatantly unabashed about announcing their sympathies with the Nazis when they take the pseudo moral high ground.
  • Incredible Images for You (www.incredibleimages4u.blogspot.com): WE ARE NOT PRO NAZI.
  • Inductivist (inductivist.blogspot.com).
  • Institute for Historical Review (www.ihr.org): Try to guess the one part of history this organization has any interest whatsoever in "reviewing"…
  • iSteve (isteve.blogspot.ca): Steve Sailer's blog.
  • Jew Among You (www.jewamongyou.wordpress.com).
  • 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.
  • The Last Gringo (thelastgringo.com): California blogger obsessed with the "Mexican invasion" of the U.S. being orchestrated as part of the New World Order.
  • Lion of the Blogosphere (www.lionoftheblogosphere.wordpress.com): Formerly Half Sigma, this blogger combines a focus on "human biodiversity" with generous side helpings of misogyny, class bigotry, and good old-fashioned Social Darwinism.
  • Majority Rights (www.majorityrights.com): A groop that looks forward to the worst effects of global warming because they will kill off most non-whites. Believes that white people will survive an environmental catastrophe because they "already inhabit areas that are cooler," "have the intelligence to develop new technologies," "are capable of taking an anti-egalitarian position if needed to preserve [their] friends and families" and they "behave rationally..."
  • Mangan's (www.mangans.blogspot.com).
  • Martin Luther King.org (www.martinlutherking.org): Created by Stormfront to defame Martin Luther King.
  • Metapedia (www.metapedia.org): Wikipedia as written by neo-nazis.
  • Model Minority (www.modelminority.com): Purportedly an anti-racist website; in practice, a watering hole for anti-white, anti-Semitic Asian supremacists pissed about whitey stealing all their women.
  • Murder by Media (murderbymedia.wordpress.com).
  • My Posting Career (mpcdot.com/forums/).
  • The Naive Gatekeeper (bclaym.wordpress.com): Not only white nationalist and heavily anti-Semitic, but supportive of Christian theocracy, Holocaust denial, and misogyny. Overtly praises the Nazis and subtly supports the idea of a race war.
  • The National Alliance (www.natvan.com).
  • National Socialist Movement (www.nsm88.org): Nazi party webshite.
  • National Vanguard (www.nationalvanguard.org).
  • Newsnet 14 (www.newsnet14.com).
  • Niggermania (www.niggermania.com): Chimpout's brother-in-arms.
  • Northwest Front (www.northwestfront.org).
  • Occam's Razor (www.occamsrazormag.wordpress.com).
  • Occidental Dissent (www.occidentaldissent.com).
  • Occidental Observer (www.occidentalobserver.net).
  • The Occidental Quarterly (www.toqonline.com).
  • PodBlanc (www.podblanc.mobi): A white supremacist version of YouTube.
  • Political Vel Craft (www.politicalvelcraft.org): Promotes various brands of bigotry, though primarily anti-Semitism.
  • Radish Mag (www.radishmag.wordpress.com): Anti-democracy, radical traditionalist group for racists and misogynists.
  • Radix Journal (www.radixjournal.com).
  • RBG Tube (www.rbgtube.com): A black supremacist version of YouTube; affiliated with AssataShakur.org.
  • Rightpedia (right.orain.org): A fork of Metapedia operated by former Metapedia users and hosted by Orain.
  • The Right Stuff (therightstuff.biz): See Lion of the Blogosphere. Basically obnoxiously right-wing internet tough guys with a strong belief in "racial realism".
  • The Slitty Eye (www.theslittyeye.wordpress.com): Obnoxious Asian 'human biodiversity' advocate, served with cheap shots at feminists.
  • Southern Nationalist Network (www.southernnationalist.com).
  • Stormfront (www.stormfront.org): The quintessential white nationalist online sinkhole.
  • Stuff Black People Don't Like (www.stuffblackpeopledontlike.blogspot.com).
  • Stuff Eurasian Males Like (www.stuffeurasianslike.wordpress.com): Being the son of white male/Asian female interracial couple is like being Joseph Merrick. Such couples oughta be ashamed to have conceived!
  • Theden (www.theden.tv).
  • Truth Militia (www.truthmilitia.com).
  • Unamusement Park (www.unamusementpark.com).
  • Unity of Nobility (www.unityofnobility.com): Provides "De-Kosherized News & Research Material".
  • The Unz Review (www.unz.com).
  • Vanguard News Network (www.vanguardnewsnetwork.com) and VNNforum (www.vnnforum.com).
  • VDARE (www.vdare.com): Peter Brimelow's more-than-just-borderline-racist ‘editorial collective’ and one-stop “let's hate on the blacks, Mexicans, and Jews” webshite.
  • Western Spring (www.westernspring.co.uk).
  • West Hunter (westhunt.wordpress.com).
  • The West's Darkest Hour (www.chechar.com).
  • White News Now (www.whitenewsnow.com).
  • The White Republican (thewhiterepublican.blogspot.com).
  • Whitehonor.com (www.whitehonor.com).
  • Who Controls America? (thezog.wordpress.com): If you guessed "The JOOOOOOOOS!", you're right.
  • Wong Chow Mein (www.wongchowmein.blogspot.com): Asian dude in bed with the 'anti-leftist' crowd. Also appears to have major self-esteem issues.
  • Youth for Western Civilization (www.westernyouth.org).

[edit] Homophobic

[edit] Sexist

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

[edit] TERFs and other off-the-deep-end radfems

[edit] Biblical womandoormathood

[edit] (Mostly) secular doormathood

[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

  • American Preppers Network (http://americanpreppersnetwork.com).
  • December212012.com (http://www.december212012.com/index.shtml): 2012 Apocalypse and Planet X/Nibiru fearmongering. Is still online, in spite of the fact that, well, you know...
  • The Economic Collapse Blog (http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com): Survivalist wingnuttery, constant predictions of impending doom, failing at basic economics, paranoia, gold buggery, it's all here.
  • Martial Law Survival (http://www.martiallawsurvival.com): A plug for a book by a purported former soldier and political advisor "revealing" how the US government is soon going to institute martial law and lock tax protestors and abortion opponents up in FEMA concentration camps, as well as what said persons can do to prepare.
  • Northeast PA Polar Shift Preparedness Site (http://www.nepanewsletter.com/polar.html): The world as we know it will end next year with the shifting of the magnetic poles and only a few people in Pennsylvania know. The N.E.P.A. website may help you prepare and will also explain crop circles.
  • Storm Clouds Gathering (http://stormcloudsgathering.com/): A sleekly designed website layered over a survivalist and crank-laden mess that makes the average Tea Party look sane. Where World War III and the impending collapse of the economy/nation/global civilization/etc. is just around the corner, with a good helping of NWO, 9/11 trutherism, and a kitchen sink of conspiracy propaganda. Warning: clicking the link may cause one to lose hope in humanity. That said, they don't mince words when it comes to racists and neo-Nazis, so there's at least one thing going for them. Also, hear all about what you're "not being told" by the "corporate media", like: The DHS has bought 1.6 billion rounds of ammunition, the US is preparing for a coming economic crash ... by planning to put people in slave camps, and the Sarin gas in Syria in August 2013 was orchestrated by Obama in order to blame Assad so he could go to war with Syria's allies (which, of course, the site talked about before the attack even took place).
  • The Survival Zone (http://www.thesurvivalzone.com).

[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.
  • Common Dreams (https://www.commondreams.org/): A progressive independent news and aggregate site with a variety of articles and links. On the other hand, it's also "progressive" in a very similar manner to Truthout and OpEdNews, with a habit of including (and attracting) a number of writers from the crankier and more hardline/radical sides of the left wing. Read very selectively.
  • The Guardian (http://www.theguardian.com/uk): One of Britain's leading newspapers, that's gained a reputation for controversial reporting and being one of the main outlets for the NSA leaks. On the other hand, its Comment is Free section is both Sturgeon's Law and Poe's Law in action as anyone can post there, including those espousing all sorts of stupidity.
  • 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.
  • Occupy.com (http://www.occupy.com/): Created as attempt at being the Huffington Post for the Occupy Wall Street crowd, it takes pride in promoting alternative media and viewpoints from activists though it's not formally endorsed by the movement's main players. On the other hand, similarly to its inspiration the site has an increasingly prevalent tendency to promote woo and crank-laden ideas (including oddly enough the moonbat variants of Monsanto and NWO conspiracies) as said "alternative viewpoints" along with aggregating more dubious sources alongside legitimate media outlets. As a result, it just teeters on replicating the same mistakes Truthout made. Read very selectively.
  • openDemocracy (http://www.opendemocracy.net/): A self-described "digital commons" based in the United Kingdom, whose tagline is "Free thinking for the world." As a debate floor of sorts for international politics, culture and other issues, it provides various articles and opinion pieces from academics, policymakers, journalists and the occasional activist that cover the political spectrum. That said, its professed pluralism can depend considerably on one's biases and has been criticized by some media outlets for providing voices for less worthwhile viewpoints. Thus at times, it can come across as Comment is Free for the intelligentsia if you're not careful.
  • 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.
  • Reddit (http://www.reddit.com)
  • 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 than hate fandoms, and the psychotic mods.

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[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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