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Metapedia should not be confused with the WikimediaMeta-Wiki, which is not racist, just boring. Or withMatapédia,which is mostly not racist, and is also boring. Or withMeta, the re-branded corporate name forFacebook, which supports its racism-spouting users with far more advertisements and creepyOrwellian tracking.

Metapedia is abarely active^[3] wiki which describes itself as "an electronic encyclopedia aboutculture,art,science,philosophy andpolitics." Inreality, however, Metapedia is little more than thinly-veiledwhite nationalist andneo-Nazipropaganda, with a generous helping ofHolocaust denial. The site is awash inanti-Semiticconspiracy theory. A key trope is blaming theJews for undermining the West viacultural Marxism.

History[edit]

Metapedia has its origins with the founders of thefar-right Swedish web community Nordisk.nu. In 2006.^[4] the original Swedish Metapedia was created by Anders Lagerström, from Linköping,Sweden. Lagerström is aneo-Nazi activist who has been convicted for violent offenses, including assaulting apolice officer:

Anders Lagerström has long been involved in extreme right-wing organizations. In 2000, he was sentenced for having sprayed tear gas in the face of a police officer. In 2002 he started the Nordic publishing house, which specializes in issuing and selling Nazi literature and white power music. Lagerström is also a prominent figure in the Nordic Association. The Nazi organization wants it to form a 'Nordic nation'. On the organization's website it says the following about how this imaginary nation should look like: 'It means a society populated by a people and a government and the media are completely under Nordic control.^[5]

In 2007,Hungarian andEnglish Metapedia wiki sites appeared^[6][7]. In 2008, a Croatian version of Metapedia was started^[8][9]. Metapedia has since expanded to 16language versions.

Rightpedia[edit]

There was a dispute between admins on Metapedia in 2013 and 2014 about the direction of the website and its content. One admin ("Atlantid") left after arguing Metapedia should abandonwhite nationalism,racialism andHolocaust denial for right-wingpopulism, others however argued Metapedia should turn more anti-Semitic and become openlyneo-Nazi. This led to several Metapedia admins ("Mikemikev", "Hu1" and "Wyatt Man") creatingRightpedia, a more extreme version of Metapedia. Both moderate and extreme factions ended up being banned/expelled from Metapedia and the current admin "Upplysning" maintains astatus-quo of the old Metapedia content: still promoting white nationalism andHolocaust denial, albeit in a less crude way than Rightpedia does. Since 2015,Rightpedia and Metapedia have written articles attacking each other.^[10][11] However, Metapedia criticized Rightpediafor legitimate reasons, including promoting themoon hoax andChemtrails conspiracy theories^[12][13] and claiming that Blacks are more closely related to apes than to other humans.^[14]

Financing[edit]

Metapedia occasionally runs public fundraisers. In 2012,Nick Griffin donated 50 euros.^[15]

Admins[edit]

As of 2019, the main English Metapedia has only 3 regular editors who are admins:

• Upplysning: a SwedishHolocaust denier, whose edits are mostly on Holocaust related entries.
• NatAll75: a former member of thewhite nationalist National Alliance.
• Matt58: (formerly Greg Frost, Cicero):Gregory Lauder-Frost

Content[edit]

Much content is copied fromWikipedia under theGFDL and then edited to remove any critical POV on sensitive topics including:Nazi andfascist politics andhistory;World War II history (especially Nazi military tactics and equipment); and individuals and concepts specific to the political far-right. Hilariously, it refers to articles largely copied from Wikipedia as "articles in need of neutralization". The articles' perspectives onscience andhistory — for example, their explanation ofHolocaust denial — are twisted in order to bolster their ridiculous premises; the writing on topics related toracialism are mostly also copy-pastes.

Pan-Europeanism[edit]

Metapedia promoteswhite nationalism in a pan-European sense, rather than individual ethno-cultural nationalisms by country (i.e.civic nationalism). This has led to some previous disputes on on the site, as "Upplysning" seems to be hostile toBrexit (a bit likeRichard Spencer) and has also criticized past editors for making anti-Slavic statements. It is a well known fact the Nazis didn't like Slavs^{[citation NOT needed]}, but "Upplysning" argues this isBolshevik propaganda.

"Upplysning" was also troubled by Metapedia's article on theBritish National Party, in which it was mentioned that the BNP opposes mass immigration to the UK from Eastern Europe, such as Poland. He then re-wrote the whole article, removing this detail in the process.

Finally, instead of discussing culture in terms of nationality, like "French" or "German", Metapedia only promotes a singular "European people and culture" as well as a "white European race".^[16]

Racialism[edit]

The Metapedia entries onracialism written by "Upplysning" consist of repeating PRATTS (points refuted a thousand times), spamming "Lewontin's fallacy" over and over, while copy-pasting large chunks of text fromJohn Fuerst's bookThe Nature of Race; the book was published in apseudo-journal, externally reviewed by a white nationalist,Kevin MacDonald. In other words it's not science, but shoddy politics. Amusingly though "Upplysning" accuses anti-racialists as being politically motivated orMarxists.

Jews, Holocaust and anti-Semitism[edit]

Metapedia formerly posted a yellow Star of David tag next to anyone of Jewish heritage (reminiscent of theone-drop rule, this includes people who had Jewish ancestors but were not themselves fully or religiously Jewish, such asVladimir Lenin^[17]).One person who notablyisn't marked in this manner, however, isJesus Christ, and his nationality is listed only as "Roman citizen".^[18]Hmm... The stars have since been removed (although they are left up onRightpedia), but the same anti-Semitic content remains on Metapedia pages such as wacky conspiracy theories regarding Zionists, an obsession with Jews being behind cultural Marxism, and support for Holocaust revisionism. Although "Upplysning" attempts to portray himself as more reasonable than the overtNeo-Nazi stance of Rightpedia, his edits and sources show he's in the same boat; e.g. the sort of odious andcrank literature he references on the Holocaust entry includes formerKKK leaderDavid Duke, and theInstitute for Historical Review.

Islam[edit]

There was once a page on Metapedia dedicated to "Reactionary defences of Islam", which "refers to attempts to defend the religion of Islam as a viable option for ethnic Europeans, following the degeneration of Christianity into liberalism and the unconvincing nature of attempts at revivingpaganism".^[19] Some Metapedia admin apparently at one stage were prepared to ally with extremist Muslims against Jews, however this tactic appears to have been dropped. There are someIslamophobic postings on Metapedia, but one gets the impression its admins hate Jews more than Muslims.

Sample comments[edit]

Metapedian neologisms[edit]

"Volkenhass" (ungrammatical and bastardizedGerman for "people-hate," apparently^[39]) is a word which does not exist in any sane version of the English or German languages. Nevertheless, it is used by Metapedia –and wikinfo – to pretend that "racism" means something nice. The German term "Völkerhaß" means literally "hatred of other nations" and isn't a real German word, either.

See also[edit]

• Michael Coombs
• Poe's Law
• Youth for Western Civilization
• Holocaust denial
• Rightpedia, Metapedia's even crazier cousin
• National mysticism - what thatbullshit about 'descendants of the god-men of Hyperborea and Ultima Thule' is.
• Human Phenotypes - race typology nonsense the typical Metapedia user supports

External links[edit]

• Metapedia's home page

References[edit]

• Bronze-level articles
• Nazism
• Wikis
• Alt-right
• Holocaust denial
• Homophobia
• Internet hate sites
• Internet kooks
• Neo-Nazism
• Pissed at us
• Racism
• Antisemitism
• Webshites

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