ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book examines the discourse and the language produced by members of the Stormfront online community who wrote texts related to homosexuality. Hate may be defined as a profound and sustained dislike and disapproval towards an individual or group based on their race, ethnicity, religion, gender or sexual orientation. White heterosexual hegemonic masculinity strongly influences the online practices of Stormfront members, yet nevertheless the participatory nature of Stormfront permits a variety of constructions of gender and sexuality, although such constructions vary over quite a narrow margin compared to mainstream Western society. The linguistic study of the corpus of Stormfront texts has revealed that the forum members consider their collective identity as the norm, while excluding, repressing and negating those groups they deem to be outside the norm.
