Comments on a website with neo-Nazi leanings appear similar to passages from the manifesto of Dylann Roof, the 21-year-old white man charged with killing nine black parishioners last week at the historic Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., according to an analysis by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
The organization ran text from the online manifesto on LastRhodesian.com through a software program that detects plagiarism, and found that passages were similar to comments posted by "AryanBlood1488" to articles on the website of the Daily Stormer.
In one example, a section from the manifesto is nearly identical to a comment posted on a Jan.