Publisher's Synopsis
"Might is Right or Survival of the Fittest" was a little known work published in 1896 until it was brought to the attention of the public by the Gilroy Shooter, Santino William Legan, who was shot dead by police after he posted online about the 1896 racist manifesto, "Might is Right or The Survival of the Fittest".
The Gilroy gunman killed three people including a six year old boy and thirteen year old girl in Gilroy California on July 28, 2019 and wounded a dozen more at the Gilroy Garlic Festival in Northern California. He was an angry 19-year-old who had recently waded into the world of white supremacy.
"Read Might is Right by Ragnar Redbeard," Legan posted on his Instagram page. He then used a slurs against mixed-race people and misogynistic descriptions of white Silicon Valley workers, complaining about "hordes" of them "overcrowding" towns.
Redbeard, which was a pseudonym, argued that only strength and violence determined what is morally right. The work, which is filled with misogynistic and anti-Semitic rhetoric, is a staple among neo-Nazis and white supremacists on extremist sites.
The phrase "might is right" is often posted as a sort of motto or catchphrase indicating white supremacy on neo-Nazi extremist forums.
