An article at vice.com reports The Number of U.S. Hate Groups Keeps Surging, Largely Thanks to Young, White men:
The number of hate groups nationwide reached a record high in 2018, driven partly by the persistent growth of white nationalist groups catering to young, college-aged men.
There are currently 1,020 active hate groups in America — up from 954 in 2017, and 917 the previous year, according to an annual tally by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). The new, young face of hate emerged from the shadows during the 2016 election and organized through a shared language of memes and under the banner of the “alt-right.” Many hailed then-candidate Donald Trump, with his hard-line views on immigration, as a hero. In celebration of his election, the alt-right’s one-time de facto leader Richard Spencer led a room full of young men in suits to give Nazi salutes.
Since then, Spencer and other prominent actors, entangled in costly lawsuits and tired of being heckled by anti-fascist protesters, have faded into relative obscurity.
At the same time, groups like Identity Evropa — whose khaki-clad members were a formidable presence at the violent “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017— have proliferated and expanded their reach by setting up new chapters across the country. Patriot Front also grew significantly in 2018 after splintering from Vanguard America, the group linked to the 19-year-old neo-Nazi who rammed his car into a crowd of protesters during the Charlottesville rally and killed Heather Heyer.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Friday February 22 2019, @03:38PM (5 children)
You are either a better man than I am, or less of a man than I am. If a gaggle of people corner me as you describe, I will resort to violence. The bastards can kill me, if they are big and bad enough to do so - but they can't bend me to their will. Fuck blackmail.
(Cue the crowd who insists that violence never solved anything.)
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Kalas on Friday February 22 2019, @07:27PM (1 child)
Yep, just the kind of brilliant reasoning skills I've come to expect from you. Why risk arrest for false rape accusations when you can guarantee arrest for assault while doing nothing to stop the rape accusations.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 22 2019, @08:05PM
Not so much that violence never solves anything, just that Runaway never does. It's that intelligence thing we were talking about.
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Saturday February 23 2019, @02:36AM (2 children)
It's been pointed out that under its own criteria, the SPLC is a hate group. It's also been said that the only way to stop hate is to stand up to it. Also works with bullies and blackmail.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 2) by aristarchus on Saturday February 23 2019, @08:48AM (1 child)
Hmm, the old "Double Negative" meme, eh? Non-functional, Soylentil!
It is reported that once a Logician pontificated in a lecture that "while a double negative results in a positive, it has never been maintained that a double positive results in a negative!" From the back of the auditorium, an unidentifed voice intoned: "Yeah, right!"
So here we have it. Opposing racism by supporting mechanism to eradicate racism, is racist (affirmative action, for you not too bright Brietbarf White superpremises). And opposing Fascism, by punching Nazis in the face, castrating them, burning their asses completely off, and dropping 2000 pound bombs on them, is itself fascism. And finally, though I imagine there is much, much more: working to expose hate groups is being a hate group. None of this is logically correct. Hating whites who think that they are being hated for being white, when they are being hated for thinking they are being hated for being white, because, you know, they are fucking racists, is not hating them for being white! It is only OK to be white when you do not think it is OK to be white, because white is not a thing. Fuck you, whitey! Hating racists, and seeking to prosecute them for their crimes, is not racism, or hatred; it is justice.
So, Rexiac, you fucking cowardly craven yellow-bellied racist son of a bitch, do you feel lucky? Are you on SPLC watchlist? Huh? Do yah?
(Score: 2) by Reziac on Saturday February 23 2019, @02:42PM
Another quality faux outrage job; ol' Clint would be alarmed by the imitation.
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.