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: 5, Informative) by julian on Friday February 22 2019, @11:44PM (2 children)
Democrats aren't saying this. This is literally a right wing troll meme on Twitter dot com directed at out of work journalists.
This is a lie, but I can't blame some people for falling for it. These jobs didn't leave America; they left the Earth, they're leaving humanity. In the last century we outsourced them to the first generation of robots, Chinese people, and now we are rolling out the second generation which are actual mechanical robots. The jobs aren't coming back, but the manufacturing is.
Well, I can't really argue with that. If he wants to keep a firm grip on his penis...I mean gun, to feel "strong" then he's welcome. He'll have plenty of time to spend with his guns since he'll remain unemployed and useless to our oligarchic economy since he was terrible at life priorities and continued to vote for the party that would rather feed his hatred than his belly.
I just never see this, and I'm a white male so I think I would notice. He should take off the "They Live" glasses of imagined white victimhood.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 23 2019, @06:16AM
You do know why it is a right-wing troll meme don't you?
There was some guy teaching a very few coal miners to code after they were laid off. Good on him and great for those who can learn to code.
The shitty side came when anti-coal journalists started telling all the laid-off workers "learn to code". Throwing it back at the journalists when they in turn were laid off was predictable and justified.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 24 2019, @11:01AM
Oh, where exactly is China if it's not on Earth?