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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: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 22 2019, @11:00AM (7 children)
Well here is the other side.
> 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)
"Groups" can be a single person who is counted multiple times, and includes groups who are Norse pagans and some D&D roleplayers, muslim reformists or muslims who had their genitals mutilated. [reason.com]
> 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.
The "full room" is a few random people as you can see in the video [youtube.com], and some of which came on twitter and admitted they did it because they were against Spencer and and knew the media would pick up on it. When you spread that somebody is a Nazi long enough you'll get a gathering of Nazis. I do not endorse Spencer, but he isn't the one spreading messages in people's houses to rile them up to get them to kill me, with media attention barely anybody would know his message at all, or be mislead to think he is a Nazi, he is close to a white separatist, like there were black separatists.
> 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.
He was chased by a professor with an AR15 gun [chronicle.com] enticing him to get away, which led to him running over a person in a crowd. It wasn't enough for the Jury, as the professor was acquitted of both misdemeanor charges, but that side of the story doesn't make the news. It doesn't make things right either, but it happened.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 22 2019, @11:54AM (5 children)
Funny how the Justice Dept, FBI, the DA and a jury of his peers [wikipedia.org] didn't see it this way.
The justice in US is either totally fucked or you are lying through your nose. The link you provided? I ain't gonna pay no damned money to read it.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday February 22 2019, @04:06PM (3 children)
I haven't heard one single word about any college professor with an AR-15, until I read that post. Not only do I call bullshit, but it's not even very good bullshit.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 22 2019, @06:16PM (1 child)
It was a couple of blocks away, but he was chased by a bunch with rifles and baseball bats beating on his car. It got ignored by the media, and was far enough away that running from them wasn't considered a defense for driving into the crowd.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 22 2019, @09:47PM
And also not true, and an alt-right talking point. Fake propaganda.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 22 2019, @11:41PM
Try 5 links from here: https://www.google.com/search?q=charolletville+dwane+dixon+ar-15&btnG=Search [google.com]
Perhaps you only trust The Guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/dec/06/charlottesville-trial-james-fields-dwayne-dixon-testimony-scared-away [theguardian.com]
"The defense also called to the stand Dwayne Dixon, who said he was a member of Redneck Revolt, a national network of militant anti-fascist, anti-racist groups, and he was armed with an AR-15 assault rifle. He claimed in an earlier social media post that he had scared Fields away from a park where counter-protesters had gathered about an hour before Fields plowed his car into the crowd."
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 22 2019, @08:12PM
oh please as if the jury (of boot licking slaves) got to see that evidence...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 22 2019, @08:15PM
and richard spencer is an obvious disinformation agent and he's not "right" anything. look it up yourself, you SPLC-believing morons.