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posted by martyb on Friday February 22 2019, @05:18AM   Printer-friendly
from the keep-your-friends-close-and-your-enemies-closer? dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by deimtee on Friday February 22 2019, @11:30AM (8 children)

    by deimtee (3272) on Friday February 22 2019, @11:30AM (#804980) Journal

    The "privileged caricature" is a Harvard-educated white male in an expensive suit who can get a high-paying job from one of his family's friends with a handshake on the golf course.

    So simply because he is a "cis white male" you project that image on some poor redneck who is struggling to keep his trailer, claim he is privileged, and then wonder why he is pissed off and threatened.

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  • (Score: 2, Disagree) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 22 2019, @02:39PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 22 2019, @02:39PM (#805040)

    I don't know of anyone who does that. Seems like a lack of critical thinking and taking generalizations too personally.

    • (Score: 4, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Friday February 22 2019, @08:00PM

      by DeathMonkey (1380) on Friday February 22 2019, @08:00PM (#805284) Journal

      It's impressive how these folks can act like victims in a thread about how they keep murdering people and committing terrorism.

      I'd have a bit more sympathy if they hadn't spent the last 20 years blaming all Muslims for 9/11.

  • (Score: 2, Disagree) by julian on Friday February 22 2019, @08:14PM (5 children)

    by julian (6003) Subscriber Badge on Friday February 22 2019, @08:14PM (#805299)

    you project that image on some poor redneck who is struggling to keep his trailer, claim he is privileged, and then wonder why he is pissed off and threatened.

    He is privileged because he is white and male. That's not incorrect. It's just that his economic class is the far bigger influence on his well being. The negative effects of his poverty absolutely swamp any white or male privilege.

    So of course he votes Democrat, the only party offering him real hope and actual public policy that will improve his life. Right? He wouldn't do something crazy like vote for the other party that will further impoverish him just so he can retain his racial and gender pride. No one would be that stupid, petty, and spiteful.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 22 2019, @10:06PM (4 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 22 2019, @10:06PM (#805344)

      You mean you expect him to vote for the party that tells him that he should move to California and learn to program?

      Interesting..

      I would suggest he is more likely to vote for the party that tells him they want to bring back basic manufacturing jobs to america - you know - the things HE does.
      He will also probably vote for the party that protects his right to own a gun (because that makes him feel strong), and does constantly tell him that he be bad for being white and male.

      Why the fuck would he vote for the Dems?

      • (Score: 4, Informative) by Joe Desertrat on Friday February 22 2019, @11:32PM

        by Joe Desertrat (2454) on Friday February 22 2019, @11:32PM (#805379)

        I would suggest he is more likely to vote for the party that tells him they want to bring back basic manufacturing jobs to america - you know - the things HE does.

        Ha ha ha ha ha ha! Sure they TELL him that. They don't do it though, do they? The only way those jobs will come back in any quantity that matters is if the working conditions, including relative pay, fall to the standards of the places the jobs were exported to in the first place. The manufacturing may come back without that, but most of the blue collar jobs will be lost to automation.And it's the party he votes for that not only makes sure that is the way it happens (they both share guilt in this), but they also strive to eliminate the social safety nets that could buffer the loss of jobs. Then as things get worse the party he votes for continually tell him it is the fault of even poorer people. He fails to notice that they are not getting the wealth he no longer shares in, and he supports those that are now gaining that wealth. But oh, they get to have guns, a fairly useless benefit. Feeling safe from imaginary fears is of little real value.

        Things have been steadily getting worse in the US for the middle and lower classes since the "Reagan Revolution", and will only continue to do so as long as long as Republican thoughts and ideals remain in practice.

      • (Score: 5, Informative) by julian on Friday February 22 2019, @11:44PM (2 children)

        by julian (6003) Subscriber Badge on Friday February 22 2019, @11:44PM (#805385)

        You mean you expect him to vote for the party that tells him that he should move to California and learn to program?

        Democrats aren't saying this. This is literally a right wing troll meme on Twitter dot com directed at out of work journalists.

        I would suggest he is more likely to vote for the party that tells him they want to bring back basic manufacturing jobs to america

        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.

        He will also probably vote for the party that protects his right to own a gun (because that makes him feel strong)

        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.

        and does constantly tell him that he be bad for being white and male.

        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

          by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 23 2019, @06:16AM (#805485)

          You mean you expect him to vote for the party that tells him that he should move to California and learn to program?

          Democrats aren't saying this. This is literally a right wing troll meme on Twitter dot com directed at out of work journalists.

          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

          by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 24 2019, @11:01AM (#805897)

          Oh, where exactly is China if it's not on Earth?