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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: 2, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Friday February 22 2019, @05:52PM (3 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday February 22 2019, @05:52PM (#805185) Journal

    No, I believe in the power of negative reinforcement as well. Your left leaning lamestream media tells you all kinds of negative crap, and some of you eat it up.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 22 2019, @06:18PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 22 2019, @06:18PM (#805200)

    Ah yes, Gaslight Obstruct Project!

    That was supposed to be a humorous interpretation of the acronym not a how-to guide.

  • (Score: 2) by Joe Desertrat on Saturday February 23 2019, @12:02AM (1 child)

    by Joe Desertrat (2454) on Saturday February 23 2019, @12:02AM (#805390)

    No, I believe in the power of negative reinforcement as well. Your left leaning lamestream media tells you all kinds of negative crap, and some of you eat it up.

    This is your argument? Seriously? Maybe you should spend some time comparing what comes from "left leaning lamestream media" and the right leaning news sources we have and you apparently believe. Any time I have been forced to listen to Fox News and the like I have heard an unending stream of BS aimed at provoking outrage and fear among a population that apparently wants to be outraged and afraid for little real reason. And BS is a rather polite term for what they spew. The level of "facts" and "truth" that come from Fox News is well below any other mainstream outlet, and there are not any other popular right wing sources doing any better.

    • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday February 23 2019, @02:36AM

      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Saturday February 23 2019, @02:36AM (#805439) Journal

      That's why you don't listen to Fox any more than you listen to lamestream. Get your news from a dozen sources or more outside of the US. The BBC has always been reliably unreliable. That is, they have their spin, but they are consistent.