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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) by Runaway1956 on Friday February 22 2019, @07:20PM (6 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday February 22 2019, @07:20PM (#805254) Journal

    I may just do that this weekend - I have nothing planned. I already know that King was a Republican. He was smart enough to know that Democrats and the KKK were almost synonymous. I already know that King was anti-socialist, and/or anti-communist. Maybe I should dig into his teachings. Unlike some other people around here, I'm not too old to learn.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 22 2019, @07:58PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 22 2019, @07:58PM (#805281)

    Jesus fucking cHRiSt yer dumb!

    "Although the names stayed the same, the platforms of the two parties reversed each other in the mid-20th century, due in large part to white ‘Dixiecrats’ flight out of the Democratic Party and into the Republican Party after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964," she said."

    So you are correct sort-of, but if MLK was alive today he'd tell the GOP to go fuck itself. Do you even brain bro?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 22 2019, @10:59PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 22 2019, @10:59PM (#805360)

      white ‘Dixiecrats’ flight out of the Democratic Party and into the Republican Party after the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

      Then you should have no problem listing them all by name. I'll start:

      1. Strom Thurmond
      2. ...

      How much sense does it make that Dixiecrats would join the party with ~80% support for the civil rights act? The party that voted 100% on the 13th, 94% on the 14th and 100% on the 15th was such a lightning rod for Southern racist Dixiecrats that only one of them ever switched. Most dixiecrats like KKK "cyclops" and mentor to Hillary Clinton remained lifelong democrats.

    • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday February 23 2019, @02:43AM (1 child)

      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Saturday February 23 2019, @02:43AM (#805442) Journal

      Keep telling yourself that. The more you tell a lie, the truer it becomes.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 23 2019, @07:24AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 23 2019, @07:24AM (#805499)

        You're really making yourself look stupid.

  • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Friday February 22 2019, @09:59PM

    by aristarchus (2645) on Friday February 22 2019, @09:59PM (#805341) Journal

    I already know that King was a Republican.

    But, Runaway, you complete and total moran, we were talking about Martin Luther King, Jr. PhD, not Steve King [nytimes.com], Republican racist.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 22 2019, @10:35PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 22 2019, @10:35PM (#805353)