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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: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 23 2019, @01:11AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 23 2019, @01:11AM (#805417)

    Not but a couple.. because flamebait..

    Saying women "ask for it" by wearing sexy clothes

    When a woman wears pasties, goes out, gets drunk, tells her friends to fuck off, goes out with a guy she doesn't know, there's nothing that anyone can do for that woman. You seem to not know the definition of the phrase, "Asking for it".

    Asking for it is when someone is performing an action with a consequent known to any reasonable person, and the vast majority of unreasonable people.

    So, examples of "asking for it" would be:

    - Talking back to your parents, knowing you'll be spanked
    - Applying to join a gang, and getting beat up for initiation
    - Paying for something online by wire transfer, and not receiving the item
    - Getting beligerently drunk with a group of people you don't know, passing out, and having your wallet stolen
    - Getting beligerently drunk as a female with a gang who is "so much fun", and getting a train run on you

    These things are known even to _dumb_ people. You can't fix stupid. Further, there is _NOTHING_ that can be done to help these people short of sending a police escort with them at all times, but of course that wouldn't be accepted.

    Going out in a sexy dress? Hey cool. Flagging down some random guy on a bike in a sexy dress, smiling and licking your lips, and asking him if he knows where you can get some coke? (This has actually happened to me) -- you're just asking to be taken to some random place and use you for whatever the hell anyone wants -- sold to someone else, robbed, sexual assaulted, or perhaps to find out what flesh feels like when it's filleted. We know the absolute conclusion of this behavior, and it is these times when we say a person is "asking for it". When there is nothing that any person can do to help the person, and when the person did something so stupid anyone would laugh at them knowing their inevitable misfortune -- like strapping gutted fish to you and diving with sharks without a cage.

    "Locker room" talk.

    If you had any idea what males go through growing up. That whole "Thicken skin" thing? It's actually _important_, lest you be offended by Free Speech, and try to restrict others' rights because you don't have a thick enough skin to survive in _any_ society.

    "Just a joke" racism

    Don't like it? Don't be friends with the person. I know, I know, you want to throw away the first ten amendments. Hey, lets get rid of the 14th amendment too, while we're at it!

    disregarding someone's personal story with "nah they weren't actually being racist maybe it was more innocent."

    Oh My Gawd you disrespected me, POLICE!!! ARREST THAT MAN!! because of course only _males_ are capable of disrespect.

    That last one I was guilty of recently, I downplayed an old white lady..

    Wow.. so you're a male. I do hope you spent a mandatory term in prison. Congratulations, you're a criminal. Or, you would be, if you actually had your way with the legal system in this country. (Or are you a member of the One True Hate Group, excepted from such trials?)

    Consider how women are documented as acting, what is expected of people who want to do something technical, acting on technical grounds. Consider the offense that men are commiting by _existing_.
    http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=6918 [ibiblio.org]

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 23 2019, @05:51AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 23 2019, @05:51AM (#805476)

    Flagging down some random guy on a bike in a sexy dress, smiling and licking your lips, and asking him if he knows where you can get some coke?

    That does demonstrate a flagrant lack of common sense... It is available from practically any convenience store or grocery store soda aisle. Come on!

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 23 2019, @07:22AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 23 2019, @07:22AM (#805498)

    Holy crazy fuckwit Batman!

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 23 2019, @11:39AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 23 2019, @11:39AM (#805538)

    I would say this post is just asking for it. Look at the language it is using! No wonder multiple random Soylentil ACs wanted to dry hump it into oblivion! Poor AC. Probably a slut, though. Who else would post that way? Probably better that the post got fucked earlier than later, for great justice.