US hate groups have seen ideas enter mainstream in Trump era, report finds
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US hate groups have seen ideas enter mainstream in Trump era, report finds
Jason Wilson, The Guardian 21 hours ago
Southern Poverty Law Center report shows an all-time high in hate groups since they began counting, beating the previous record in 2011
Gavin McInnes, founder of the far-right group Proud Boys, in Berkeley, California on 27 April 2017. Photograph: Marcio José Sánchez/APA new report from the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) says that hate groups in the US have continued to surge in the Trump era, and that the president himself has helped to mainstream hate by “fueling fears of a white minority country”.
The Alabama-based SPLC – one of the most long-standing and widely-cited anti-hate organizations – counted 1,020 hate groups in the United States in 2018, up 7% from the previous year.
This represented an all-time high since the SPLC began counting hate groups, beating the previous record in 2011, when the far right’s angry reaction to the Obama presidency was peaking.
In a press conference, Heidi Beirich, the director of the SPLC’s Intelligence Project blamed in part the “words and imagery coming out of the Trump administration” which have been “heightening the fears” of demographic replacement.
The report points to a range of murders and violent attacks – like a mail-bombing spree that targeted Democrats and media organisations and a mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue – as evidence that the conspiracy-fueled far right is increasingly willing to commit extreme acts.
Another similar recent report from the Anti-Defamation League suggested that extremist murders in the United States in 2018 were carried out almost exclusively by the far right.
But the SPLC also points to the increasingly strident expression of far right ideas in conservative media, and from Republican politicians, as evidence that hate is being mainstreamed.
One example is Donald Trump’s apparent adoption of the cause of white South African farmers in 2018. The report also discusses how Fox News hosts such as Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham have seized on the idea that white people will be demographically replaced in the United States by a wave of immigrants. Both of these themes are regularly pushed by white nationalists.
Though the report surveys a wide range of hate groups – from the antigovernment “patriot” movement to antisemitic black nationalist groups – it drew particular attention to two developments in 2018.
The first is the explosive growth in white nationalist groups. While longstanding white supremacist movements like the Klu Klux Klan have continued to dwindle, newer styles of internet-savvy white organizations have grown explosively. The 148 groups of this type identified by the SPLC represent a 50% increase on 2017.
White nationalist groups like Identity Evropa have been prominently involved in a wave of flyer distribution, which has escaped its former confines on college campuses and into the “public domain”. The level of flying and related actions, like banner drops, has been “unprecedented” according to the SPLC.
The second area of extensive growth has been in the catch-all category of “general hate”. That growth is largely as a result of the growth of the “western chauvinist” group, the Proud Boys, who the SPLC says now have 44 chapters in 31 states.
It describes the Proud Boys’ attendance at frequently violent street rallies as “the most relentless campaign of rightwing street violence in recent memory”.
The Proud Boys have recently cemented their links with people in high levels of the Republican party. Last week, Proud Boys chairman Enrique Tarrio was given pride of place at a Trump rally in Miami. The month before, Tarrio was a prominent visitor to Roger Stone in the wake of his arrest by the FBI. Stone himself has been frequently photographed with Proud Boys, and the Proud Boys often flourish a video of stone apparently being initiated in some way into the group.
The SPLC’s description of the group in these terms comes in the face of a lawsuit launched by founder Gavin McInnes against the organization earlier this month. McInnes’s suit is one of a number launched by rightwing figures who object to the SPLC’s classification or monitoring of their activities.
Asked about the lawsuits pending against the SPLC by McInnes and the Center for Immigration Studies, Beirich said: “We stand by our hate group listings”.
Repeatedly, Trump himself is singled out by the SPLC report, and his Twitter account in particular is nominated for pushing “noxious anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim views”.
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A new report from the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) says that hate groups in the US have continued to surge in the Trump era, and that the president himself has helped to mainstream hate by “fueling fears of a white minority country”.
The Alabama-based SPLC – one of the most long-standing and widely-cited anti-hate organizations – counted 1,020 hate groups in the United States in 2018, up 7% from the previous year.
This represented an all-time high since the SPLC began counting hate groups, beating the previous record in 2011, when the far right’s angry reaction to the Obama presidency was peaking.
In a press conference, Heidi Beirich, the director of the SPLC’s Intelligence Project blamed in part the “words and imagery coming out of the Trump administration” which have been “heightening the fears” of demographic replacement.
The report points to a range of murders and violent attacks – like a mail-bombing spree that targeted Democrats and media organisations and a mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue – as evidence that the conspiracy-fueled far right is increasingly willing to commit extreme acts.
Another similar recent report from the Anti-Defamation League suggested that extremist murders in the United States in 2018 were carried out almost exclusively by the far right.
But the SPLC also points to the increasingly strident expression of far right ideas in conservative media, and from Republican politicians, as evidence that hate is being mainstreamed.
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today's left has been trying to demonize the right for the last 10yrs straight.
did not work under obama and will not work under trump either.
the splc has become nothing more than a leftwing mouthpiece... they get no respect anymore.
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Wow,
I am certain that Joe McCarthy did not invent dirty, no holds barred politics,
he just tried to take it to new depths.
He was eventually shut down and defeated, but not until hundreds had suffered and democracy itself was injured.
Then after many years of at least, after hours comity under Tip O'Neil, along came Newt Gingrich to make politics personal again, no trick too low if the ends justifies the means.
Now we have Roger Stone and Paul Manafort doing anything for their 30 pieces of silver,
but it's the left demonizing the right?
Well OK, if YOU say so............./s
It is exactly that. The left trying to marginalize and demonize the right. Now they use the msm and it’s so called fact checkers to do exactly that.
Perhaps the left is following Ephrasians 5:11?
If only you could convince the fact checkers to use only your "alternative facts", you wouldn't have those problems.
Sure they have. Try again.
The SPLC is actually worse than he described. They are actually evil.
EXACTLY! The SPLC broke the back of the KKK. The HORROR! /s
Proud Boys are definitely a right wing hate group that should be recognized as such. But why no mention of leftist groups like Antifa?
Because anti-fa is not a hate group
Antifa is a made up label so that right wing hate groups can point to the left as a comparative distraction.
Any illegal activity by left leaners is being pointed at and blamed on Antifa, trying to provide a group to compare to white supremacists.
In other words....herding cats
In other words, finding a herd of cats and calling them names.
LOL...kinda
You know how they say certain groups are like herding cats because there's no real direction or leadership
BS deflection!
Stating a fact isn't a deflection Ed.
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Where did that block quote come from?
The topic of the seed is violent extremism. Try to keep up.
They get plenty of respect, just not from you and yours.
BTFW, what say you about the ADL? Their report is linked in the seed and is very damning. Care to comment on that report?
The Proud Boys are the Brown Shirts of the White Nationalists
They are crawling out of the wood work due to the asshole in the White House.
It's become fashionable to be a white supremacist again
That's what the deep state MSM wants you to believe.
So the main stream media is part of the deep state? Really?
What to believe? Do I go with the never been seen, never been quantified fantasy "Deep State"? Or do I believe my lyin' eyes that watched the Nazi's, KKK and white supremacists march around carrying tiki torches, waving swastikas and confederate flags, wearing MAGA hats and chanting "Jews will not replace us!". Do I believe the tens of thousands of photo evidence of white supremacists in America today that just takes a quick Google images search? When I type in "Deep State" in images all I get are hundreds of fantasy posters done up by conspiracy theorists. So yeah, I think I'll keep believing in reality even though its filled with a bunch of fucking fascist Nazis and white nationalists.
No, it's the truth. There is no deep state, that's tinfoil hat talk.
Some prefer the 'Deep State' of 'Denial', where they can immerse themselves in whichever whatever faux fax can get them by, and help them relax.
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i do however, believe that there could be such a thing as a deep state , though not one as stated, by the 'deep thinkers' , around these parts
They look more like Hershey's kisses.
i see, that in keeping on your seeded articles theme,
White Chocolate Hershey's Kisses were used to Foil the plans of those attempting reception via rabid ears of non-ferrous heavy metals, rocking the boat loads of ignorance, rocking these seeds, planted.
How do you know? Oh wait, that's an opinion with no factual content.
You bet it is and so are ALL of their fact checkers and keepers. The SPLC targets as hate all groups who resist the deep state.
That is the literal description of the seeded article.
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oh, please. That guy has no credibility at all
He's not credible at all....there is no deep state, only dimwits who believe it.
Basically to Snowden, anyone above him in seniority was the "Deep State".
"I have a boss and he tells me what to do! Fucking Deep State!"...
Did the 'deep state MSM' fabricate the data in the ADL report too Dean?
I don't appreciate you going off topic on my seed.
It’s allied with it for sure. The msm is more vile than the deep state because it perpetuates the deep state.
Of course he does.
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WOW, you should contact 21st Century Fox and complain. Maybe Rupert Murdoc will tell Hannity to knock it off.
In Paris, do they have Hershey's French kisses?
They are tongue shaped
LOL!
Good one.
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So the main stream media is part of the deep state?
That is news! Next thing you know, the Deep State will be delivering pizza.
They crawled out of the turd in chief's asshole.
During the 2016 election Trump retweeted white supremacists numerous times. His spokesmen said he did it by accident.
His political stance and white supremacist aspirations are peas in a pod.
n , we've all heard of Trump's fondness for p's
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it is so obvious, yet the deniers are out and about, as usual.
Trumpp, and the far right, have been using the fears of the vast fastly shrinking majority , to
fear any an all a minority.
Insecurities are working, and it is a sad reflection on and about, our once great country.
It’s true. The SPLC a hate group that makes millions scamming gullible liberals, gets way too much public exposure,
That is not true but it is what we've come to expect from the pro-hate crowd.
The SPLC identifies, tracks, monitors and certifies verified legit hate groups...
The SPLC is a terrorist inspiring hate group that cons it’s true believers out of their money and targets its ideological opposition with hate. There is nothing good about the SPLC. They are a fund raising scam to personally enrich its corrupt founder and his friends.
Hey, they're suing Trump on multiple fronts. Where do I donate...
Then address the ADL report Sean. Or do you consider that Anti-Defamation League a hate group too?
Breitbart is a great organization and I’m proud to be openly allied with it and all it stands for here. A lifetime membership subscription would be a high honor. Three cheers for Breitbart!
Breitfart
Breitbart is a great organization
Apparently your God didn’t agree, judging by how he snuffed out the founder. Or was that just another deep state hit job? Mysterious ways ...
If there was only a Darwin Award for fictional news sources such as Breitbart....
The Mercer family creates a protective environment and keeps Breitbart and Bannon [he still lives in their headquarters] afloat and pumping out propaganda.
Another bunch empowered by horrid Citizens United decision to cement the American Oligarchs......
It must have been the Clintons!
Hate Groups? Mainstream Media? Limbaugh, Levin make $60+ million a year. Hannity, $43 million. Something is making those investments.
Deep State is real and it is serious. Spawned in Putin's Russia and dropped here. Latest Product: Coast Guard Lt. Christopher P. Hassom.
So to recap, NONE of the conservatives here have the intestinal fortitude to address the FACTS as documented in the reports talked about in the seed. I note that while they jump on one of the sources, the SPLC [their favorite whipping boy] they avoid addressing the linked ADL report, which BTFW, bolsters the findings by the SPLC.
The claims are all about 'deep state' conspiracies, SPLC 'terrorism' and 'demonizing of the right' without a WORD about the ACTUAL data in the reports.
The shinny object deflection on the 'right' continues to be the go to reaction to the REAL TIME documentation of the effects of RW extremism in the US.
I hope that at least the rest of us will READ the reports and use the data therein to help us to counter those effects. We ignore the issue at our own peril.
Hum.....A Southern Poverty Law Center Report says it?
Question: Does the fact that agencies reporting hate crimes for the first time create the false impression that there is an increase in such crimes?
"The FBI notes, however, the number of law enforcement agencies reporting the crimes also increased, with about 1,000 additional agencies contributing data.
Yes and the report has NOTHING to do with reporting 'hate crimes'.
Thanks for playing.
Well, it kinda does, seeing the SPLC receives their data from law enforcement agencies.
More agencies reporting, probably more crimes reported.
I wonder how many of them were hoaxes that did not get national attention, unlike the Smollett thing and these...
These are nowhere near the real number of them.
' The report points to a range of murders and violent attacks"
It's right in the article. BTW, I think we have discussed the SPLC before. Marc Thiessen wrote a brilliant Column on them:
"The SPLC is a once-storied organization that did important work filing civil rights lawsuits against the Ku Klux Klan in the 1970s. But it has become a caricature of itself, labeling virtually anyone who does not fall in line with its left-wing ideology an “extremist” or “hate group.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-southern-poverty-law-center-has-lost-all-credibility/2018/06/21/22ab7d60-756d-11e8-9780-b1dd6a09b549_story.html?utm_term=.0967d5868a8b
They have no credibility and as far as I'm concerned THEY ARE A HATE GROUP!
As always, It's been a pleasure
So that's 2 of you that don't know the difference between the terms 'hate crime' and 'hate group'.
Which report Vic.
Marc Thiessen, the 'brilliant' writer that is a torture apologist? That guy is a hack.
The one we are discussing.
Marc Thiessen, the 'brilliant' writer that is a torture apologist?
torture? Are you referring to what Allen Dulles would call enhanced interrogation?
Since you seem incapable of making yourself clear, I'll just presume that you are talking about the report YOU linked.
That report is about hate crimes, NOT hate groups.
Many hate CRIMES are perpetrated by individuals unaffiliated with a hate GROUP. Think Dylan Roof.
I'm referring to torture as defined by the Geneva convention to which the US is a signatory and for which we have supported the execution of people for perpetrating.
Assume away.....I used the exact text from THIS article.
I'm referring to torture as defined by the Geneva convention
Can you be specific?
You're wasting my time as usual Vic.
Surely the Geneva Convention spells out what is torture and what isn't. Is "waterboarding" specifically mentioned?
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Um, apparently you are the one that does not know the difference between the two, being your 9.1 specifically stated "hate crimes", and that is what I responded to.
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Yes, it specifically stated 'hate crimes' in THIS context:
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