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struggle4progress

(118,349 posts) Wed Feb 17, 2016, 04:53 PM Feb 2016

Active hate groups in the US in 2015 (SPLC)

This list of 892 active hate groups, up from the 784 groups listed a year before, is based on information gathered by the Intelligence Project from hate group publications, citizen reports, law enforcement agencies, field sources, web postings, and news reports.

Only organizations known to be active in 2015, whether that activity included marches, rallies, speeches, meetings, leafleting, publishing literature or criminal acts, among other activities, were counted in the listing. Entities that appear to exist only in cyberspace are not included because they are likely to be individual Web publishers who likely to falsely portray themselves as powerful, organized froups. This listing contains all known chapters of hate organizations ...

Groups are categorized as Ku Klux Klan, White Nationalist, Racist Skinhead, Christian Identity, Neo-Confederate, Black Separatist, and General Hate. Because skinheads are migratory and often not affiliated with groups, this listing understates their numbers. Christian Identity describes a religion that is fundamentally racist and anti-Semitic. Black Separatist groups are organizations whose ideologies include tenets of racially based hatred. Neo-Confederate groups seek to revive many of the racist principles of the antebellum South. White Nationalist groups espouse white supremacy or white separatism but generally avoid anti-Semitism. General Hate groups espouse various ideologies of hatred and include the sub-categories of Anti-LGBT groups, Anti-Immigrant groups, Anti-Muslim groups, Holocaust Denial groups, Racist Music labels, Radical Traditionalist Catholic groups (which reject core Catholic teachings and espouse anti-Semitism) and Other (a variety of groups endorsing a hodge-podge of hate doctrines) ...

https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2016/active-hate-groups-united-states-2015

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Active hate groups in the US in 2015 (SPLC) (Original Post) struggle4progress Feb 2016 OP

D-E-S-P-I-C-A-B-L-E Faux pas Feb 2016 #1

Add to that list matt819 Feb 2016 #2

Money easy way to get money from that GOP base vinny9698 Feb 2016 #3

I got a good guffaw from this statement... Behind the Aegis Feb 2016 #4

thank-you so much mgmaggiemg Feb 2016 #5

Understand that it is a long term policy of the Koch organizations to materially support Ford_Prefect Feb 2016 #6

Faux pas

(14,690 posts)

1. D-E-S-P-I-C-A-B-L-E

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Wed Feb 17, 2016, 05:26 PM

Feb 2016

disgusting and seriously sad.

matt819

(10,749 posts)

2. Add to that list

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Wed Feb 17, 2016, 05:32 PM

Feb 2016

I gotta say, looking at news reports of Trump rallies, his campaign is just another hate group.

vinny9698

(1,016 posts)

3. Money easy way to get money from that GOP base

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Wed Feb 17, 2016, 06:04 PM

Feb 2016

Start a hate group, then start fundraising on your website. College degree is actually a negative, Hannity and Rush come to mind. And you just wait for that money to come in.

Behind the Aegis

(53,988 posts)

4. I got a good guffaw from this statement...

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Wed Feb 17, 2016, 06:09 PM

Feb 2016

"White Nationalist groups espouse white supremacy or white separatism but generally avoid anti-Semitism."

Not the WN sites I read! They are chocked full of hardcore anti-Semitism, mainly because they don't count Jews as "white." I suspect if Sanders if elected president, we will see the same reaction of an increase in hate groups as we did when Obama was elected.

mgmaggiemg

(869 posts)

5. thank-you so much

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Wed Feb 17, 2016, 06:13 PM

Feb 2016

for posting this so I know what link to send people to for stats....it's so hard to convince people how prevalent hate groups are even tho they troll constantly online....Cheers, Maggie

Ford_Prefect

(7,921 posts)

6. Understand that it is a long term policy of the Koch organizations to materially support

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Wed Feb 17, 2016, 11:34 PM

Feb 2016

these kinds of groups where they are aligned against Koch enemies like the BLM, Department of Forestry, and DOJ. It is done through 3rd party assistance and typical Dark Money operations to encourage these outfits. The Neo-Conservatives do the same thing and use it as a tactical move to attack liberal ideas and organizations much as the Brownshirts of the Weimar Republic.

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