White supremacist groups have stepped up their recruiting on college campuses over the past two years with a sharp increase in their presence and activism in the past year, a period that perfectly overlaps with the political presence and prominence of President Donald Trump, according to a new study released this week by the Anti-Defamation League.
Calling the spike in hate group behavior “alarming,” the ADL tallied a three-fold increase in propaganda efforts by a variety of hate groups and white nationalist organizations on hundreds of campuses nationwide. “White supremacists, particularly alt right groups, have been actively targeting U.S. college campuses since January 2016,” the report states. “The practice failed to get any real traction until the fall semester of 2016. Since then, propaganda efforts have increased dramatically.”
The ADL recorded 346 incidents of white supremacist materials — fliers, stickers, banners, posters — littering college and university campuses since September 1, 2016. “These campaigns targeted 216 college campuses, from Ivy League schools to local community colleges, in 44 states and the District of Columbia,” the report said.
Well with a card carrying white supremacist in the White House, of course the racists and alt-right folks are going to come crawling out of the woodwork.
Donald Trump is their guy, and he provides a kind of unspoken permission for the country to slide right back into the days of Jim Crow laws, rampant segregation, and of course the oppression of minorities.
The nightmare is far from over if Julian Zelizer's analysis is right.
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Bill Maher is right. Their beloved wall is already built in their heart. WTH are they so afraid of?
ReplyDelete"...WTH are they so afraid of?"
DeleteThey are afraid of the time (not too long away) when the white person is no longer the dominant race in the US. They are afraid of losing control. They are afraid life.
It is up to Educators and parents to bring this senseless nonsense to an end. Baiting race against race is a dead end. It is wrong. It is a small world and all schools must be the beacon of hope for a sound and healthy society and humanity. We as humans cannot allow the ignorance of a few to infect our children and society. End alt right and white hate groups today. Yes it is bad history and attitude. It cannot be removed from history but it can be explained.
ReplyDeleteIt is such a shame. America today was not built on racism and hate. It is a few hateful souls that continue. We are a melting pot of many. This land belongs to all. Respect it. Be thankful. Help spread the words for a future 4 Peace. Stop division.
ReplyDeleteSorry to disagree with you 6:17, but while your SENTIMENT is a nice one, slavery was legal in all 13 colonies long before the Declaration of Independence. The only major difference, was the race. Indentured servants were from everywhere.
DeleteAnd the African slaves were here before the Declaration as well. Further, slaves were only counted as 2/3 of a person in the Constitution.
The United States GREW into a non-slave mentality. Unfortunately, there are a lot of people who haven't shown an ability to grow and learn and are stupid enough to think hating anything not white will make themselves superior.
Humpty Trumpty is encouraging that attitude because a divided population is easier to control. And the repubes are helping him. The main difference, however, is that the repubes think only the rich should control the population as the masters.
Witness the new tax law.
For once, I actually almost agreed with one of your posts until:
Delete"The main difference, however, is that the repubes think only the rich should control the population as the masters."
The uber-rich, ultra-rich, very rich, and rich control everything, from top to bottom. It doesn't really matter what party is in power. As long as they please the bases with scraps.
I read a good book recently called "White Cargo". Slavery came in all colors and nationalities, even the native American and Spanish populations. Slavery is not just a black issue. The women did not vote. It is male dominance that enslaves us. One could say all of us are slaves to the 10% today. The power of the people can make um or break um 8:11
DeleteEarth to alt-right evangelicals/supremicists:
ReplyDeleteJesus was brown.
Nuff said.
And a jew.
DeleteRight after the election, I asked a couple of my white, upper-middle-class female friends with graduate degrees -- both Trump voters -- how they planned to repudiate his racism and the racist aspects of his base. Basically -- "You voted for the guy, so you have to own all of it, even the ugly parts. How you gonna do that and raise your kids to be decent human beings?"
ReplyDeleteThey were so outraged that I dared to ask the question that they both quit speaking to me for several months, after telling me that Trump voters are totally misunderstood and how dare I call them racists (which I hadn't done). That level of defensiveness was telling to me. If they felt good about voting for Trump and didn't have deep misgivings about the racism, they would have been able to have a civil conversation about it. And they both have enough privilege to be able to bury their deep misgivings in a cloud of indignation and storm off to their upper-middle-class white neighborhoods to nurse their wounds. The people who are actually harmed by Trumpism don't have that luxury.
Maybe they just think you are a crazy nutjob? Maybe they always have.
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ReplyDeleteWhite people have always been racist. Here in America they have just worked at keeping it low key until they took all our Native lands. They needed help from other immigrants to do that. When I was in grade school we use to sing, this land is your land, this land is my land, and that was a propaganda song so the land.
ReplyDeleteNow that we've passed that, they that song no longer applies and they don't want to share anymore.
It's typical human thuggery of taking lands, power, etc. The survival of the fittest shit that's been happening since the beginning of human time. And sadly, what ever doesn't align itself with human occupation of this world will not survive aka the polar bears and other species that are now threatened by the global warming process. But what's sad now, is that this new/old white movement situation now reemerging is whoever and whatever is not aligned with the white way of life will not be welcomed. It's New York gangs all over again, and Trump is Butcher Bill.
The constant whiny liberal new mantra- everyone is racist but them. Big fail. Keep it up please, cause it is kind if hilarious to watch, and will fail.
ReplyDeleteNot a manta. The truth. You are the one in denial. Must be a Trumpster. This is the typical put your head in the sand, and talk out of your ass.
DeleteYes yes 2:40. Please keep that up. Scream it from the building tops. Especially near the elections.
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