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Tuesday, March 14th, 2023

“Coordinated at a higher level”: White supremacist propaganda soared to all-time high last year

Author:     AREEBA SHAH
Source:     Salon
Publication Date:     MARCH 13, 2023 | 2:52PM (EDT)
 Link: “Coordinated at a higher level”: White supremacist propaganda soared to all-time high last year
Stephan:  

MAGAt world has awakened a level of hate, antisemitism, and racism in the United States greater than anything I have ever seen. I don't remember anything this bad even at the height of the civil rights conflict in the 1950s and 60s. That epoch was mostly in the Southern states and the antisemitic aspect was not a major part of it. This is nationwide,  and more randomly violent whereas in the civil rights conflict it was mostly aimed at Black Americans. The one constant is that the violence in both epochs was, and is, being perpetrated by ultra-conservative White men consumed by hate and resentment. I increasingly see this as a sickness made all the more violent because of a second cultural sickness, America's obsessive gun psychosis.

Members of the right-wing group Patriot Front march with anti-abortion activists during the annual March for Life on Jan. 21, 2022 in Washington, DC.  Credit: Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times / Getty 

The Anti-Defamation League recorded the highest number of white supremacist propaganda incidents in 2022, according to a new report released last week. 

The number of incidents increased by 38% from the previous year, with a total of 6,751 cases reported last year, compared to 4,876 in 2021, ADL’s Center on Extremism found. 

Similarly, the number of groups involved in incidents last year also increased, rising from 38 different groups to 50, said Carla Hill, Director of Investigative Research with ADL Center on Extremism.

At least three networks, including Patriot Front, Goyim Defense League (GDL) and White Lives Matter (WLM) were responsible for 93% of the activity, she added. 

The groups use different tools to spread propaganda, varying from graffiti, posters, stickers, and banners to even yard signs and laser projections. The propaganda is then promoted online after members share messages on social media with the purpose […]

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