Source: The Guardian
Cases of white supremacist propaganda doubled in 2019, according to a recent report from Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism.
In 2019 there were 2,713 cases recorded of extremist propaganda, compared to 1,214 in the year prior.
These cases included flyers, posters and banners.
The material includes rhetoric against LGBT, minorities, Jewish people. This material has been found distributed on college campuses, but researchers note that white supremacist material is also found in more subtle ways.
“By emphasizing language ‘about empowerment, without some of the blatant racism and hatred…’ white supremacists are employing ‘a tactic to try to get eyes onto their ideas in a way that’s cheap, and that brings it to a new generation of people who are learning how to even make sense out of these messages,” reports The Guardian.
In other words, white supremacists are trying to make their messages resonate with people by justifying racism and discrimination as an act of patriotism.
The report notes that the propaganda was found most often in California, Texas, New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Ohio and Florida, among other states.
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