Surge in white supremacist propaganda in US, report finds
Pro-Trump supporters storm the U.S. Capitol following a rally with President Donald Trump on January 6, 2021 in Washington, DC. Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images. White supremacist propaganda reached alarming levels across the US in 2020, according to a new report from the Anti-Defamation League. There were 5,125 cases of racist, anti-Semitic, anti-LGBTQ and other hateful messages spread through physical flyers, stickers, banners and posters, according to Wednesday s report. That was nearly double the 2,724 instances reported in 2019. Online propaganda is much harder to quantify, and it is likely those cases reached into the millions, the anti-hate organisation said.
ADL Report: White Supremacist Propaganda Incidents Nearly Doubled In Past Year
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White Supremacist Propaganda Surged in 2020
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“They use the uncertainty and fear caused by crisis to win over new recruits to their ‘us vs. them’ narrative, painting the ‘other’ as the cause of their pain, grievances or loss,” Picciolini told the AP. The current uncertainty caused by the pandemic, job loss, a heated election, protest over extrajudicial police killings of Black Americans, and a national reckoning sparked by our country’s long tradition of racism has created a perfect storm in which to recruit Americans who are fearful of change and progress.
Propaganda, often distributed with the intention of garnering media and online attention, helps white supremacists normalize their messaging and bolster recruitment efforts, the ADL said in its report. Language used in the propaganda is frequently veiled with a patriotic slant, making it seem benign to an untrained eye.