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lostnfound

(16,169 posts)
Sun May 12, 2019, 09:15 PM May 2019

"Breaking Hate" just started on MSNBC. Recommend watching, it's coming

It’s not just Trump that’s causing the increase in neonazi memberships.
The internet is serving as an intense organizer.
We need to understand this process,
Christian Picciolini is doing a great service with this program.

In the previews, he was discussing how some young men go “cult-shopping”— they move from Neo-Nazi, to ISIS, and training with foreign extremist organizations. One was headed to the Ukraine, by the way.

And he talks about how he personally had to be approached on the street in an alley, but now, young me. Are self-radicalizing on the Internet, and identifying those that are willing to join the groups is far easier in chat rooms than it was in the real world before the internet.

I will not be surprised if the right wing as well as foreign enemies use these groups now and in the future to create major discord and violence in the U.S.

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