SPLC Reports 50% Surge In White Supremacist Hate Groups, 33% Rise In Anti-LGBTQ Hate Organizations

Again the haters spewed their bigotry non-stop for years, over shooting any other voice, we have to raise our voice just as loud.  We were stomping this shit out until the cult of tRump maga made being a low intellect gang thug the in thing.  This is driven by those who insist on controlling the lives of others, to make others live as the haters are comfortable with.     Hugs.  Scottie

 

The Florida Phoenix reports:

Emboldened by the mainstreaming of hard-right politics ahead of a presidential election cycle, white nationalist and anti-LGBTQ+ groups increased to record levels in the United States last year, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center’s latest annual report on hate and extremism. The SPLC, which has published the annual report since 1990, documented 835 active anti-government groups, up 133 from 2022’s count, and 595 hate groups, an increase of 72 over the previous year’s figure.

Accounting for a large portion of the increase was a 50% surge in white supremacy hate groups in 2023, the highest jump ever recorded by the SPLC, growing to 165 over 109 in 2022. White power and neo-Nazi rallies across the U.S. totaled 143 in 2023, down from 191 in 2022. SPLC saw a 33% rise in anti-LGBTQ+ organizations over last year, bringing the total to 86. The group said the growth was largely attributable to the anti-trans movement on the far-right.

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Trump emboldened them. These folks were always racist and sexist but they knew to disguise it. Now they are proud of it. It’s no surprise that they want to belong to groups of like-minded groups. The Klan used to hide. Now some similar groups wear masks but many do not. They don’t hide their identities because they don’t feel they need to. We have to prove them wrong.

I think 6 members of SCOTUS have even more to do with it.

Fear of the “other” has animated Republican politics since forever. If it isn’t LGBT people, it’s immigrants. In his weekly screed, Andrew Sullivan blames Biden for “losing” the election to Trump over immigration, all without ever mentioning the fact that Republicans, on marching orders from Trump, squashed bipartisan legislation to secure the southern border. Funny how that rather important element is simply ignored. Block Javascript to read:

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The hubby and I got a couple of guns (locked away for safekeeping) but if push comes to shove, we’re not going down quietly.
Hate to have to think that way now.

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