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Hate groups are built around hate and violence, their goal is to spread it anywhere they can. They also believe that white Catholics are the superior race and that every other is completely inferior to them. The KKK for example is made up of white Catholics who in the 1920's would cause terror, rally, and lynch anyone who wasn't like them. They have died down a bit but they still exist today and the only way to stop them is to remove their right to spread their hate and violence towards other ethnicity.

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During a protest a man drove his car through the crowd and killed a woman, Heather Heyer. The driver (Alex James Fields) has sense then been placed in jail. Following this Jason Kessier shared a tweet on twitter saying "Heather Heyer was a fat, disgusting communist. Communists have killed 94 million . Looks like its payback time". He later took it down and apologized for what he said and that it was completely inappropriate. This took place in a  Charlottesville in 2017

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How far to the First Amendment's protections go when it comes to hate speech?

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On Friday night, Jason Kessler, the organizer of the Charlottesville rally, tweeted out a disgusting hit on Heather Heyer, the 32-year old woman killed when Alex James Fields rammed his car into a crowd of counter-protesters.

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Back again in Charolottesville in 2017 the KKK had a rally and were met with a 50 supporters and over 1,000 counter protesters. The KKK was trying to stop the removal of a confederate statue of Robert E. Lee because it was part of their heritage. One of the members stated "If they don't like our history then we kindly ask them to leave america". The KKK was able to continue their rally and the protesters couldn't do anything about it. There were 23 arrests made but they are unclear of who was arrested.

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As many Americans are aware, a great deal of what most would call hate speech is protected by the First Amendment. The Nazis in Skokie are the classic case. In 1977, the National Socialist Party of America proposed to march in this predominantly Jewish community, home to many Holocaust survivors. The ACLU defended their right to wear Nazi uniforms and display swastikas, and courts upheld that right. The Nazis won (though they ultimately decided to march elsewhere).

Until now, I would have said there is no better illustration that the United States has the strongest speech protections in the world. But my new go-to illustration is Charlottesville, summer of 2017. I teach at the University of Virginia School of Law in Charlottesville, Virginia. Since the spring, when our city council voted to remove a prominent monument to Robert E. Lee and to rename parks containing the Lee statue and a monument to his fellow Confederate general Stonewall Jackson, Charlottesville has been the site of targeted demonstrations by neo-Nazis, white nationalists and, this past Saturday, the Ku Klux Klan.

I used to talk about freedom and its costs in terms of Skokie. This fall, when the students return, I will be talking about home.

As in Skokie, the demonstrations in Charlottesville have proved the strength of the First Amendment but also shown its steep cost. The Nazis chose Skokie precisely because its residents would find their message deeply offensive. Hate groups have targeted Charlottesville precisely because it voted to take down the monument, and because it is a community actively grappling with a thorny Confederate and Jim Crow past.

Not only that, but the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis and white nationalists all reject a basic tenet of the American system: that all people are created equal. So why does our Constitution protect them?

Not because they deserve respect. In popular culture, people sometimes act as though "exercising my First Amendment rights" should earn them a pat on the back and, if not agreement, at least grudging respect. Nothing about the First Amendment requires that. We permit hate speech, but we need not respect it.

We also need not worry that we're wrong in our lack of respect. Judge Learned Hand, quoting Oliver Cromwell, said that every courthouse and public building should have inscribed above its entrance, "Consider that ye may be wrong." But there are certain facts that do not require hedging, and the fundamental equality of all people is one of them.

Free speech is also not, as some judges have argued, a safety valve that prevents bad actions. Racist and anti-Semitic speech is not the hallmark of an otherwise enlightened society. And anyone who thinks speech is a harmless safety valve has not pictured the combination of armed Klansmen, hundreds of angry counter-protestors, and a police force tasked with keeping order. Whatever this is about, it isn't safety.

The law offers two reasons to protect free speech, even in the face of social disgust or unrest. First, democracy may require it. After much wrestling, the courts concluded, in cases about socialists and communists, that a person does not have to agree with American values in order to get the protection of the First Amendment. The Constitution protects even those who would try to destroy it, up to the point of a clear and present danger. Otherwise, what we have are not legitimate democratic outcomes but manufactured consensus. On this view, democracy does not prevail if the Klan is censored. Democracy prevails if the Klan speaks and loses on the merits.

Second, the alternative is letting the government choose who can speak and who cannot. Given the government's track record -- not just the McCarthy era and the Red Scare but censorship of abolitionist pamphlets before the Civil War and Southern states' attempts to shut down press coverage of the civil rights movement -- maybe it is not outlandish to think it is better to let the Klan speak than to let the government decide who should.

But these reasons have their costs, and those costs are not borne equally. They fall disproportionately on African-American, Jewish, Muslim, and other minority members of the community. They are the ones who absorb these very public, very ugly assertions that they are worth less than other Americans.

They are the ones who get the message that these monuments were erected to be -- and still are -- symbols of white supremacy. When the KKK and neo-Nazis show up to defend "history" in a place with a legacy, like Charlottesville's, for displacing its black residents, that message could not be clearer.

They are the ones who have to live with not only the message of these demonstrations but also the unpredictability of where all this is going. In the short term, the city is preparing for another rally of white nationalists on August 12. In the long term, the fact is that free speech is not free, and we do not split the check evenly.

One thing we must all do is be conscious of these costs. Another is to recognize that, in permitting all viewpoints, the First Amendment puts the responsibility on us to choose what to espouse and what to reject. All views are not equally good. It may be vital to the legitimacy of our system that we have the freedom to choose. It is vital to its survival that we choose wisely.

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how to defend the constitution when the kkk comes to town (opinion)  - cnn

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How to defend the Constitution when the KKK comes to town

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As many Americans are aware, a great deal of what most would call hate speech is protected by the First Amendment. The Nazis in Skokie are the classic case. In 1977, the National Socialist Party of America proposed to march in this predominantly Jewish community, home to many Holocaust survivors.

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This book tells of the history of Americas bigotry and racism throughout our countries lifetime. How they formed, what they did, how they changed America and how they are influencing our country today.

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hate groups in america: a record of bigotry and violence

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Hate Groups in America: A Record of Bigotry and Violence

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Hate Groups in America: A Record of Bigotry and Violence on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Book by Schwartz, Alan M. (et.al.)

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In this book the author tells of how America is one of the only countries that don't have laws against hate groups. Canada, Germany, Britain, Denmark, and New Zealand have all signed laws that make it so hate groups or anyone aren't able spread hate against homosexuals, ethnicities, races or different sexes.

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Every liberal democracy has laws or codes against hate speech, except the United States. For constitutionalists, regulation of hate speech violates the First Amendment and damages a free society. Against this absolutist view, the author argues that hate speech should be regulated as part of our commitment to human dignity and to inclusion and respect for members of vulnerable minorities.

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The meme below is a lighter take on the Charolottesville protest. it shows a bunch of whit males holding tikki torches. The mob is meant to be representing the white supremacists and the meaning behind the meme is that the people who are a part of the white supremacist group were babied though life.

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This article is telling you how the people behind the website are working on how they are fighting against hate groups. They are protesting KKK and Neo Nazi rallies to try and end them but it has barely scratched the surface of the end of white supremacy.

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The Intelligence Project at the SPLC works to expose, prevent, counter and remedy hate and extremism in the U.S. today. The SPLC is the premier U.S. organization monitoring the activities of domestic hate groups and antigovernment hard right extremists - including the Ku Klux Klan, white nationalists, the neo-Nazi movement, antigovernment militias, anti-LGBTQ groups, antisemitic movement, anti-Muslim groups and others.

We track more than 1,300 hard right extremist groups operating across the country. We publish investigative reports and offer expert analysis to lawmakers, the media and public. To push white supremacy out of the mainstream and remedy harms in communities, we spot warning signs and intervene proactively by supporting grassroots partners and building community resilience to extremism.

Our work fighting hate and extremism began in the early 1980s, amid a resurgence of Klan violence that began several years after the end of the civil rights movement. Each year since 1990, we have released an annual report and census of U.S. hate and antigovernment groups. In the mid-1990s, we also began documenting the number of radical,  antigovernment militias  movement organizations.

Over the years, we've crippled or destroyed some of the country's most notorious hate groups - including the United Klans of America, the Aryan Nations and the White Aryan Resistance - by suing them for murders and other violent acts committed by their members or by exposing their activities. We continue to hold hate groups and extremist individuals accountable using a varied set of tools and enhanced technological capacity for data analysis, including a DataLab to apply measurement techniques for studying networks of toxicity, hate speech, racism and extremism in online social spaces.

Hate Map: There are 1,225 hate and antigovernment extremist groups currently operating in the U.S.

Extremist Files: A database on prominent extremist groups and individuals

Jan 6: The Long Path to Insurrection: The Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the United States Capitol was part of a century-old effort by extremists, the Southern Poverty Law Center takes a comprehensive look.

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We monitor hate groups and other extremists throughout the United States and expose their activities to the public, the media and law enforcement.

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This is an informational website telling on how social media websites are not helping in the war against white supremacy. For a while social media has ben trying to put an end to racial things being posted, "Responding to the violence in Charlottesville, Mark Zuckerberg solemnly reflected that there is “no place for hate in our community.” Snapchat announced that hate speech “will never be tolerated” on its platform. YouTube reassured us that helpful tools are on the way. Tech companies fled Trump’s dual business councils to protest his claim that some white supremacists are “very fine people.” (Tech is not winning the battle against white supremacy), it may stop the spread of it on social media but it has barely put a dent in what is still left within the world.

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If you were just paying attention to press releases this week it'd be easy to believe that tech companies are winning the war on hate. Responding to the violence in Charlottesville, Mark Zuckerberg solemnly reflected that there is "no place for hate in our community." Snapchat announced that hate speech "will never be tolerated" on its platform. YouTube reassured us that helpful tools are on the way. Tech companies fled Trump's dual business councils to protest his claim that some white supremacists are "very fine people."

In other headlines, a coalition of web providers made a controversial and unprecedented choice to yank their services out from under the Daily Stormer, a white supremacist news site. Days later, Cloudflare abandoned the site to the whims of whoever feels like DDoSing it. Those decisions, part of the "no platforming" philosophy which would deny hate speech purveyors a place to assemble and share their views, will likely have many reverberations in the days to come. For now, some things remain very much the same.

Unfortunately, while this week's burst of industry energy might suggest otherwise, hate groups are alive and well, making little if any effort to conceal their presence on all of the major social networks. Whether it's 4chan or Facebook, if you go looking for hate online, you'll find it. Dredging up racist, anti-Semitic content often in seeming violation of a company's stated policy takes seconds - trust me, I went looking.

On something like Facebook, hate festers just under the paper-thin layer between a user's social sphere and the platform at large. On a network like Twitter, it's right on the surface, bobbing unpleasantly along down the stream with dog photos and journalist chatter. For anyone surprised about the terrible events that unfolded in Charlottesville: You can find hate anywhere you look and you don't have to look very hard.

I took a grim tour around some of the major social sites into which we sink our hours to see what just a little bit of casual searching could find - yet algorithms often can't (or won't). Again, this content is graphic and disturbing, but pretending it isn't there won't make it go away.
Facebook
On Facebook, white supremacist memes thrive, even in wide-open, public communities. Though plenty of hate just sits out in the open, some users skirt detection by using a kind of unsearchable, far-right code language. Facebook might pick up on the anti-Semitic slur "kike," but by swapping that for "kayak" the content flies under the radar. I was surprised to see that surrounding words in multiple parentheses, also called an "echo," remains common practice to denote something or someone as Jewish. These symbols were established as part of the shallowly submerged white supremacy lexicon more than a year ago.

References to 1488 also remain common, where 14 is a nod to the "14 words" or "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children," a popular mantra with white supremacists and white nationalists. The double 88 is usually a nod to the 8th letter of the alphabet, or "heil Hitler."

Small waves of white supremacist memes crest and fall, and much like Facebook's fake news problem, each wave has another set right behind it and there are many oceans. When I spent some time looking through these communities this week, a particularly popular meme remixed the incredible violence of a counter-protester rolling off of a now infamous ash-gray Dodge Charger with a broad array of anti-black racist memes, some of them drawing from popular mainstream memes, like "the floor is" joke. Another pictured George Washington driving the Charger through the crowd.

One public community I found easily hosted a live stream of Saturday's white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, the full video shot from the perspective of one of the torch-bearing attendees. It felt surprising that so much of this content was just sitting right out in the open on a social network that connects faces to names.

Following Charlottesville, Facebook cracked down, removing a slew of white supremacist and white nationalist pages. Among them: Right Winged Knight, Right Wing Death Squad, Awakening Red Pill, Physical Removal, Genuine Donald Trump, Awakened Masses, White Nationalists United, Vanguard America, Radical Agenda: Common Sense Extremism and the personal page of Chris Cantwell. Many, many others remain as Facebook continues to rely on users flagging content themselves - a deeply flawed method that's proven far more effective as a tool for harassing LGBTQ users and black activists than ridding the platform of hate.

In his statement on Wednesday, Zuckerberg did not meaningfully clarify how Facebook will determine what stays on its platform and what goes. Though he noted that "when someone tries to silence others or attacks them based on who they are or what they believe, that hurts us all and is unacceptable," it does not appear to be unacceptable on Facebook.

Asked how its policy might be evolving, Facebook told me that it does not tolerate hate speech or posts praising acts of violence or hate groups on its platform. This policy, like all policies, is open to interpretation and it's possible that interpretation could shift further over time.
Reddit
In spite of Reddit's mostly hands-off policy and reliance on subreddit-specific moderators, racism on Reddit often takes quirkier forms meant to avoid potential detection. In true Reddit style, overtly racist posts and comments are often played off as self-parodies, draping a thin layer of self-referential humor over what is usually just outright white supremacy. On one thread, users enthusiastically counted up from the number 1,488,000. On subreddits like /r/greentext, users post screencaps of posts from 4chan, host of some popular far right and white supremacist communities. They're careful not to post links to 4chan itself and by screencapping they can avoid searchable text while still replicating most of the content.

In late 2015, Reddit rid itself of some popular openly white supremacist subcommunities like /r/coontown during a prominent sweep, but remarkably, pages like /r/blackpeoplehate live on. Reddit now classifies its most objectionable content as under "quarantine" and requires a verified email address to access it. Like YouTube, which took a similar approach of walling off some content, Reddit "will generate no revenue, including ads or Reddit Gold," from these subreddits. They live on in a state of partial suspended animation.

Following the violence in Charlottesville, Reddit told me that it banned /r/physical_removal for "a violation of our content policy, specifically, the posting of content that incites violence." The company appears responsive to user-generated campaigns when they draw sufficient attention to an issue, which appears to be the goal of /r/AgainstHateSubreddits, a compendium of Redditor-reported hate speech.
YouTube
Initially, YouTube's search made finding white supremacist stuff kind of hard. Given Google's web search prowess it makes sense that the company would do a better job of burying objectionable content than a site like Facebook, but it wasn't buried very deep. After a few searches didn't turn up much, I struck Nazis on a video that prominently displayed a 1488 with a slew of links to the Daily Stormer.

Because it's an entertainment site as much as a social network, many of my search results were home-brewed music videos depicting Nazi imagery with little or no context. A cursory glance at the user names and links was the only overt hint, with, again, many, many 1488s. Some more narrative racism came with disclaimers that the content was satire or just a joke.

Elsewhere, content drawn directly from 4chan's infamous far right hub /pol/ (short for "politically incorrect") was repurposed on a more mainstream platform. Because YouTube, like many of these sites, offers recommended content related to what you're viewing, stumbling onto a little bit of white supremacy opens up a cascading slide of swastikas and racial epithets. Just a few clicks away from a music video declaring whites the master race I ran into a video created by "fashygamer1488" with the following text:
"Hey goys, its [me] here with another video, please write ur comments below, no (((jews))) or googles allowed (Google is a secret alt-right codeword that means the N word lol)..."
Again, racial slurs are traded for common, unsearchable words to keep the content just barely underground.

In June, YouTube followed Reddit's example, creating a separate class of objectionable content that it would no longer monetize. This followed a corporate outcry from brands concerned that their ads were being served along with videos containing hate speech. In just a little bit of time spent browsing YouTube's white supremacist content, I did not run into anything that set this content apart from the rest of its videos, though YouTube has said that feature is coming "soon" and that the "videos will remain on YouTube behind an interstitial, won't be recommended, won't be monetized, and won't have key features including comments, suggested videos, and likes."

For now, the suggestion engine hums along, pointing me toward a selection of Hitler youth haircut instructional videos.
Twitter
Twitter is more responsive as a search engine than something like Facebook, but the search results are often messily curated. My first search for 1488 quickly pulls up tweets like a picture of a white, blue-eyed baby with the text "14 words" and a photo of Hitler. In other tweets, users with neo-Nazi black sun icons and hybrid Trump/Hitler background images call each other "fags" over who is and is not "boomerposting" (i.e. tweeting like a baby boomer).

Unsurprisingly, Twitter has it all. White supremacist demagogue Richard Spencer trying to remain relevant while his peers accuse him of being a Jew. Quotes hailing Trump's off-the-rails presser that defended some white supremacists as "fine people." Racist code words that reverse virtue-signal hate to anyone looking for a like-minded follow. Jokes about cars caked in Photoshopped blood. All of it sends the same message.

On Twitter, there is a lot, lot, lot of this content. It starts to run together.
Tech at a crossroads
These major platforms offer a taste of the toxicity flowing through mainstream social networks, but there are many others. After incubating this kind of stuff for ages, gaming chat platform Discord just finished a major purge. Tumblr, Instagram and Snapchat are fighting the same fight and it's not clear they're winning. Meanwhile, far right offshoots like Gab are specifically designed with sustainable white supremacy in mind. The absolute ubiquity of Nazi insignia, Stormfront links and shockingly violent memes would appear to undercut objections by the extreme right that their speech is being suppressed with much success at all.

Depending on how you use the internet, the fact that this stuff is so easy to find on major social networks could range anywhere from shocking to wholly unsurprising. But the truth is that most of us shy away from looking at it. For anyone who isn't the target demographic, all of this hate is ugly and exhausting. We'd rather just rest easy knowing that tech companies are working on it and they'd rather we didn't haul up more of this stuff - they're working on it.

As we can see from tech ratcheting up its response following Charlottesville, no policy is set in stone. While companies often point users to policies around what does and doesn't fly on their platforms, ultimately the decision to ban content is a subjective response to getting too much heat. Given that willingness to bend to public sentiment, corporate pressure and user-driven anti-hate campaigns are proving themselves to be powerful tools, even if it's not clear where exactly to draw the line. Racial slurs? Nazi insignia? Overt threats of specific violence? For tech, the coming weeks will be a bellwether.

Anywhere you go, white supremacist content has a foothold if not an entire underground compound bedecked in red and black - one that remains even after the Charlottesville backlash. All one needs to do is look. Whether tech companies choose to see is a different matter altogether.

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If you were just paying attention to press releases this week it'd be easy to believe that tech companies are winning the war on hate. Responding to the violence in Charlottesville, Mark Zuckerberg solemnly reflected that there is "no place for hate in our community."

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What ive learned from this is that there is a lot of good in the world, but with every positive there is a negative. The world is filled with good people trying to make this world better and make changes. There are others who would just prefer to spread hate and watch the world burn. those people should not have the right to do so and not be able to spread it.

Only we can stop these hate groups and we need to be together to end them. If we pass laws that make it so they aren't able to keep spreading their hate then imagine how much better the world would be without them.