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Fri Jun 17, 2016, 10:57 AM Jun 2016

White extremism a year after Charleston

By Chris Joyner - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Posted: 6:00 a.m. Thursday, June 16, 2016

... “The whole entire white supremacist movement is struggling. The Klan movement is struggling and the whole neo-Nazi movement almost died,” said Carla Hill, an investigative researcher for the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism ...

... Hill and others I spoke to who spend time monitoring hate groups sounded surprised I was asking about Charleston at all. Extremist groups have moved on to stoking fears about more current topics.

“They are focused on Muslims, Syrian refugees, even transgender restrooms,” Hill said. “The Confederate thing has taken a back seat” ...

Not everybody reckons the strength of hate groups the same way. The Southern Poverty Law Center calculates that hate groups increased by 14 percent in 2015 ...


http://www.myajc.com/news/news/state-regional/white-extremism-a-year-after-charleston/nrgpf/

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