White Supremacists Have a New Strategy

[Judi Lynn]

Extremist groups, fearing a crackdown, have launched a stealthy propaganda offensive.

By CARLA HILL March 05, 2019
Carla Hill is a senior investigative researcher in the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism.

American white supremacists are facing a dilemma: They want to share their hateful ideology, but they don’t want to face the consequences. They want to find an audience for their racism and anti-Semitism, but they don’t want to get caught. Under increased scrutiny from law enforcement and the media, how do they disseminate their racist ideas and recruit new members, but also limit the risk of doxing, firing and ostracization that comes with public exposure?

Within the past few months, they seem to have landed on an answer that keeps their groups in the spotlight while shielding the individual identities of their members: far more propaganda efforts and fewer pre-announced public events.

There’s a very good chance you’ve seen a white supremacist flier or banner in the last year. Data collected by ADL’s Center on Extremism shows a staggering 182 percent increase of propaganda incidents in 2018, with 1,187 cases reported, compared to 421 in 2017. This is the highest number of reported propaganda efforts on record.

And it’s everywhere: Hanging from freeway overpasses, stuck to utility poles, plastered to shop windows or left on the windshields of parked cars. It’s even been found tucked into books inside neighborhood book swap boxes, libraries and book stores.

More:
https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/03/05/white-supremacists-have-a-new-strategy-225518

[Freelancer]

1. Last Autumn I was confronted by a KKK with full white gettup and pointy hood

I came to a 4 way stop next to a hospital parking lot, and a K-K-Kreepazoid stepped up and stuck a leaflet through my open driver side window. He was wearing the full outfit. I was completely gobsmacked. I tossed it out the window and drove forward through the 4 way out of turn, almost clipping a car to my right who, I guess, had the right-of-way. I'm not sure.

Looking in the rear view, a boy (I assume his) was recording it all with a camera. There were people standing farther away with phones out recording too -- bystanders, I'm thinking.

Later on, while I was getting my hair cut, I kept thinking about how the impact of this moron's actions were being multiplied by all the postings repostings, tweetings, and retweetings that had to be going on -- about all the free attention he was getting. So many people were doing his bidding, without even knowing it.

We've got to figure out something we can do about this. But how do you convince people not to post the most interesting thing that happened in their day?

I have no answer.

[Cartoonist]

2. The Watchtower

Whenever I see one of these, I toss it in the trash. That's all you have to do with Klan shit.

[Dennis Donovan]

3. If their ideas are so great, why do they need to hide?

If only they asked themselves that simple question...

[hurple]

4. I have a new strategy suggestion for them

STFU and go away.