In this week’s Hate Report: The operator of a controversial neo-Nazi website goes to the other side of the planet to escape a lawsuit, Trump’s words are being used to bully minority kids and a hate crime charge reduces a racist to a blubbering mess.
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The Hate Report: Has the Southern Poverty Law Center gone too far?
A leading anti-extremism advocacy group’s motives are questioned, a look at what happens when the president shares a video made by someone with a history of racism, and a grieving mother pushes Indiana to enact hate crime laws.
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The Hate Report: Homeland Security stops funding neo-Nazi rehab
The Trump administration cuts off anti-extremism funding to the only two organizations that were solely focused on white supremacists.
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The Hate Report: Scrutinizing the origins of terrorism
During a speech in late February, President Donald Trump assured a crowd that his administration will take “strong measures to protect our nation from radical Islamic terrorism.” The statement in some ways betrayed a fundamental misunderstanding about terror attacks in the U.S.: They’re more likely to be linked to right-wing extremists than to those acting in the name of Islam.
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How we analyzed domestic terror incidents
Through public databases and Freedom of Information Act requests, we collected primary court and law enforcement documents for almost every incident a
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The Hate Report: In Canada, anti-Muslim hate crime skyrockets
Canada was the scene of one of the worst anti-Muslim mass killings in North American history earlier this year.
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The Hate Report: T is for Trump; B is for bully; N is for noose
In this week’s report: An in-depth look at a toxic trend in America’s schools as students invoke the president’s name in their bullying of minority students, a slew of nooses in Washington, D.C., and all is (relatively) calm in Portland.
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The Hate Report: The history behind the Portland stabbings
In this week’s report: Examining Portland’s history of racism following last week’s stabbings, LeBron James becomes a victim of a hate incident, and two more violent attacks.
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The Hate Report: Can a Facebook ‘like’ lead to a hate crime charge?
In this week’s report: Whether a Maryland stabbing is a hate crime might depend on a suspect’s digital breadcrumbs. Plus, going deep into a white supremacist religion and brewing troubles in America’s schools.
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The Hate Report: How Homeland Security has stiffed anti-extremism groups
Grants totaling $10 million were awarded to groups like the Heartland Democracy Center, which sets up counseling groups for kids at risk of radicalization, and Life After Hate, which helps white supremacists and neo-Nazis transition into new lives.