White supremacist propaganda on college campuses is soaring
The amount of white supremacist propaganda posted on college campuses has nearly doubled in the last year, according to a new report released Thursday by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).
The report found that in the last year alone, there have been 292 reported incidents of white supremacist propaganda — including stickers, banners, and flyers containing racist and anti-Semitic messages — left on campuses that range from Ivy League to local community colleges.
The incidents represent a 77 percent increase from the previous year. “They’re trying to engage with what they hope are future members of their organizations,” Oren Segal, director of ADL’s Center on Extremism, told the New York Times. “They have put a premium on winning hearts and mind.”
Segal added that by targeting liberal and multicultural college campuses, white supremacists believe they are “striking back” at threats to them. It is also a cheap way to increase their notoriety and, in era where hate crimes continue to rise, potentially attract new recruits who harbor racist beliefs but haven’t yet acted on them.
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