Southern Poverty Law Center affixes Trump as face of 'year in hate' report

[Eugene]

Source: The Guardian

The Southern Poverty Law Center anchored its annual report on hate in America with a picture of the leading Republican presidential candidate: Donald Trump.

The image underscores a theme laid out by the report’s author, about how hate speech has invaded mainstream political discourse in a way that might have shocked many even a year ago.

“I have been writing these Year in Hate and Extremism essays for 20 years now, and only very rarely, if at all, have we seen a year like last year,” said Mark Potok, a senior fellow at SPLC and author of the Intelligence Report.

There is “enormous rage in the electorate, the growth of hate groups and also hate speech in mainstream politics to an extent that we have not seen in decades”, he said.

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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/17/southern-poverty-law-center-hate-speech-report-donald-trump

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essica Glenza in New York
Wednesday 17 February 2016 21.58 GMT

[Purveyor]

1. Trump will have a field day with this one, indeed... eom

[olddad56]

2. oh, no doubt, he will spew his hatred on them.

[Reter]

3. No he won't

Even he knows there is one group that you can't attack.

[mgmaggiemg]

4. it brings out both

institutional and non-institutional hate in public where it can be seen but Trump by no means, by a long shot corners the market on hate...we should not forget that...

[trof]

5. Link to image:

Can't copy and paste for some reason.

https://www.splcenter.org/

[pampango]

6. "... how hate speech has invaded mainstream political discourse in a way that might have shocked

many even a year ago.

There is “enormous rage in the electorate, the growth of hate groups and also hate speech in mainstream politics to an extent that we have not seen in decades”, he said.

Counted among the hate speech in the report were Trump’s statements on how illegal immigrants, especially Mexicans, are more likely to be rapists; his proposal to ban Muslim immigration to the US; and his tweets that regurgitate racist propaganda or retweeting of white supremacists. All of these statements, the SPLC said, caused the candidate to receive, “glowing endorsements from white nationalist leaders”.

“The biggest thing behind that rage I’m describing is the dramatic demographic change the US has gone through as a result of immigration and globalization,” said Potok. “The idea that this country will lose its white majority in 30 years.” The US Census Bureau predicts that no one racial or ethnic group will have a majority by 2043, making the country a “majority-minority”.

“What I’m saying is there’s a lot of anger around particular southern whites who feel their way of life is under attack,” Potok said.

Hate speech thrives and 'political correctness' is ridiculed on the right.

[Tarc]

7. Trump is the 21st century George Wallace