Many white supremacist groups have used the Internet to recruit potential new members and spread their message of hate. Extremists have taken advantage of the open forums and venues on the Internet, as well as new technologies, to promote their bigoted ideology. In 2008, there has been a marked increase in anti-Semitic material in online discussion groups hosted on such mainstream websites as Yahoo!, Google, and AOL ("State of Hate: Exploiting the Internet to Promote Hatred - Confronting the New Faces of Hate," n.d). Donald Trumps recent tweet has empowered and sparked activity amongst hate group.
White supremacist groups have also created sophisticated computer games aimed at attracting teenagers. Ethnic Cleansing, the most high-tech game of its kind, encourages players to kill blacks, Jews, and Hispanics as they run through urban ghettos and subway environments. Very little can be done to ban the game since many other video games are designed to allow enthusiasts to create new levels and characters, while free software tools enable programmers to build new platforms (Left, 2002). However all the blame can’t be placed the Internet, as media platforms such as the news, music and good ole word of mouth has a hand in igniting popularity. Among domestic extremist movements active in the United States, white supremacists are by far the most violent, committing about 83% of the extremist-related murders in the United States in the past 10 years and being involved in about 52% of the shootouts between extremists and police ("With Hate in their …show more content…
In many cases, hate may be seen or perceived by the victims, their families, witnesses, and even law enforcement to be the motivation for a crime, but perpetrators may not be charged with a hate crime for a variety of reasons—many of the same reasons that the debate on hate-crime laws continues in this
White supremacist groups have also created sophisticated computer games aimed at attracting teenagers. Ethnic Cleansing, the most high-tech game of its kind, encourages players to kill blacks, Jews, and Hispanics as they run through urban ghettos and subway environments. Very little can be done to ban the game since many other video games are designed to allow enthusiasts to create new levels and characters, while free software tools enable programmers to build new platforms (Left, 2002). However all the blame can’t be placed the Internet, as media platforms such as the news, music and good ole word of mouth has a hand in igniting popularity. Among domestic extremist movements active in the United States, white supremacists are by far the most violent, committing about 83% of the extremist-related murders in the United States in the past 10 years and being involved in about 52% of the shootouts between extremists and police ("With Hate in their …show more content…
In many cases, hate may be seen or perceived by the victims, their families, witnesses, and even law enforcement to be the motivation for a crime, but perpetrators may not be charged with a hate crime for a variety of reasons—many of the same reasons that the debate on hate-crime laws continues in this