Hate Groups Research Paper

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Ambrocik, Nicholas
English 1302-901
Mrs. Harrison 2 March, 2015

Modern Hate groups
One of the most horrifying thoughts people should have in the world today is hate groups. People should learn more about hate groups that brought so much terror and chaos to so many people and cities. These groups are still trying to grow and regain the power they once had. We should not be ignorant to the fact that these groups still exist. Hate groups have moved their attention from job losses, violent attacks, and targeting immigrants; they are focusing their attention to protests and recruiting.
Since the 1990s hate groups have held more protest and recruiting sessions instead of attacks on businesses. With the help of the web hate groups are expanding
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history and represent the more extreme of hundreds of nativist and vigilante groups that have proliferated since the late 1990s. At the time of the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, only one hate site was reported. The explosive growth of the World Wide Web caused an enormous development in hate sites, and this number of hate group websites continues to increase at a rapid rate. Many problems occur on the Internet today. In this technology age, someone on the World Wide Web can obtain illegal prescriptions, buy tobacco underage, buy and sell illegal guns, and perform many more hazardous actions. Hate group websites on the Internet are one setback that seems to cause severe problems. Cyberhate also focuses on other groups such as United States based groups, youth and women, marketing groups, international groups, and mayhem anarchy bombs. Aside from mainstream political debate over the solution to illegal immigration, immigrant advocates say they 're worried that violence against Latinos or brown-skinned people thought to be immigrants is on the rise. According to the most recent FBI statistics, there were 830 attacks of various kinds on Hispanics in 2007. “By comparison, 1,087 attacks were made on homosexuals, who are also frequent targets of hate speech. Footnote 18 In 2000, there were 557 reported attacks on Hispanics compared to 1,075 attacks against homosexuals.”( …show more content…
In the past 100 years hate groups have come and went trying to spread their image and putting fear in the hearts of people they consider inferior. As the times have some studies show one of the reasons why hate groups are fading away is because there 's been more diversity in the United States and people are being more open minded in school.
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