Post by Logan on Feb 21, 2016 20:12:07 GMT -6
The number of hate groups in Pennsylvania rose to 40 last year, up from 38 the year before, according to a recent report by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Its Spring 2016 Intelligence Report, "The Year in Hate and Extremism," features Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on its cover. In it, a senior fellow at the SPLC called 2015 a year of "horrific political violence."
"The violence arose in a landscape dominated by losses for those on the political far right," senior fellow Mark Potok wrote.
"Hard-liners were enraged by the Supreme Court's legalization of same-sex marriage; pressure to accept Syrian refugees; President Obama's executive orders meant to stall deportation of many undocumented workers; the attack on the Confederate battle flag that resulted from a flag-enthusiast's mass murder in Charleston; and the demographic browning of the U.S. population," Potok wrote in an editorial.
Read more: www.post-gazette.com/news/state/2016/02/21/Report-Hate-groups-up-in-Pennsylvania/stories/201602210207
Its Spring 2016 Intelligence Report, "The Year in Hate and Extremism," features Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on its cover. In it, a senior fellow at the SPLC called 2015 a year of "horrific political violence."
"The violence arose in a landscape dominated by losses for those on the political far right," senior fellow Mark Potok wrote.
"Hard-liners were enraged by the Supreme Court's legalization of same-sex marriage; pressure to accept Syrian refugees; President Obama's executive orders meant to stall deportation of many undocumented workers; the attack on the Confederate battle flag that resulted from a flag-enthusiast's mass murder in Charleston; and the demographic browning of the U.S. population," Potok wrote in an editorial.
Read more: www.post-gazette.com/news/state/2016/02/21/Report-Hate-groups-up-in-Pennsylvania/stories/201602210207