More incidents of white supremacist propaganda were reported in 2022 than in any other year recorded by the Anti-Defamation League, the advocacy group said in a report last week.
“Our data shows a 38 percent increase in incidents from the previous year, with a total of 6,751 cases reported in 2022, compared to 4,876 in 2021,” according to the ADL, which has been tracking such data since 1979.
Incidents of white supremacist propaganda include the distribution of “racist, anti-semitic and LGBTQ+ fliers, stickers, banners, graffiti and posters, as well as laser projections,” the organization said.
And the ADL’s report found a whopping 93% of all the reported propaganda it documented was distributed by members of three white supremacist groups: the Patriot Front, the Goyim Defense League and White Lives Matter. The Texas-based Patriot Front was responsible for 80% of the reported incidents of the propaganda, according to the report.
As the ADL noted, the Patriot Front frequently masks its hate with nationalistic language like “America First,” the phrase revived by Donald Trump and Trump-loving white nationalist Nick Fuentes, who dined at the former president’s estate in late 2022.
The ADL’s report shows the U.S. is having flashbacks to a time when overt white supremacy was common and aided in large part by officials who excused and occasionally embraced this hateful ideology.
All that is old is made “new” again. And in that vein, I wanted to go off the beaten path a bit to shout out “The ReidOut” producer Adam Garnett for putting some history on my radar.
Adam was researching for a segment last week when he came across a story that puts today’s white supremacist propaganda in its proper context. It comes from writer Savannah Worley and chronicles the Ku Klux Klan’s resurgence in Indiana in 1920.
Worley wrote for AfroSapiophile last month:
In 1920, a Klan member named Joe Huffington crossed Indiana’s state lines at the command of Imperial…
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