Extremists have turned Texas into a hotbed for hate: report

[justaprogressive]

Texas continues to be a hotbed for extremism and antisemitism, driven by the heavy presence of white supremacist and anti-LGBTQ+ groups that are headquartered or active in the state.

That’s according to a report released Thursday by the Anti-Defamation League that examined nearly three years of “alarming levels of extremist ideology and activity” in Texas, and suggested a handful of policies to combat the growing problem.

Since 2021, the report found, antisemitic incidents in the state have jumped by 89%, and there have been six “terrorist plots” in addition to 28 “extremist events” such as training and rallies. Texas also led the nation in white supremacist propaganda last year; had the most residents charged in relation to the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection; and, in March, saw a neo-Nazi and extreme misogynist gunman kill 8 people at an Allen shopping mall.

The report specifically noted the presence of white supremacist groups such as Patriot Front, which is based in the Dallas area and has repeatedly marched in major cities across the country, including this summer in Austin. Patriot Front was founded by Texas resident Thomas Rousseau after 2017’s deadly neo-Nazi march in Charlottesville, Virginia, and was responsible for roughly 80% of all white supremacist propaganda incidents nationwide last year. The group also was present at former President Donald Trump’s rally in Waco this year, and 31 of its members were arrested near a 2022 Idaho Pride event on conspiracy to riot charges.

[link:https://www.alternet.org/extremists-have-turned-texas-into-a-hotbed-for-hate-report/|

[2naSalit]

1. I have taken to eschew...

Products or services that originate there and will never cross the border into that wretched state ever again. Hated it when I first started going there for business and still do for many of the same reasons but exponentially so now.

[magicarpet]

2. This was all encouraged, coddled, and actively supported by team trDump.

These people are his Private Fascist Praetorian Storm troopers out to incite hatred and foment violence upon trDump's wishes or commands.

These are the human skull cracker goons of his silent Coup d'etat who's ambition is to dismantle and decimate a functional American Democracy, replacing it with a permanent Fascist State.

[Aristus]

3. Yeah, because it was never a hotbed for hate before.

Like when good ole Texans threatened the life of JFK if he came to Dallas. (And one loser with a mail-order rifle made good on that threat.)

Then there was that little tiff of 1861-1865 over...I don't know...African-American guest workers or some shit...

[SouthernDem4ever]

4. What are they thinking?

That I won't hate them back? Too late MotherF'ers.