Mark Potok
Mark Potok
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It's very likely they didn't have direct or public connections to hate groups. It's very likely this was a troubled young man who was attracted to images of power.
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Very typically these days we see white supremacists, hate groups, trying to use the words of King and other civil rights leaders to try to advance their agendas.
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I don't see any evidence that these fires are hate crimes. Anti-Christian crimes are exceedingly rare in the South. It's more likely to be teenagers or a mentally ill person.
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I don't see any evidence that these fires are hate crimes.
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Hate speech is in the ear of the beholder.
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I don't think there's anything thus far to suggest a hate crime.
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They always claim to be larger and more powerful than they really are,
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This case could have been made 36 years ago. ... (The FBI) knew what had happened,
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People expect that these kinds of incidents won't happen in schools and universities.
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The movement is interested not so much in developing street thugs who beat up people in bars, but college-bound teens who live in middle-class and upper-class homes.
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You often see these groups spring up in response to demographic changes. Some people feel threatened, and they look for a group to blame.
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meeting with extremist anti-government groups and inoculating them against anthrax.
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The notion of radical Islamists from abroad actually getting together with American neo-Nazis I think is an absolutely frightening one, ... It's just that so far we really have no evidence at all to suggest this is any kind of real collaboration.
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Americans ignore the threat of these groups at their peril. Eleven years ago, a pair of extremists carried out a mass killing that included the murder of 19 children. If we're not careful, it could very well happen again.