The number of white nationalist groups, hate and anti -government around the United States fell slightly in 2024, not because of any reduced influence but rather the opposite. Many feel that their beliefs, which include racist narratives and the so -called Christian persecution, have normalized more in government and conventional discourse.
In its annual year in the hatred and extremism report, published on Thursday, the South Poverty Law Center He said he had 1,371 hate groups and extremists, a 5%decrease. The non -profit group attributes this to a lower sense of urgency to organize because their beliefs have infiltrated politics, education and society in general. Some of the ways in which they have done this are to promote the prohibitions of initiatives for diversity, equity and inclusion, prohibitions of books and protests of the hours of the history of drag, according to the report.
Last year, there were 533 active hate groups. These include groups that express opinions that are anti-LBGTQ+, anti-immigrants, anti-Semites and anti-musulms. This number has constantly decreased since it reached a historical maximum of 1,021 in 2018.
“The trends have risen a little up and down, but let’s say that in general, since our monitoring has increased. And that is not only at a total level of numbers but also in a per capita,” said Rachel Carroll Rivas, interim director of the SPLC intelligence project.
The number of anti -government groups last year totaled 838, an increase in recent years, according to the Montgomery Law Center, Alabama, which tracks racism, xenophobia and extreme right militias. These groups see the federal government as “tyrannical” and include militias and self -written sovereign citizens.
Male supremacy also continues to emerge as an influential hat. The SPLC documented seven new groups of male supremacist hate, which makes the total 16. His rhetoric defends misogyny and strict gender roles. His growing influence occurred during an election year when the country saw a woman of color being the first presidential nominated for an important political party.
“I am not sure that it is a direct result of Kamala Harris’s candidacy,” Rivas said. However, SPLC researchers entered chat rooms of white supremacist organizations during the elections and found “intense vilipendiar, the claim of Harris’s demonization, as well as only the impulse of the idea falsely that women would not be qualified.”
Some people in the extreme right have also pressed the belief that white Christian culture is being threatened by a “demographic crisis”, including less births.
“Politicians, experts and provocaters on the right have turned to the demonic language to rent those who do not agree with them,” says the report.
Last year’s report found “record numbers” of white nationalist groups and anti-LGBTQ in 2023. The analysis highlighted how extreme-right groups tried to control democracy through misinformation, false conspiracy theories and threats to electoral workers. He also examined how supporters of Christian supremacy used similar issues to organize a movement towards authoritarianism.
The SPLC is a liberal defense organization that, in addition to monitoring hate groups, presents demands on issues of justice and offers educational programs to counteract prejudices. Frequently criticized by conservatives as biased, the non -profit organization has faced demands for their designation of some organizations such as hate groups.
The report statement occurs when a professor at the University of Los Angeles made an appearance in front of the media and the followers a few weeks after being seriously injured in a blow and career that reported as hate crime. Aki Maehara, 71, arrived at the American Chinese Museum in downtown Los Angeles on Thursday morning in a wheelchair, but could walk to a podium.
“All his support, concern and care has helped to accelerate my healing and has helped me to lift the spirit,” Maehara told the crowd.
The photos of their wounds published on a Gofundme page have been shared several times on social networks with users who ask for charges for hate crimes. The crowdsourcing campaign has raised almost $ 80,000 for Maehara until Thursday.
Maehara said he is considering directing some of the funds “to other victims of Asian hate violence and other victims of racist violence who currently need support.”
“I want to add my voice to the efforts to address the fascist and racist violence directed against the islands of the Asian Pacific, immigrant communities, all specific communities and individuals during our current crisis,” he said.
Maehara was riding his electric bicycle in Montebello, 10 miles (16 kilometers) east of the center of Los Angeles, on April 29 when he says he listened to a driver to shout a racial insult. Maehara says a car hit him and the driver fled. He was hospitalized with a brain shock, neck injury, fracture of cheeks bones, bruises and swelling up and down his body, among other injuries.
Maehara, who is American Japanese, teaches a course on the history of racism in the United States in East Los Angeles College. He returned to the classroom last week, according to multiple points of sale.
The Montebello Police Department is investigating.
