Online Hate Groups Lecture

Stop signTODAY! YOU ARE INVITED to join Communication Studies Faculty, Michael Korolenko, as he presents his lecture of “ONLINE HATE.”  Michael will present his lecture  with images and discussion on why there are so many of them, the danger they pose and an explanation of their ideologies.

Room D106 
Wednesday, October 26th  | 11:30 am 

NOW, MORE THAN EVER, THIS SUBJECT NEEDS TO BE DISCUSSED

Since the mid-1990s, online hate groups have proliferated on the web.  Where, before Hate speech is not free speechthe advent of the web, small clusters of hate groups existed, now they can form groups that number in the hundreds of thousands online.  Aryan Nations, Stormfront, the Ku Klux Klan and, now the alt.right all have one thing in common – a visceral hatred of people who are African American, Hispanic – (actually all people of color), Muslim and Jewish.  They want a “White Christian Nation”, a homeland for “pure Aryan races”.

Picture of lab top computer broken down the middleThere are now nearly 900 such groups online.  This isn’t even counting the “trolls” who anonymously and personally attack people for their race, religion, or political beliefs.

Hope to see you there!!