Online multimedia polish lets hate groups recruit through mainstream appearance

Evidence

Additional research might also focus on how the vehicle by which hate is expressed can influence its impact. A development that obviously occurred after Allport’s (1954/1979) time is the recent scrutiny of hate speech on the internet (e.g., Glaser & Dixit, 2002; Leets, 2001), or what has come to be called “cyberhate” (Levin, 2002). White racist internet chat rooms and websites (e.g., www.Stormfront.org) include music, graphics, and videogames, which may enhance the extent to which hate groups can appear to be mainstream and thereby recruit young members. Benjamin Smith, who committed the hate-motivated drive-by murders in July of 1999, told documentary filmmaker Beverly Peterson months before his spree, “It wasn’t really ‘til I got on the Internet, read some literature of these groups that … it really all came together” (www.adl.org/internet/ extremism_rw/inspiring.asp). — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1300 (#expands, via linked claim)

A development that obviously occurred after Allport’s (1954/1979) time is the recent scrutiny of hate speech on the internet (e.g., Glaser & Dixit, 2002; Leets, 2001), or what has come to be called “cyberhate” (Levin, 2002). White racist internet chat rooms and websites (e.g., www.Stormfront.org) include music, graphics, and videogames, which may enhance the extent to which hate groups can appear to be mainstream and thereby recruit young members. — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 1300 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Online multimedia makes hate groups appear mainstream and recruits young members — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice: Fifty Years…, 1300; Recruiting media helped the Internet radicalize young hate-group members — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1300; Internet hate content recruits young members by appearing mainstream. — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1300 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Internet hate content recruits young members by appearing mainstream. #expands (0.97) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 1300
• Online multimedia makes hate groups appear mainstream and recruits young members #expands (0.95) — John F. Dovidio, Peter Glick, Laurie A. Rudman, On the Nature of Prejudice, 1300