The Oklahoma City bombing pushed Altemeyer to publicize experimental evidence on hate propaganda

Evidence

(In the end I decided not to publish my findings, for the reasons described above, plus the fact that I had not found a way to counteract hate literature. When I sent off the manuscript for this book to prospective publishers in March of 1995, it did not have this chapter in it. Then the Oklahoma City bombing occurred, and we found out a lot more about the “militias,” the distortions being drummed out on the Internet, “hate radio,” and so on. It seemed obvious that denial literature was spreading rapidly anyway and probably having a terrible effect on certain people. That led me to include this chapter, so as to document the power of these lies.) — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 4375

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s vault claims on conspiracist-authoritarian identity fusion; the militia/‘hate radio’ milieu tracks Whitehead & Perry’s Christian nationalism radical fringe.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter, 4375