Biases against certain groups of people can escalate into acts of violence if left unchecked.
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It can be easy to mistake feelings like fear and anger as hate. When biases are acted out in harmful ways, however, speaking up can help stop hate from getting worse.
A KKK rally in Dayton, Ohio, on Sept. 21, 1923.
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Most of the Klan’s victims were African American, but many other groups have been targeted during the hate group’s century and a half of history.
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Feminists are about as man-hating as men are.
It’s one thing to agree to combat antisemitism. It’s another thing to agree on what it means.
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Combatting antisemitism isn’t just about ‘calling it out’ – it’s about helping people understand what antisemitism is in the first place.
Recent protests draw attention to antisemitic memes and tropes that persist on social media.
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Latest figures show antisemitism in the UK is on the rise, with new expressions of anti-Jewish hatred merely reviving older ones.
A Palestinian protester uses a slingshot during clashes with Israeli soldiers at the northern entrance of the West Bank city of Ramallah on May 21, the day a cease-fire took effect after 11 days of heavy fighting between Israel and Gaza’s Hamas rulers.
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Hate-inspired violence is the cause of conflict around the world. It’s time to consider hatred as a serious public health issue and even a disease so it can be treated — and possibly prevented.
While mental health check-ins are important, there is more we can do.
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In the wake of anti-Asian violence in North America, we need to demand accountability and not just stop after performing mental health check-ins.
An academic expert on Islamophobia attended a ‘free-speech’ conference in Toronto, where she was assaulted after challenging speakers for promoting hatred against Muslims.
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Covert power brokers are using cultural, political and economic ideas to influence, shape and inform white nationalist views. They help circulate bigotry by dressing it up as patriotism.
A 1903 drawing by Louis Dalrymple depicts European immigrants as “rats” (in the magazine Judge ).
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The deepening geographic, racial, gender and educational divisions in America shows some striking parallels between the nation today and in the 1920s.