{"id":396668,"date":"2019-02-21T11:14:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T10:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-active-hate-groups-in-us-reached-highest-number-in-2018\/"},"modified":"2019-02-21T11:14:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T10:14:00","slug":"presstv-active-hate-groups-in-us-reached-highest-number-in-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-active-hate-groups-in-us-reached-highest-number-in-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-Active hate groups in US reached highest number in 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The number of active hate groups in the United States reached a historic high in 2018, a new report has revealed, blaming the trend on a \u201ctoxic combination\u201d of political polarization, anti-immigrant sentiment and online propaganda.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Southern Poverty Law Center said Wednesday that last year saw the number of hate groups rose by 7 percent to 1,020, a 30-percent rise from 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The center warned in its statement that most of the hate groups, including neo-Nazis, the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Confederates and white nationalists, promoted white supremacist ideology.<\/p>\n<p>The number of white nationalist groups rose by almost a half over the same period, going from 100 all the way up to 148.<\/p>\n<p>It was the fourth consecutive year in the rise of hate groups across the US, the law center said.<\/p>\n<p>According to SPLC, the numbers correspond with other worrying trends in the US such as a 30-percent increase in the number of hate crimes reported to the FBI between&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2019\/02\/21\/589131\/US-number-of-active-hate-groups-SPLC\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of active hate groups in the United States reached a historic high in 2018, a new report has revealed, blaming the trend on a \u201ctoxic combination\u201d of political polarization, anti-immigrant sentiment and online propaganda. The Southern Poverty Law Center said Wednesday that last year saw the number of hate groups rose by 7 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-396668","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}