Hate groups increase 30 percent in four years
Halley Sutton · Campus Security Report · 2019
There's been a 30 percent increase in hate groups in the United States over the last four years, and a 7 percent increase in hate groups in 2018 alone, according to research from the Southern Poverty Law Center. The group classified 1,020 organizations as hate groups in the year 2018. The SPLC defines a hate group as a group that has “beliefs or practices that attack or malign an entire class of people, typically for their immutable characteristics.” Those characteristics include race, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, and gender identity.