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Well, the national news wasn't filled with pictures of people marching in the open streets with nazi flags 10 years ago, for starters.

• flukus 9y ago
  It was though. The neo Nazi movement was a lot bigger in the 90s than it is now.
  • nl 9y ago
    Not in the US it wasn't. But there’s one huge difference: These newer offshoots have been far more successful than we could ever have dreamed. When you see crowds of hundreds marching through the streets with their faces uncovered, when white supremacist leader Richard Spencer holds a press conference a few days after a woman was killed by one of his fellow travelers and hosts reporters in his home, it becomes clear just how much more terrifying this new generation of extremists is. They’re savvier than we were. Better connected. http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/08/18/former-neo-nazi-charlottesville-terrifies-me-215502 http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/08/18/former-neo...
    • flukus 9y ago
      Crowds of hundreds isn't a lot. Crowds of hundreds from all over the country is absolutely nothing, you'd get more Muslim extremists from a small fraction of the population. I hope you're as worried about Islamic extremists as you are about Nazi ones?
      • nl 9y ago
        I hope you're as worried about Islamic extremists as you are about Nazi ones? Of course. I think all violent extremism is despicable.