Internet Postings Linked to Student Highlight Interest in "Hate Groups": Experts Say Recruitment Efforts Targeting School-Age Youths

Autor/in	Cavanagh, Sean
Titel	Internet Postings Linked to Student Highlight Interest in "Hate Groups": Experts Say Recruitment Efforts Targeting School-Age Youths
Quelle	In: Education Week, 24 (2005) 29, S.11-12 (2 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0277-4232
Schlagwörter	Recruitment; Internet; Age; Ethnicity; Adolescents; Web Sites; Antisocial Behavior; Crime; Social Bias; Racial Bias; American Indians; High School Students; Violence; Minnesota + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Recruiting; Rekrutierung; Alter; Lebensalter; Ethnizität; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Web-Design; Crimes; Delict; Delicts; Delikt; Racial discrimination; Rassismus; American Indian; Indianer; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Gewalt
Abstract	In an Internet forum run by the Libertarian National Socialist Green Party, an organization espousing neo-Nazi views, Jeff Weise made his comments about the group in the year leading up to his deadly armed assault at Red Lake High School in Minnesota. The forum lists 34 postings written by the 16-year-old Native American youth. The commentary Mr. Weise is believed to have submitted to the site has drawn renewed attention to the influence of neo-Nazi and other extremist organizations in schools and among teenagers across the country. In this article, the author describes how the activities of "hate groups" have increased interest in such organizations among students in recent years, as well as an effort by those secretive communities to appeal to the precollegiate age group. According to Randy Blazak, an associate professor of sociology at Portland State University, extremists have modified their message to teenagers in recent years from outright advocacy of racism to a more subtle emphasis on the loss of ethnic identity in an increasingly diverse American society. These themes pervade the Internet postings believed to have been written by Mr. Weise. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10