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¶ … Nijole V. Benokratis, Social Identity
The Christian Identity Movement
Technology made it possible for people to interact in new and interactive ways. However, many are inclined to use these mediums as a means to project their hatred toward other people or groups. These people can go as far as to organize hate groups meant to discriminate those particular people or communities. While the authorities struggle to address this issue by investing as many resources as possible, conditions are critical as a consequence of the fact that it is especially easy for one to create and support an internet hate group.
The internet provides hate groups with the ability to support each-other and makes it possible for individuals who are part of these groups to organize thoughts and strategies meant to support discrimination...
The Christian Identity Movement is a good example of an organized hate group that uses the internet as a tool to discriminate others. "The Christian Identity movement is a movement of many extremely conservative Christian churches and religious organizations, extreme right wing political groups and survival groups." (CHRISTIAN IDENTITY MOVEMENT)
The Christian Identity movement seized the opportunity to use the internet as a tool to influence others to share its ideology. By addressing individuals who it considered likely to support its principles, the group practically created a medium that it could use with the purpose of recruiting as many supporters as possible. Extremist religious groups are a central element when considering internet hate groups.…
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"The Bible Says: History of Abuses Committed in the Name of the Biblical Text," Lulu.com
"CHRISTIAN IDENTITY MOVEMENT," Retrieved July 21, 2014, from http://www.religioustolerance.org/cr_ident.htm
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