In the wake of last week’s terrorist attacks on two mosques in Christchuch, NZ, our partners at @WeCounterHate saw a surge in anti-Muslim tweets and RTs. (a thread ...)
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• Anti-Muslim hate speech increased 8x in the three days following the shootings. • Retweets of anti-Muslim hate speech jumped 91 percent.
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• Likes of anti-Muslim hate speech increased by more than 125 percent. • There was a 62 percent increase in language that evokes “polarization,” which is the second highest-intensity form of hate speech on our scale. That’s one step behind explicitly calling for violence.
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• There was also a 32 percent increase in “classification language.” In this case, white nationalists lamented a perceived double standard. Their claim: When a Muslim commits a violent attack, they (white nationalists) aren’t allowed to blame ALL Muslims.
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But when a white nationalist commits a violent attack, ALL white nationalists are blamed. Example:pic.twitter.com/vbx3BZ655N
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There’s this idea that white nationalism is a peaceful ideology (it isn’t).
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