What is extremism, and who are extremist groups I here? I was asking the same question I have never heard or seen the words that form groups such as ‘Hammer Head Skin Nation’, ‘Stormfront’ and ‘National Alliance’, these are extremist groups from across the world, that have been around for many years.
Extremism is the real enemy of our times, and it is the enemy of all people. Throughout history there have been many extremist philosophies, religions, and styles of governance. White extremist groups are driven by things like; racial purity, anti Semitism, political hegemony, anti liberal and anti government, which are usually violent and un-welcomed.
Extremist groups utilise the Internet to send out messages and to recruit new members into their groups. They use social media platforms such as Facebook, Blogs, Myspace and YouTube to recruit new members due the fact that there are millions of users logging onto these sites daily, with having links on webpage’s etc groups such as the National Alliance is linked to basically every white extremist group and or organization on the internet today. The Southern Cross Hammerskin heads are the Australian arm of the Hammerskins, they follow the 14 words which are "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children." AKA "the 14 words". It is scary to know that we have this group in Australia carrying out their polices of the 14 words. The skin head started in the 1960's which had heavy British mod and Jamaican rude boy influences, they eventually they spread across the world.. and yes into our very own country!
People are involved with groups everyday across the globe i.e. associations, organisations, such as sporting events, schools groups etc. These are things that we do in our personal time for self satisfaction, they are usually non associated with intended violence or hate against others, as our sporting groups, school groups etc are usually all multicultural… Are extremist groups the same? NO … hate groups such as the Skin Heads and KKK (Ku Klux Klan) pick on homosexuals, Asians, and are anti-black towards anyone that is not of the same European race as them, basically extremist groups such as the skin heads are just pure racist!.
I know extremism is the dark side of social media. But why extremist groups have to pick on homosexuals, Asians, black or anti-black. It is totally racist and no respect. Race, racism, religion, gender and power should not be a factor in violence. Also creating hate groups and slagging politicians or celebrities is just unacceptable.
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