White Supremacists
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White Supremacists: Who are they?
Throughout the past decades, the ideas of forming groups of white supremacists
were enrolled. The ideology behind this was that the white race was superior to others and none could be better (Wikipedia). Not only is this philosophy based on superiority, but also on the gender, religion, or class of another being (Rabinowitz, Howard). White supremacists claimed that all non-white races should be exterminated and/or forced to live separately from the other civilized whites (Wilder, Ryan). Not only so, but the idea of different races being mixed was a corruption (Wilder, Ryan).
The movement of the white supremacists began in 1865, right after the slavery period, which mostly occurred in the United States (Wilder, Ryan). Blacks lost various jobs to the whites (e.g. government positions) and new laws were added to the blacks voting (Rabinowitz, Howard). Using their will, the black race responded to this segregation by forging independent local Baptist churches (Rabinowitz, Howard). Even though the black race was the biggest target of white supremacists, we could also find discrimination against the Jews, the Muslims, the Hispanics, the Asians, Southern Europeans, Eastern Europeans, Middle Easterners, North Africans, non-Protestants, atheists, and homosexuals (Wikipedia, white supremacy). This discrimination was found in the United States, Australia, South Africa, in the nations of Europe and parts of Latin America (Wikipedia, white supremacy).
"There is no central neo-Nazis or white supremacists organization. Rather, the far-right movement spreads out in web like fashion with members of various groups drifting away for a while, becoming active again, and networking through a variety of communication system" (Neo-Nazis p.09, Kathlyn Gay). We can find different types of white supremacists, all depending on the ideology of the person being (Wikipedia, white supremacy). Some followed the idea of Nordicism and Germanicism, which constituted of ignoring the Southern and Eastern Europe (Wikipedia, white supremacy). These beliefs all came
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