Hate Groups Racism has been around for thousands of years. In today's society where differences between people are magnified and everyone is discussing diversity, tensions between different groups are remarkably high. The extreme of this tension is brought out in hate groups. Hate groups play off of the stereotypes of specific peoples. They use these generalities in their relentless and often violent persecution of those different from themselves. This paper is to explain the reasons …showed first 75 words of 1795 total…

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