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Thu Jun 27, 2019, 08:15 PM Jun 2019

More white supremacist propaganda showing up on US campuses

Source: Associated Press

More white supremacist propaganda showing up on US campuses

By MICHAEL R. SISAK
June 27, 2019

NEW YORK (AP) — Colleges in the U.S. are seeing more racist rhetoric on campus, a new report finds.

Instances of white supremacist propaganda showing up on college campuses trended higher in the recently completed academic year, according to the Anti-Defamation League report published Thursday.

That follows a major spike in documented cases of white supremacist fliers, stickers, posters and other material in the 2017-2018 academic year, the hate watchdog group said.

And it’s only getting worse.

The just-completed spring semester saw more extremist propaganda on campus than any preceding semester, the ADL said, with 161 incidents on 122 different campuses across 33 states and the District of Columbia.

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Read more: https://apnews.com/c62765692f074283a47be08884ce6236
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