{"id":8972,"date":"2017-09-27T08:00:45","date_gmt":"2017-09-27T08:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/?p=8972"},"modified":"2017-09-29T02:13:52","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T02:13:52","slug":"how-hate-hangs-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/2017\/09\/27\/how-hate-hangs-on\/","title":{"rendered":"How Hate Hangs On"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n Pete Simi, Kathleen Blee, Matthew DeMichele, and Steven Windisch, <\/span>“Addicted to Hate: Identity Residual among Former White Supremacists,” American Sociological Review<\/em>,<\/a><\/span> 2017<\/span><\/div>\n
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After the 2016 Presidential election in the United States, Brexit in the UK, and a wave of far-right election bids across Europe, white supremacist organizations are re-emerging in the public sphere and taking advantage of new opportunities to advocate for their vision of society. While these groups have always been quietly organizing in private enclaves and online forums, their renewed public presence has many wondering how they keep drawing members. <\/span>New research in <\/span>American Sociological Review <\/span><\/i><\/a>by <\/span>Pete Simi<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Kathleen Blee<\/span><\/a>, <\/span>Matthew DeMichele<\/span><\/a>, and <\/span>Steven Windisch<\/span><\/a> sheds light on this question with a new theory\u2014people who try to leave these groups can get \u201caddicted\u201d to hate, and leaving requires a long period of recovery. <\/span><\/p>\n

<\/div> The authors draw on 89 life history interviews with former members of white supremacist groups. These interviews were long, in-depth discussions of their pasts, lasting between four and eight hours each. After analyzing over 10,000 pages of interview transcripts, the authors found a common theme emerging from the narratives. Membership in a supremacist group took on a \u201cmaster status\u201d\u2014an identity that was all-encompassing and touched on every part of a member\u2019s life. Because of this deep involvement, many respondents described leaving these groups like a process of addiction recovery. They would experience momentary flashbacks of hateful thoughts, and even relapses into hateful behaviors that required therapeutic \u201cself talk\u201d to manage. People can get \u201caddicted\u201d to hate, which means leaving hate groups can require a long period of recovery. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We often hear about members (or infiltrators) of extremist groups getting \u201cin too deep\u201d to where they cannot leave without substantial personal risk. This research helps us understand how getting out might not be enough, because deep group commitments don\u2019t just disappear when people leave. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pete Simi, Kathleen Blee, Matthew DeMichele, and Steven Windisch, “Addicted to Hate: Identity Residual among Former White Supremacists,” American Sociological Review, 2017 After the 2016 Presidential election in the United States, Brexit in the UK, and a wave of far-right election bids across Europe, white supremacist organizations are re-emerging in the public sphere and taking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1957,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,13,85,14],"tags":[2257,14907,4288,37332,37336,37333,4291],"class_list":["post-8972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-inequality","category-politics","category-race","tag-addiction","tag-sociology-of-culture","tag-hate-groups","tag-inequality","tag-politics","tag-race","tag-white-supremacy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1957"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8972"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8977,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8972\/revisions\/8977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/discoveries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}