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GLOSSARY OF EXTREMISM AND HATE

Anti-LGBTQ+ Extremism

Anti-LGBTQ+ extremism is a form of single-issue extremism whose adherents focus on demonizing, attacking or otherwise intentionally targeting individuals, communities or institutions based on their real or perceived identification with or support for a sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression... Read more

Key Concepts / Definitions Single-issue

GLOSSARY OF EXTREMISM AND HATE

UCC 1-308 and UCC 1-…

UCC1-308 is a provision of the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC), a body of state law that every state has passed to make financial transactions between citizens and businesses of different states seamless and uniform. UCC1-207 is a... Read more

Numbers / Symbols Anti-government

GLOSSARY OF EXTREMISM AND HATE

Washitaw Empire/Nati…

The Washitaw Empire/Nation was a Black sovereign citizen group in the mid-1990s that eventually split into several groups and became a wing of the Moorish sovereign citizen movement, an offshoot of the traditional sovereign citizen movement. The... Read more

Groups / Movements Anti-government

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William Potter Gale

William Potter Gale (1916-1988), a retired U.S. Army colonel, was a disciple of Christian Identity pioneer Wesley Smith and a prominent extremist active in California for decades, forming or participating in many different groups. In the 1970s... Read more

People Anti-government

GLOSSARY OF EXTREMISM AND HATE

Winston Shrout

Winston Shrout is a prominent sovereign citizen guru whose videos and seminars attracted thousands to the anti-government extremist movement in the 2000s. He also played a role in exporting ideas of the sovereign citizen movement to several... Read more

People Anti-government

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Robert Spencer

Robert Spencer is a leading anti-Muslim bigot and conspiracy theorist who heads the organization Stop Islamization of America, and runs the conspiratorial Islamophobic website Jihad Watch. Spencer claims that Muslims want to impose Sharia Law (Muslim religious... Read more

People Single-issue

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Rodney Coronado

Rodney Coronado is a longtime spokesperson for the extremist environmental and animal rights movements in the United States. Coronado was involved in the firebombing of an animal research laboratory at Michigan State University (MSU) in 1992 and... Read more

People Single-issue

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Roger Elvick

Roger Elvick was a prominent sovereign citizen guru from the 1980s through the 2000s. In 1999, he popularized "redemption theory," a set of sovereign citizen theories that are still popular today. Elvick had a long criminal history... Read more

People Anti-government

GLOSSARY OF EXTREMISM AND HATE

Ropefuel

Ropefuel refers to topics that feed depressive or suicidal ideations among incels. The use of the word "rope" refers to the suicidal method of hanging oneself. The opposite of "ropefuel" is "lifefuel."

Key Concepts / Definitions Single-issue

GLOSSARY OF EXTREMISM AND HATE

Roy Den Hollander

Roy Den Hollander is a self-described "anti-feminist lawyer" and Men's Rights Activist who carried out a fatal shooting at a New Jersey federal judge"s home before killing himself.

People Single-issue