This year’s annual State of Hate report by HOPE not hate runs to over 60 pages. It’s what one might describe as a ‘bumper edition’ of a yearly report into racial hatred, fascism and neo-Nazism in not just the United Kingdom, but continental Europe as well.
As we predicted last year, violence and antagonism have increased. So too has the oft-repeated misconception that the far right has been on the increase. What we witnessed in 2016 was actually the mainstreaming of some of the more ‘palatable’ views of the extreme far-right, with prejudicial views on Muslims, immigration and other minorities ignited by issues such as Brexit and absorbed into more mainstream political discourse.
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