White Hoods And Keyboards: An Examination Of The Klan And Ku Klux Klan Websites
September 18, 2023
The Ku Klux Klan is the oldest and most well-known extremist group in the United States with a history dating back nearly 150 years. The Klan has been featured in numerous movies, books, documentaries, and been the center of countless news stories. But, in recent years, the Ku Klux Klan has been all but forgotten ...
Invisible Empire of Hate: Gender Differences in the Ku Klux Klan’s Online Justifications for Violence
September 18, 2023
This article presents a systematic linguistic approach to mapping gender differences in the formulation and practice of right-wing ideology. We conducted a set of content- and text-analytical analyses on a 52,760 words corpus from a female-only subforum, dubbed LOTIES (Ladies of the Invisible Empire), compared with a matching corpus of 1.793 million words from a ...