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CSUSB professor discusses impact of civil verdict against organizers of 2017 far-right rally
The New York Times
Nov. 23, 2021
While jurors found the main organizers of the deadly far-right rally in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017 liable under state law, awarding more than $25 million in damages, a CSUSB professor says it may not keep extremist groups down for long.
“While some of the messengers have been eviscerated, the more mainstream versions of their hatemongering continue to have real currency, with broad exposure guaranteeing that the violence of the far-right fringes will unfortunately continue,” said Brian Levin, the director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University, San Bernardino.
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