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Hateful.

16 statements. Treats a whole group as lesser, dangerous, or not fully human.

Calls for violence 3 Threatening 5 Hateful 16 Stigmatizing 6
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For an audience of six million, she said today's Jews are impostors wearing the religion as a costume.

Who it targets

Jewish people

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The claim that Sharia is taking over America moved through Congress, two state houses, two attorneys general, and a primary ballot in five months.

Who it targets

Muslims in the United States

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An Islamic group announced 300 outreach booths at the tournament. One site called it the opening move of a conquest.

Who it targets

Muslims as a whole

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A state government mailed every California voter a pamphlet describing non-Jews as livestock to be enslaved.

Who it targets

Jewish people

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A sitting lieutenant governor said he hates Islam and called on others to hate it too.

Who it targets

Muslims in Indiana and beyond

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A sitting party leader answered a photo of players praying with an obscenity about God.

Who it targets

Muslims, by way of the Moroccan squad’s prayer

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Scandinavian fans looked well behaved on television, and that became a claim about who else the country lets in.

Who it targets

Immigrants generally, set against the Norwegians and Swedes held up as the good kind

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A referee decision against Egypt turned into a claim that Jews run FIFA.

Who it targets

Jewish people, through “Zionists” standing in for them

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A joke about the 2030 World Cup put Israeli soldiers on the pitch shooting people in the face.

Who it targets

Jewish people and Israelis, through Israel and the IDF used interchangeably

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A conservative magazine described immigration to Europe as a flood putting Western civilization in mortal danger.

Who it targets

Immigrants to Europe, treated as one undifferentiated mass

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A prominent science blogger called the Defense Secretary a pig, scarcely human.

Who it targets

The Defense Secretary, as a stand-in for the administration

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A fringe site used explicit antisemitic slurs and claimed Jews control finance and Congress.

Who it targets

Jews, referred to collectively with slurs

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An anti-Muslim blogger told Western women not to marry Muslim men, generalising from one murder case.

Who it targets

Muslim men

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A conspiracy site's front page called Israeli society deeply depraved.

Who it targets

Israeli and Jewish society, treated as a single whole

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The same blogger called New York's mayor a jihadi and a Jew-hating Muslim over a legal question.

Who it targets

Muslims, with the mayor used as the stand-in

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A blogger attributed fraud cases involving Muslim migrants to the Quran itself.

Who it targets

Muslim migrants

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