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Project: Community Languages and Language Acquisition
Get PDFGonzaga University created a new teacher certification course, Community Languages and Language Acquisition, to provide preservice elementary teachers with an authentic language-learning experience with the aim of cultivating critical consciousness. We collaborated with partners from the Salish- and Marshallese- speaking communities to develop curricular modules.
See more from the Advancing Equity Grant Report at the website for the Washington State Professional Educator Standards Board
The Proud Boys Raging Righteously at the U.S. Capitol on January 6th, 2021: A Hate Group in Action
No full textRighteous rage constitutes an expression of political power for many hate groups operating currently in the United States, enticing them toward emotionally charged aggression against their adversaries. We offer a case study of one such group—the Proud Boys—in the context of their violent attack of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Rather than a momentary feeling, their righteous rage is a potent force for forming, defining, and organizing their mission to overpower their adversaries. In particular, their righteous rage is defined by (a) behavioral manifestations, (b) the emotional contagious impact of such manifestations, and (c) the centrality of raging to one’s identity as a social movement. Regarding their identity, they tend to don Proud Boy symbols on their clothes, wear helmets, and carry lethal weapons, as if aspiring to exhibit the warrior’s bravery, valor, strength, and devotion. The Proud Boys members self-position as warriors protecting the nation, Western chauvinism and (more recently) the White race. In raging righteously, the Proud Boys are absorbed with evildoers, seeking to expose their malicious past and attempting to subvert their current designs. With such absorption, the emotionally charged rationale for aggression is set in plac
Holocaust Denial, Distortion and Celebration in Memes
No full textOnce peddled painstakingly through a limited array of tools, hate and antisemitism can now be shared with millions on social media, often without consequences. Posters and pamphlets affixed to lamp posts have effectively been replaced by Internet memes, which fulfill a similar propagandizing purpose. The Toronto Holocaust Museum’s Online Hate Research and Education Project seeks to shed light on this new reality.
Of over 2900 internet memes shared by Canadians that demonstrate hate speech identified and analyzed by the Neuberger Holocaust Education Centre, nearly 6% reference the Holocaust as a theme. This report focuses on how the Holocaust is contextualized in these over 150 memes. We observe how the Holocaust, a longstanding and central theme in hateful ideologies, is downplayed, denied, and celebrated. The report identifies how the memory of the brutal and methodical killing of six million Jews continues to be weaponized today, and seeks to foster public understanding of its continued relevance in the realm of online hate.
The report deals solely with memes that demonstrate hate speech that explicitly reference the Holocaust. It breaks down each of these memes into one of three overlapping categories: Denial, Distortion, and Celebration, based on how the meme interacts with Holocaust memory. Holocaust Denial memes are ones that contain messaging defined by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) as “discourse and propaganda that deny the historical reality” of the extermination of the Jews by the Nazis. Holocaust Distortion memes are the broadest and most difficult category to define. We consider the IHRA’s definition of Holocaust Distortion as “critical threat to Holocaust memory and to fostering a world without genocide”. In practice, this is most often internet memes that demonstrate offensive and inappropriate comparisons to the Holocaust that downplay the Holocaust. Holocaust Celebration memes are memes that either celebrate the Holocaust, most often as an achievement, a necessary reaction, or as an inspiration for future genocides.
This report details how each category of meme is used to normalize antisemitism, recruit people into hate movements, and radicalize viewers through desensitization and strategic use of humor. It notes overlap and mixed messaging with Holocaust memes and describes the milieus in which memes denying and celebrating the Holocaust are spread
Intersectionality Through the Lens of the Black Lives Matter Activists: Challenges and Possibilities
No full textIn the late 1980s, the legal scholar Kimberle Crenshaw originated the term Intersectionality in her landmark article ‘Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antiracist Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics’ to critique the failure of law and social justice movements to attend to the intersectional nature of oppression faced by Black women. Crenshaw highlighted the limitations of the one-dimensional analyses that focus either on race or gender separately and emphasized the importance of acknowledging that Black women’s experiences are a complex combination of sexism and racism. Following Crenshaw’s article and coining of the term, scholars and activists developed intersectional analyses to deepen their understandings of oppression dynamics. Intersectionality refers to the ways in which different categories of a person’s identity such as race, gender, class and sexuality overlap to create complex forms of oppression. Over the last twenty years, there has been a growing interest in Intersectionality studies which can be seen as having developed into three distinct trends: A critical theory, a methodological framework, and a critical praxis.
Hate in the twenty first century is a complex and multi-layered notion; therefore, it sometimes requires an intersectional lens and practice to be understood and addressed. In this proposed presentation, the focus will be on intersectionality as a form of critical praxis which refers to how individuals or groups put intersectional knowledge into practice, a trajectory that should prove to materialize theoretical frameworks regarding intersectional oppression into a fruitful social practical framework. My data comes from semi-structured interviews with some Black Lives Matter (BLM) activists, a movement that seeks to adopt the intersectional approach as a strategy of addressing the different manifestations of oppression against Black people. This presentation will address how BLM activists understand intersectionality, how they seek to implement intersectional ideas into a practical framework, and how they address the challenges that arise from the complex practical interpretation of intersectionality. Using the lessons learned from the interviewed BLM activists, this presentation aims at: Emphasizing the importance of using an intersectional lens to understand hate in the 21st Highlighting the complexity of an intersectional approach to activism which offers a chance to discuss possible ways of improving the critical praxis aspect of intersectionality
Countering Hate Victimisation and Contributing to Social Justice: Can Organised Psychology rise to the Challenge?
No full textHate victimization is devastating to surviving victims, and the effects of these incidents are often not considered carefully enough. Research findings report that victims experience immense trauma emotionally, mentally, physically, economically, and in terms of their relationships with others. The impact of hate victimization extends beyond victims to the larger group to which they belong. Also reported is exposure to revictimization by the criminal justice and healthcare systems and a severe lack of psychosocial support to victims of hate.
Nations across the world are observing escalating patterns of hate victimization specifically targeting people based on identity factors like their race, nationality, religion, or sexual orientation. Organizations and those concerned with providing services to these victims may find themselves limited in their response capacity by constraints in their expertise and limited access to resources.
Is psychology as a discipline, science, and profession contributing meaningfully when considering the significant impact and nature of hate victimization and the menacing intensification of hate?
Organized psychology describes the collection of international, national, scientific, and professional organizations that represent psychology. Typically, researchers, educators, clinicians, consultants, and students make up the national member base. National organizations may, in turn, belong to an international structure such as the International Union of Psychological Science (IUPsyS) which currently has 82 country members. As psychology’s global voice and representative of over a million psychologists worldwide, IUPsyS has ambitions that include becoming an outward leader in providing examples of how psychology can contribute to global challenges by fostering cooperation between global, regional, and national psychology organizations; building relationships with global policymakers, science bodies, and partner organizations; and being a global, transversal facilitator for national organizations.
Organized psychology, nationally and internationally, can serve our global society by leading contributions to improving the prevention and interruption of hate incidents, as well as by disrupting the pervasive rhetoric of bigotry and intolerance that drives hate-based incidents and crimes. This requires systems analysis and considering more carefully how direct and structural violence forms an interlocking system and context of violence. This implies the need for a transnational, interdisciplinary, and collaborative approach between psychology and other disciplines as well as within psychological disciplines.
Not only is there the need for policy and legislative changes to effectively address hate victimization, but most importantly the significance of attending to the impact of hate, including hopelessness, distrust, and dignity loss. Psychology must have as its primary focus, not only the well-being of humans, but also the communities, and societies to which they belong. As a profession, discipline, science, and practice psychology cannot be detached or neutral from social justice or political systems
Understanding Hate Group Formation
Get PDFWithin the past fifteen years, there have been as many as 1002 hate groups known to be active in the United States. Political, social, and economic climates have been ripe for hate ideologies to gain increased adherents and in some cases, even overt support. Previous examinations of hate groups have assumed formation. This presentation uses simulation modeling to test Hamm’s (2004) criminological theory of collective hate and Weber’s (1947) socio-political theory of charismatic leadership. Simulation modeling is designed to create a computer simulation that simplifies people and their interactions to mimic a real world event or phenomenon. Three different experiments were tested using five models of hate group formation. These experiments test the importance of personal and societal levels of hate in group formation and the influence of charismatic leadership. These experiments also test hypotheses regarding the number of groups that form, the speed of formation and group size. Data to test these hypotheses was collected from fifteen thousand model iterations. An in-depth understanding of how hate groups form may assist in slowing the proliferation of these groups and decreasing their appeal
Understanding and Countering Hate in the Northwest
No full textScott Kennedy serves as the moderator for this session
Understanding Contemporary Antisemitism in Our Current Landscape
No full textADL has been advancing a mission of “stopping the defamation of the Jewish people and ensuring fair and just treatment to all” for over a century. ADL’s Pacific Northwest Office, based in Seattle, Washington, has been working on the ground for over 75 years to advance ADL’s mission in the region and deliver on the ground resources, programs, and services to communities impacted by hate and a wide array of stakeholders seeking to build more inclusive, safe communities. ADL’s unique vantage point of fighting not only on behalf of the Jewish community but all communities impacted by hate and advocating for civil rights gives our organization a unique expertise on the issue of antisemitism and how it connects to wider societal struggles.
As we navigate a polarizing political landscape with growing threats of antisemitism, various forms of hate, and rising domestic extremism, our workshop will seek to explore how antisemitism is manifesting in today’s climate, using ADL’s vast data points, anecdotes from local communities on the ground, and national events. We will examine how these manifestations are similar or different to the past, the connection between antisemitism and other forms of racism, and unique tools ADL is utilizing to fight this spreading form of bigotry
The Agenda (October 2023): Newsletter for the Lincoln LGBTQ+ Resource Center
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The Agenda (May 2023): Newsletter for the Lincoln LGBTQ+ Resource Center
Get PDFThe quarterly newsletter from the Lincoln LGBTQ+ Resource Center at Gonzaga