hate group

English

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Noun

hate group (plural hate groups)

  1. A social group that advocates and practices hate speech and/or hate crimes.
    • 2016 August 31, Katie Mettler, “Why SPLC says White Lives Matter is a hate group but Black Lives Matter is not”, in The Washington Post‎[1], Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 15 July 2025:
      “While groups such as the Southern Poverty Law Center say we are terrorists and we are a hate group, at the grass-roots, small-town America, just normal, casual USA, everybody knows the truth,” the man says.

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