People expect that these kinds of incidents won't happen in schools and universities.
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Americans ignore the threat of these groups at their peril. Eleven years ago, a pair of extremists carried out a mass killing that included the murder of 19 children. If we're not careful, it could very well happen again.Mark Potok
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Most agree that the prosecution of killers whose identity was an open secret has had a salutary effect. But with witnesses and suspects dying off, there are not likely to be any more successful prosecutions, said Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center, which built a monument to civil rights martyrs in Montgomery, Ala. The point of doing all of this is so that we as a society can move forward, ... And the time is really coming when we really are going to turn and face the future.
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You often see these groups spring up in response to demographic changes. Some people feel threatened, and they look for a group to blame.
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I don't see any evidence that these fires are hate crimes. Anti-Christian crimes are exceedingly rare in the South. It's more likely to be teenagers or a mentally ill person.
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It's very likely they didn't have direct or public connections to hate groups. It's very likely this was a troubled young man who was attracted to images of power.
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