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What is the online equivalent of a burning cross?

  • Written by Jessie Daniels, Professor, City University of New York
imageOnline hate isn't always as easy to spot as it might appear.Lukasz Stefanski/Shutterstock.com

White supremacy is woven into the tapestry of American culture, online and off – in both physical monuments and online domain names. A band of tiki-torch-carrying white nationalists gathered first online, and then at the site of a Jim Crow-era...

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