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Do the ADL and SPLC Disproportionately Police White (but not Black) Movements?
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| Abstract | Anecdotal reports suggest that, in their coverage of racial identity-related issues, English-language online news sites treat White nationalism and Black nationalism far differently. A previous study ...(Wroblewski, 2024) already demonstrated that articles containing expressions of non-self-loathing White identity feature provocative, highly subjective and negative nouns and adjectives like “racist” and “supremacist” as the most frequently occurring vocabulary. However, little attention has been paid to providing a corpus-driven, side-by-side comparison of media treatment of White nationalism vs. Black nationalism. The present study used the News on the Web (NOW) Corpus to elucidate any tendency for the Anglophone news media to disproportionately focus on policing White, but not Black, nationalist groups or ideologies, using number of references to, or quotes from, the two most influential “social justice”/“civil rights” watchdog groups in the U.S. – the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) – as a metric. The results seem to support the hypothesis that a great many more resources – at least in terms of number of news pieces – are devoted to monitoring potential “hate groups” when they are White.show more |
| Table of Contents | 1. Introduction 2. Methods 3. Results 4. Discussion |
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| Created Date | 2025.11.17 |
| Modified Date | 2025.11.18 |