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             Experts: Anti-LGBTQ rhetoric could galvanize extremists



            By REBECCA BOONE             ric has been on the rise in
            Associated Press             Idaho and elsewhere.
            BOISE,  Idaho  (AP)  —  As  "There  is  a  very  clear  rela-
            hate    speech    targeting  tionship between normaliz-
            LGBTQ  people  increases  ing this hateful content and
            among some far-right influ-  having extremist groups try
            encers  and  others  online,  to  mobilize  around  that  in
            experts  are  warning  that  hateful  actions,"  she  said.
            extremist  groups  may  see  "We can see a direct rela-
            the rhetoric as a call to ac-  tionship between the spec-
            tion.                        trum  of  anti-LGBT  rhetoric
            Such  may  have  been  the  from statehouses into these
            case when 31 members of  extremist groups."
            the neo-Nazi group Patriot  Domestic  extremist  groups
            Front  were  arrested  in  Co-  see  conservatives  as  po-
            eur d'Alene, Idaho, on Sat-  tential  allies,  Bjork-James
            urday  and  charged  with  said,  and  they’ve  found
            conspiracy to riot at a Pride  anti-LGBTQ  sentiment  is
            event,  said  Sophie  Bjork-  one of the easiest ways to
            James,  an  assistant  pro-  “build  a  broader  coalition
            fessor  in  anthropology  at  among the radical right.”
            Vanderbilt  University  who  “Unfortunately,  I  think  it  is
            researches  the  white  na-  a strategy that is working,”   James Hammond, the mayor of Coeur d'Alene, right, speaks as Lee White, the police chief of
            tionalist movement, racism  she said.                     Coeur d'Alene, looks on during a news conference at the Coeur d'Alene Library, Monday, June
            and hate crimes in the U.S.                               13, 2022, about the arrest of more than two dozen members of Patriot Front near a pride event on
                                                                      Saturday in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.
            The arrests came as a toxic       Continued on next page                                                                        Associated Press
            brew  of  anti-LGBTQ  rheto-
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