'Republicans were successful at turning the hearing into a kind of mess with Candace Owens and Morton Klein.'
The politicization of Tuesday's Congressional hearings on hate crimes and white nationalism decreased the efficacy of the House committee's questioning, experts on hate crimes and extremism told Newsweek.
"Pretty much everybody in the civil rights world have been pointing out how serious and toxic the online space has become and how it was radicalizing young white men," Beirich told Newsweek. She said that major technology companies completely ignored addressing the spread of white nationalist content on their platforms until the 2017 white supremacist and neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, which provoked widespread outrage.
Witnesses brought by Republicans shifted the conversation away from white nationalism while some Democrats questioned the testimony from the Republican witnesses and reasons for their selection. "I don’t have an issue with people examining the threat of Antifa," Levin told Newsweek."The problem is it’s a distinctly different threat that is not as mainstreamed nor as widely dissipated [as white nationalism]. Although, as we become more polarized and enter a conflictual election season, with a rise in white nationalist extremism, we will likely see a concomitant, though significantly smaller, [reaction] with respect to the violent segment Antifa.
During the hearnig, Owens said she was a victim of a hate crime. Hate crimes rose 17 percent in 2017 according to FBI data, marking the third consecutive year that bias incidents have increased.
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