hate group

noun

A social group that advocates and practices hate speech and/or hate crimes.

Meanings

nounhate group (plural hate groups)

plural hate groups

  1. A social group that advocates and practices hate speech and/or hate crimes.

    “While groups such as the Southern Poverty Law Center say we are terrorists and we are a hate group, at the grass-roots, small-town America, just normal, casual USA, everybody knows the truth,” the man says.

    2016 August 31, Katie Mettler, “Why SPLC says White Lives Matter is a hate group but Black Lives Matter is not”, in Washington Post, →ISSN
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Chicago

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