America is fighting for its soul. The Obama era has alienated and angered a growing number of evangelical Christians. I’ve spent nearly six months following two of the country’s most radical Christian hate groups. Hannah Livingstone, America’s Hate Preachers, BBC 2018
Pastor Steven Anderson’s sermon The Sinful Nation of France was widely condemned … one of America’s most notorious hate preachers. ibid.
American law allows anyone to express racial and religious hatred in any religious space. ibid.
The preachers were willing to shout at anyone who didn’t appear to find their model of Christian behaviour. ibid.
In December 2015 14 people were murdered in San Bernardino by home-grown Islamists. Life for American Muslims would never be the same again as hate and violence was directed at them like never before. United States of Hate: Muslims Under Attack, BBC 2018
It’s become normal to label a whole community as terrorists. ibid.
55% of Americans have expressed some kind of negative views towards Islam. ibid.
After Charlottesville Frontline and Pro Publica reporter A C Thompson investigates who was behind the violent riot and uncovers a network across America that goes beyond Charlottesville. Frontline: Documenting Hate: Charlottesville, PBS 2018
Charlottesville, Virginia, August 12th 2017: Charlottesville was a crime scene … The largest gathering of White Supremacists in a generation: they called it Unite the Right. ibid.
I’m able to identify several more RAM [Rise Above Movement] members. ibid.
For ten minutes today Chuck didn’t hate me; I’d forgotten what that felt like. Better Call Saul s3e1: Mabel, Saul to Kimberly, AMC 2017
A violent new ideology radicalising young men online: Incel: Involuntary celibate: a person, especially a man, who identifies as being frustrated by the lack of opportunities to have sex or relationships. Driven by rising anger and misogyny online. Inside the Secret World of Incels, caption, BBC 2019
‘He [frustrated young man] attempted to get into one of the sorority houses with a tremendous amount of ammunition … How do you associate sexual frustration and rejection to a ton of guns and weapons and ammunitions and killing four people you have no idea who they are?’ ibid. Dan Cooper
‘We live right now in the age of the hate crime.’ ibid. researcher
‘If I’m not in the top 20% then there’s no reason in me even trying in the first place.’ ibid. Incel
‘That whole feeling that you are on the outside of the group … I am so alone. It hurts a little bit.’ ibid.
‘It’s a living fucking nightmare that will never end.’ ibid.
Sometimes it’s fun to just go wild and rape a hundred girls. The Warwick Uni Rape Chat Scandal, social media, BBC 2019
Which girl at Uni would you like to pin down the most? ibid.
The pure unadulterated misogyny that runs through that I would never class as banter. ibid. Dianne Whitfield, Coventry Rape and Sexual Abuse Centre
11 Warwick students temporarily suspended after group chat exposed. ibid. The Boar 8th May 2019, Warwick uni newspaper
I’m travelling to the extreme edge of modern British masculinity. Fifty years after women began a march for equal rights, the battle of the sexes is being fought on a new front, but this isn’t by women, it’s by young men. I want to know why so many young guys feel overlooked, overly judged, and under attack. And as growing numbers take to the internet and social media becomes a weapon of hate, I want to find out why a new generation of men feel the real victims of sex discrimination are guys. Reggie Yates’ Extreme UK: Men at War, BBC 2019
Many of the men I met at the seminar claimed they had to hide their views and the faces for fear of repercussions at work. ibid.
There seems to be a weird sense of paranoia in this world. ibid.
I’m just not sure why. ibid.
They hated the enemy. They, not all of them, hated the Catholic community that they believed supported and harboured the IRA. Their hatred of the enemy was visceral. Peter Taylor, My Journey Through the Troubles, re British army in Northern Ireland, BBC 2019
Nicolae Ceausescu: once revered throughout Romania and the West, he stole power by cunning and ruled by oppression. Ceausescu’s tainted genius and his wife Elena’s influence were finally extinguished by a hasty execution. History’s Most Hated s1e2: Ceausescu
Ceausescu’s criminal activities often took him to jail. ibid.
‘He was a Machiavellian genius.’ ibid. historian
Ceausescu was proclaimed First Secretary of the Communist Party and the country’s leader. ibid.
‘It is the first visit of a president of the United States to Romania.’ ibid. Nixon
Ceausescu was a cheat. He was a passionate game hunter and a terrible shot … He had begun to live in an unreal world where he couldn’t bear to lose at anything. ibid.
Ceausescu’s bouts of paranoia meant that he increasingly relied on his wife … Her influence was a malign one. ibid.
It is the dawn of the 13th century over Asia. A fierce storm reaches deep within the heart of the continent. Growing to a tempest, it spills over into China devastating one of the most ancient cultures on Earth. Then, gathering momentum, its violent fury vents westward laying waste Afghanistan and Persia. Riding this bitter winds are unstoppable hordes mercilessly carving out an empire that will know no equal in all of human history. History’s Most Hated s1e3: Genghis Khan: Terror & Conquest
Known by many terms: madman and genius, bloodthirsty warrior and brilliant politician, architect of nation and destroyer of civilisations, he was all of these. His name: Genghis Khan. ibid.
He was born somewhere in the Steppes in about the year 1165. ibid.
In the heart of Berlin children play innocently over what was once Adolf Hitler’s death tomb. It was here in the Fuhrer-bunker on April 30th 1945 that Hitler made the final preparation for his suicide. Outside in a devastating final assault on the heart of the Third Reich, the Russian army closed in on the Fuhrer. Hitler’s death brought to an end his dream of a thousand-year Reich: it lasted only twelve years but changed the world. History’s Most Hated s1e4: Hitler & Stalin
They were both mass murderers. Hitler was responsible for nearly ten million deaths in The Holocaust … Stalin murdered more than twenty million of his own people. ibid.
Both Hitler and Stalin suffered from inferiority complexes. ibid.
Adolf sold his paintings on the streets. It is interesting that he only painted landscapes, never people. Two years in a row Hitler applied to and was rejected by the prestigious Academy of Fine Arts … The Academy told him he had no aptitude for painting. ibid.
The same cruelty and sadism of Stalin’s political life dominated his family life, especially his relations with his second wife Nadia. ibid.
Hitler’s relationships with women were equally troubled. ibid.
For a brief period of time Napoleon seemed to be all things to all people. Perhaps the greatest military commander ever. Was also a pre-eminent head of state. History’s Most Hated s1e5: Napoleon Bonaparte
Now 15 years old Napoleon next moved to Paris in 1784. He continued his education here at one of France’s foremost military academies, the prestigious Ecole Militaire. Almost from the beginning people commented on his enormous ambition. ibid.
He met an astonishing woman who would change his life for ever: Josephine … Back in Paris, Josephine was having numerous affairs. ibid.
He [Napoleon] seized control of the government in a bloodless coup on November 9th 1999, becoming the First Consul of France. ibid.
At his coronation Napoleon took the crown himself. ibid.
Of the 600,000 men he had come with [to Russia], 500,000 died, deserted or were captured. Back in Europe he met with more disaster. ibid.
In Paris, Louis was stunned to hear that Bonaparte had returned. ibid.
Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia, ruler of a vast land steeped in tradition. Tradition he was determined to shatter as quickly as possible … He married a commoner and made her his empress … But there was a dark side to this Tsar. The complexities and contradictions of Peter’s character and the sheer scope and adventure of his life have fascinated generation after generation for nearly 300 years. History’s Most Hated s1e6: Peter the Great