VOA标准英语2012--Researchers say Racist Internet Sites Breed Hate
时间：2019-01-13 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2012年(八月)
Researchers say Racist 1 Internet Sites Breed Hate
In the Los Angeles suburb of Walnut 2, Sikhs and other community members gathered for a vigil to remember the victims of the Wisconsin shooting.
Some also tried to understand what motivated the accused shooter, Wade 3 Michael Page.
California temple member Nachhatar Singh Bhullar calls the act senseless.
"It could happen anywhere. Somebody can come anywhere and do those things," he said.
But researchers into hate groups say Page had ties to music groups with a white supremacist message and they speculate that his hatred 4 sparked the rampage.
Tim Zaal, 48, recognizes the message. He came to the Sikh temple to offer condolences, but says he once viewed all dark-skinned people with hatred. He spent a year in jail for attacking an Iranian couple and has been involved in other hate crimes. In the 1980s, he was a skinhead and organizer for the neo-Nazi group White Aryan Resistance.
"The white racialist movement was moving into a different direction. Rather than have all these great big organizations, they started to operate in these little cells," he said.
And they started organizing online.
Rick Eaton is a researcher on hate groups with the Simon Wiesenthal Center, which monitors social sites such as Twitter and Facebook, and distributes an online research app - or application - to law enforcement agencies.
He says a world of hatred, little seen by most Americans, thrives on racist music, epithets 5 and symbols.
"The name of the song is Keep Fighting, and it says their job is to keep fighting and if you don't, I'll kill you myself," he said.
Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, says through music and diatribes 6, the online sites spread ideas, attract revenue and recruits, and strengthen their commitment to a set of beliefs.
“It's empowerment, it's validation," he said.
He says, for people on the fringe, the sites create the illusion of a mass movement.
There are limits to what law enforcement can do in the absence of a crime, no matter how offensive the hate speech, says Teresa Carlson of the Federal Bureau of Investigation 7.
“Until somebody actually threatens, there’s a threat of force or violence, we can not open an investigation," she said.
Rabbi Cooper says companies that dominate the Internet need to do more.
"The social networking on the Internet could and should be doing a lot more to marginalize the message, messages and messengers of hatred and intolerance and terrorism," he said.
Meanwhile, the Sikhs of California are trying to understand how a quiet house of worship could become the scene of such a tragedy.
- a series of racist attacks 一连串的种族袭击行为
- His speech presented racist ideas under the guise of nationalism. 他的讲话以民族主义为幌子宣扬种族主义思想。
- Walnut is a local specialty here.核桃是此地的土特产。
- The stool comes in several sizes in walnut or mahogany.凳子有几种尺寸，材质分胡桃木和红木两种。
- We had to wade through the river to the opposite bank.我们只好涉水过河到对岸。
- We cannot but wade across the river.我们只好趟水过去。
- He looked at me with hatred in his eyes.他以憎恨的眼光望着我。
- The old man was seized with burning hatred for the fascists.老人对法西斯主义者充满了仇恨。
- He insulted me, using rude epithets. 他用粗话诅咒我。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- He cursed me, using a lot of rude epithets. 他用上许多粗鲁的修饰词来诅咒我。 来自辞典例句
- In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
- He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。