Polarization & Extremism Research & Innovation Lab (PERIL)

6 days left! https://lnkd.in/eqSxP6BT Together, we can overcome the growing threat of hate. Your most generous financial gift will help us continue this critical work and make a lasting impact.? ? This year alone, PERIL's impact reached over 10.2K active users on our website, and over 20.6K downloads of our resources. We facilitated training for over 25 schools and organizations this year and reached 1K+ participants in our webinars and in-person sessions. We've also contributed to over 59 media interviews and articles. Let's keep this impact growing! #GivingTuesdayCountdown

Pasha Dashtgard and Cynthia Miller-Idriss discuss leaving the #manosphere: is there any getting out? Thank you to Teen Vogue for addressing #toxicmasculinity ?? "Through their four-year relationship, Danny became more and more entrenched in the manosphere and began sharing his views with Maisie, she says. Those included that women shouldn’t work because they can’t emotionally handle it and that she should allow him to choose who she votes for. Maisie says that Danny entered the manosphere through the realm of self-help, which?Cynthia Miller-Idriss, a sociology professor at American University who specializes in extremism, says is “a great example of how radicalization works." “On the surface, it’s all under the guise of self-help, dating and relationships, looks-maxxing,” Miller-Idriss says. Once they’ve entered the community looking for help, the “dialogue, tone, and tenor changes,” with the blame for any of their issues belonging at the feet of women and the feminist movement. Young men can be drawn in through something as simple as looking for workout plans or a good cologne, Miller-Idriss says. That’s how it was with Danny – he started with Jordan Petersen videos on how to break big tasks into smaller ones and by the time Maisie ended her relationship with him, she says he was screaming at her that feminism was taking over the world and ruining everything." "Pasha Dashtgard, an assistant professor at?the Polarization & Extremism Research and Innovation Lab, says this is a common entry point. “They start their conversations with, ‘men are in crisis and no one’s talking about it. It’s like, that’s true, men are in crisis and we should be talking about it… [but] that opens up, ideologically, the door for them to be like ‘and now, here are the solutions’ and it’s this horrible, toxic nonsense.”? Read the entire article here: https://lnkd.in/eVSmfHuQ

#GivingTuesday2024 occurs on December 3, but we are making our ask early due to urgency! Together, we can overcome the growing threat of hate.?Your most generous financial gift will help us continue this critical work and make a lasting impact. This year alone, PERIL's impact reached over?10.2K?active users on our website, and over?20.6K?downloads of our resources. We facilitated training for over?25?schools and organizations this year and reached?1K+?participants in our webinars and in-person sessions. We've also contributed to over?59?media interviews and articles. Let's keep this impact growing! Donate here:?https://lnkd.in/eqSxP6BT #extremismprevention #antihate

Check out the new site for our DUCC (Developing & Using Critical Comprehension) Program! With the new characters and curriculum strategy, PERIL expands our work to the #kto5 #education space in creating those safe discussions about #electionguidance, #preventingextremism and #antihate. Let us know your thoughts! https://lnkd.in/e4HsJvTb

SPLC and PERIL created resources through our CARE program that offer young people, their families and caregivers, educators and administrators, and other allies and community members a range of actionable knowledge. Some resources listed below utilize trauma-informed approaches to help you care for yourself and those in your life who are experiencing a range of negative emotions. Some offer strategies for the prevention of radicalization and extremism as well as sustaining support for those who feel targeted by such incidents of hate and extremism. Please view the resources and the statement of incident and harm here: https://lnkd.in/es86XtvJ Lastly, some are for those in education institutions who must respond to this incident with evidence-based solutions and best practices for supporting affected individuals, colleagues, and others.

What impact does the #2024Election have on hate speech? Cynthia Miller-Idriss talks to WBUR's Here and Now Newsroom. Check out the interview here: https://lnkd.in/gZjfMe2C

Reminder, this event occurs tomorrow evening! Dr. Brian Hughes chats with Adrienne Massanari on the launch of her new book, Media Unmasked: Gaming Democracy. Register here: https://lnkd.in/eDPCTrAP

SPLC and PERIL created resources through our CARE program that offer young people, their families and caregivers, educators and administrators, and other allies and community members a range of actionable knowledge. Some resources listed below utilize trauma-informed approaches to help you care for yourself and those in your life who are experiencing a range of negative emotions. Some offer strategies for the prevention of radicalization and extremism as well as sustaining support for those who feel targeted by such incidents of hate and extremism. Please view the resources and the statement of incident and harm here: https://lnkd.in/es86XtvJ Lastly, some are for those in education institutions who must respond to this incident with evidence-based solutions and best practices for supporting affected individuals, colleagues, and others.

We are all processing in a post-election week. How have extremist movements received the news of President Trump’s coming second term? PERIL's Cynthia Miller-Idriss responds: "The win animated extremist talk about their potential?role in dismantling democratic institutions, an ominous sign for researchers who saw Trump’s fiery rhetoric inspire vigilantism during his first presidency. "That legitimized, normalized and sort of gave permission to extremist groups — who are really white-supremacist and deeply misogynistic — to come out of the woodwork and feel validated,” said Cynthia Miller-Idriss, who leads the Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab at American University. “We’re seeing that type of rhetoric again.” Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/eMteYW2x

Very much looking forward to participating in the 2024 Holberg Debate next month in Bergen, Norway- tune in via livestream on YouTube. Elliott O'Donovan Polarization & Extremism Research & Innovation Lab (PERIL) School of Public Affairs, American University American University School of Education Princeton University Press