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26 statements aimed at a group defined by race, religion, or where they came from.

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The Islamic State's spokesman told followers to keep attacking Jewish and Christian targets, and pointed at the dead as proof it works.

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Jewish people and Christians

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He filmed himself on a New York street leading a chant about a massacre of Jews.

Who it targets

Jewish people

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A streamer with a million followers told them to identify every American Jew and plan to arrest them.

Who it targets

American Jews

ThreateningProtected groups
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A single post recast every Muslim on earth as under orders to kill Jews and Christians.

Who it targets

Muslims as a whole

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In front of a crowd estimated at 60,000, he said he would stop Islam and that it was time for many Muslims to leave.

Who it targets

Muslims in Britain

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A riot with about two dozen arrests became an argument for deporting four generations of Dutch citizens.

Who it targets

Dutch citizens of Moroccan descent, including people born and raised in the Netherlands

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For an audience of six million, she said today's Jews are impostors wearing the religion as a costume.

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Jewish people

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The claim that Sharia is taking over America moved through Congress, two state houses, two attorneys general, and a primary ballot in five months.

Who it targets

Muslims in the United States

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An Islamic group announced 300 outreach booths at the tournament. One site called it the opening move of a conquest.

Who it targets

Muslims as a whole

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A state government mailed every California voter a pamphlet describing non-Jews as livestock to be enslaved.

Who it targets

Jewish people

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A sitting lieutenant governor said he hates Islam and called on others to hate it too.

Who it targets

Muslims in Indiana and beyond

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A sitting party leader answered a photo of players praying with an obscenity about God.

Who it targets

Muslims, by way of the Moroccan squad’s prayer

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Scandinavian fans looked well behaved on television, and that became a claim about who else the country lets in.

Who it targets

Immigrants generally, set against the Norwegians and Swedes held up as the good kind

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A referee decision against Egypt turned into a claim that Jews run FIFA.

Who it targets

Jewish people, through “Zionists” standing in for them

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A joke about the 2030 World Cup put Israeli soldiers on the pitch shooting people in the face.

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Jewish people and Israelis, through Israel and the IDF used interchangeably

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A conservative magazine described immigration to Europe as a flood putting Western civilization in mortal danger.

Who it targets

Immigrants to Europe, treated as one undifferentiated mass

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A fringe site used explicit antisemitic slurs and claimed Jews control finance and Congress.

Who it targets

Jews, referred to collectively with slurs

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An anti-Muslim blogger told Western women not to marry Muslim men, generalising from one murder case.

Who it targets

Muslim men

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A conspiracy site's front page called Israeli society deeply depraved.

Who it targets

Israeli and Jewish society, treated as a single whole

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The same blogger called New York's mayor a jihadi and a Jew-hating Muslim over a legal question.

Who it targets

Muslims, with the mayor used as the stand-in

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A blogger attributed fraud cases involving Muslim migrants to the Quran itself.

Who it targets

Muslim migrants

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The American squad was announced, and one post treated the 26 names as a choice between two racial stereotypes.

Who it targets

Black and Hispanic players on the roster, and by extension Black and Hispanic Americans

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A podcast covered a birthright citizenship ruling as a win for what it called the Third World.

Who it targets

Immigrants and their American-born children

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Indiana's lieutenant governor called for banning the Muslim call to prayer, then warned about the rise of Islam.

Who it targets

Muslims, through the presence of the religion itself

StigmatizingProtected groups
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A podcaster said women's suffrage stole half his vote, and that his wife casts it back for him.

Who it targets

Women

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A 2014 column arguing that soccer viewership proves the wrong people were let in got republished mid-tournament.

Who it targets

Immigrants and their American-born descendants

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