Parents and teachers in Canada will now have an “educational toolkit” to help them if they notice a child being groomed by a hate group. Parents and teachers in Canada will now have an “educational toolkit” to help them if they notice a child being groomed by a hate group. The new resource, launched by the Canadian government in partnership with the Canadian Anti-Hate Network, intends to combat the growing prevalence of hate groups online. Members of those groups, most of whom were raised in the digital age, are becoming more adept at recruiting. For example, the neo-Nazi terror group The Base, as well as other neo-Nazi groups, have used meme websites to recruit young people, usually male teenagers, into their movement. Authorities are still figuring out ways to effectively combat the problem. The toolkit can be found online free of charge here and contains modules that run teachers and parents through a variety of subjects related to hate groups, such as ideologies and recruitment techniques. One of the sections presents scenarios and offers ways to handle to them from a variety of perspectives. Elizabeth Simons, the deputy director for the Canadian Anti-Hate Network, said that the examples were all taken from real-world events that had occurred in Canada.
via vice: Canada Has a New Toolkit to Stop Kids From Being Groomed by Neo-Nazis
