{"id":66198,"date":"2019-02-28T17:24:10","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T17:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2019\/02\/28\/white-nationalism-remains-a-problem-for-the-military-poll-shows\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T12:27:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T12:27:22","slug":"white-nationalism-remains-a-problem-for-the-military-poll-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2019\/02\/28\/white-nationalism-remains-a-problem-for-the-military-poll-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"White nationalism remains a problem for the military, poll suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

WASHINGTON \u2014 After a year of military officials publicly emphasizing the dangers of white nationalism in the ranks<\/a>, a poll of Military Times readers<\/a> found little change in the prevalence of those racist views among troops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The issue of extremists in the ranks gained national attention again recently after the arrest of Coast Guard Lt. Christopher Hasson<\/a>, a former active-duty Marine and Army guardsman who was plotting a mass murder of political and media figures. Investigators have found evidence that he was a long-time white nationalist who held violently racist views even before his first enlistment in the military.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About 22 percent of service members who participated in the survey last fall<\/a> said they have seen signs of white nationalism or racist ideology within the armed forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s roughly the same level as results from the 2017 Military Times poll<\/a>, conducted in the weeks following a clash between white supremacist groups and counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, that sparked a national conversation about right-wing extremists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among non-white service members in the poll, incidents of racism and racist ideology increased from 42 percent in 2017 to more than half those surveyed in 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\t