political violence

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  7/21/2022
  

  The Dangerous Misunderstanding of America's History of Mob Action

  by Stefan Lund

  Contrary to the protestations of January 6th apologists, mob action in America has usually worked to suppress, rather than defend, democracy.

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• 6/15/2022
  

  Far Right Extremism, Paramilitarization, and Misogyny – Statement of Alexandra Stern to the January 6 Committee

  by Alexandra Minna Stern

  The alt-right groups represented at the Capitol on January 6 drew organizing power from online communities where grievance politics around race and gender flourished. Key features were heavy doses of irony that gave deniability to violent rhetoric and extreme misogyny. 

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• SOURCE: CNN
  6/15/2022
  

  "Patriot Front" Plan to Attack Pride Shows Connections of White Supremacy and Anti-LGBTQ Politics

  The arrest of neonazis in Idaho who planned an attack on a Pride event echoes a 1937 raid on a Miami gay nightclub by the KKK, says historian Julio Capo, Jr. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  6/2/2022
  

  Another Tragic Eruption of "Great Replacement" Violence

  by Glenn C. Altschuler and Stuart M. Blumin

  "While the specific targets and methods of spreading this theory may be new, White native-born Americans worrying about being replaced is not. And history demonstrates that the theory has been repeatedly used to legitimize discrimination and deadly violence."

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• SOURCE: African American Policy Forum
  5/18/2022
  

  African American Policy Forum Statement on Buffalo Massacre

  "Racial terrorism would die out with the generations weaned on it—or so the more hopeful among us believed."

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• SOURCE: NBC News
  5/18/202
  

  Buffalo Shooting Centuries in Making, Say Historians of Slavery and Reconstruction

  Manisha Sinha and Bernard Powers link the mass killing to longstanding repression of Black political power, and the justification of violence for that purpose. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  5/16/2022
  

  White Power, White Violence, and the Open-Source Manual for Terrorism

  by Kathleen Belew

  The Buffalo shooter's manifesto doesn't need to be coherent or reality-based; its function will be to give instruction to future white supremacist terrorists within growing networks.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  5/18/2022
  

  "Great Replacement" Shows how Many Americans Have Embraced Whites-Only Democracy

  by Adam Serwer

  Whether they blame a secret cabal of elites or the Democratic Party, proponents of "replacement" rhetoric share a belief that legitimate citizenship is racially exclusive and that legitimate elections require white voters to get what they want, echoing anti-immigrant and eugenics rhetoric of the early 20th century.

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• 5/18/2022
  

  Historians on the Mainstreaming of the "Great Replacement" Myth

  by HNN Staff

  This conspiratorial claim of a plot by elites to replace whites with nonwhite and immigrant voters has moved from the far-right fringe to cable news and appears to have played a part in the radicalization of several mass shooters. Historians discuss what it is and what it means. 

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  5/15/2022
  

  Isaac Chotiner Interviews Kathleen Belew on White Power and the Buffalo Mass Shooting

  "The idea is simply that many different kinds of social change are connected to a plot by a cabal of élites to eradicate the white race, which people in this movement believe is their nation."

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• SOURCE: NPR
  5/16/2022
  

  Kathleen Belew: Buffalo Massacre Likely Driven by "Great Replacement" Myth

  "A man accused of killing 10 people in Buffalo, New York was allegedly motivated by a racist doctrine known as 'replacement theory.' It's just a new name for an old set of racial hatreds, Kathleen Belew told NPR."

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  5/15/2022
  

  Buffalo Mass Shooting Demands We Think About American Racism

  by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

  The gunman's manifesto shows the dangerous convergence on the right of anti-Black racism and a belief in white persecution. It also shows why the right is working so hard to fight teaching about racism in history classes. 

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• SOURCE: Governing
  3/13/2022
  

  A Brief History of Violence in the Capitol

  Historian Joanne Freeman explains that the threat of violence has been a useful tool for minority factions in the government to thwart opposition, both in the pre-Civil War era and today.   

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• SOURCE: Dame
  3/14/2022
  

  How Disinformation Powers Vigilantism

  Right wing misinformation has linked the nation's borders with race war discourse that encourages vigilantism, according to historian Carly Goodman. 

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• SOURCE: Reuters
  2/15/2022
  

  Death Threats and Intimidation on the Rise Against Local School Boards

  As national conservative groups have mobilized voters and resources around the idea that schools are under seige by radical leftist indoctrination, some school board members have experienced death threats and other serious harassment. 

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• SOURCE: Saturday Evening Post
  1/5/2021
  

  The Dangerous “Patriotism” of the January 6 Insurrection

  by Ben Railton

  The participants in the attack on the Capitol a year ago reflected a "mythic patriotism" founded on the belief in an authentic, white, Christian nation under attack by enemies dangerous enough to justify any measures in opposition. 

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• SOURCE: YouTube
  1/5/2022
  

  Kathleen Belew: Is Trump Laying Groundwork for a 2024 Coup?

  Historian Kathleen Belew joins Hari Sreenivasan and Bill Moyers to discuss a new documentary, "Preserving Democracy." 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  1/6/2022
  

  Militias Were Hiding in Plain Sight Before 1/6. They're Still a Threat

  by Kathleen Belew

  The January 6 attack on the Capitol and the election results was not a one-off coup attempt; it was a recruitment event for the militant far right which increasingly threatens democracy.

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• 1/6/2021
  

  A Year Later: Our Tattered and Fragile Democracy

  by James D. Zirin

  American political institutions face a crisis: can they defend themselves against a growing movement that will deploy violence to achieve its goals, or will January 6 become the new normal? 

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  12/17/2021
  

  America as a Tactical Gun Culture

  by Chad Kautzer

  "Vigilantism is fueled by an individualist notion of sovereignty more dangerous than any military-grade weaponry. It rejects the freedom of others as equal to one’s own and views any attempt to support such equality as tyranny."