vigilantism

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  6/15/2022
  

  The Right Celebrated Bernhard Goetz as the Kyle Rittenhouse of the 80s

  by Pia Beumer

  In the context of economic turmoil, urban crisis, and racial division, a broad swath of the American public made Goetz a heroic symbol of restored white masculinity after he shot four Black teens who asked him for money on the New York subway.

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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: 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."

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• 11/11/2021
  

  Kyle's Tears

  by Joe Lowndes

  Kyle Rittenhouse's demeanor at trial shows the difficulty of his case; he presents a figure that normalizes and sanitizes the violent core of the vigilante movement he represents.

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• SOURCE: Gawker
  11/16/2021
  

  Kyle Rittenhouse is an American

  by Patrick Blanchfield

  "The impulse to reconstruct that night’s chaos as though watching a 21st century Rashomon, is a trap."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/4/2021
  

  We are Becoming a Nation of Vigilantes

  by Jon Michaels and David Noll

  The Texas abortion ban, which outsources enforcement to private citizens suing in civil courts, is the logical extension of the politics of right-populist outrage and harkens back to extraconstitutional traditins of vigilante justice. 

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• SOURCE: CNN
  2/5/2021
  

  What Kyle Rittenhouse's Fate Reveals about Law and Order

  by Nicole Hemmer

  Historically, white vigilantism, especially against the demands of minorities for civil and economic equality, has been a key component of the politics of "law and order."

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• 10/9/2020
  

  FBI Arrests Plotters to Kidnap Michigan Governor, Highlighting Trump's "Liberate Michigan" Rhetoric

  On October 8, the FBI announced multiple arrests in a plot to kidnap Michigan's Democratic Governor Gretchen Whitmer, whose support for lockdown measures to fight COVID-19 moved Trump to call on right-wing mobs to "Liberate Michigan." 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  9/9/2020
  

  Our Summer of White Male Supremacy

  by Ibram X. Kendi

  "Adherents of Trumpism think they are facing a choice between white male supremacy and 'anarchy'."

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  8/28/2020
  

  White Vigilantes Have Always Had A Friend In Police

  American Studies scholar Nick Estes argues that the acceptance of vigilante groups by the police reflects a long history of cooperation between official law enforcement and informal groups to defend white supremacy. 

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• Trayvon Martin and Edward Snowden

  by Vicente L. Rafael

  Could we say that within the particular imperial and racial nexus we find ourselves in, that Snowden, despite his obvious differences from Trayvon, might also share his fate?