violence

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  1/29/2023
  

  Mass Shootings Reflect the Narcissism of Young Men

  by Tom Nichols

  The injured grandiosity of "failed to launch" young men is pushing them to seek outsize revenge, often using the readily available guns. 

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• SOURCE: Inquest
  1/10/2023
  

  A History of Violence in the US/Mexico Borderlands

  by Brian Behnken

  Policing both the border and Mexican American communities in the Southwest has always been entangled with white supremacist violence, the author argues in a new book. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  12/14/2022
  

  After Bruen: One Nation, Under Guns

  by Ryan Busse

  "As bad as America’s gun-violence problem is, it could be about to get much worse," says former gun industry insider turned whistleblower. The selective reading of the historical record advanced by Justice Thomas's opinion would force judges to play historian to decide cases, destabilizing gun law in many ways. 

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• SOURCE: Mother Jones
  12/15/2022
  

  The Orwellian Rise of "Suicide by Cop"

  "Suicide by Cop" emerged as a descriptive phrase in the context of a crackdown on crime and an abandonment of police accountability, making a large portion of killings by officers seem natural and unavoidable. 

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• SOURCE: Substack
  12/14/2022
  

  It's Time to Be Honest About the Partisan Nature of Gun Culture

  by Heather Cox Richardson

  "The national free-for-all in which we have 120 guns for every 100 people... is deeply tied to the political ideology of today’s Republican Party. It comes from the rise of Movement Conservatism under Ronald Reagan."

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• SOURCE: The Forum
  11/30/2022
  

  Reactionary Media are Fueling Anti-LGBTQ Violence

  by Ben Miller

  When the media give a platform to the idea that trans people living in public inherently encourages sexual abuse, violence aimed at removing them from the public will follow. The media need to take responsibility for Colorado Springs and call out icitement to violence. 

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• SOURCE: Religion Dispatches
  11/28/2022
  

  Forget Apology, the Right is Doubling Down on Inciting Violence Against LGBTQ Americans

  by Thomas Lecaque

  The campaign of encouraging stochastic terror against LGBTQ communities won't be deterred by a tragedy like the Colorado Springs killings. 

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  11/21/2022
  

  New Evidence about Texas's Porvenir Massacre

  Texas Rangers orchestrated the killing of 15 unarmed Mexican men and boys in a Texas border town in 1918. Monica Muñoz Martinez describes this as part of a pattern of state-sanctioned racist violence in the state, which her organization Refusing to Forget is working to commemorate. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  11/14/2022
  

  America's Tragic History of Campus Shootings Goes Back to 1840

  John A.G. Davis, a professor of law, was killed by a masked member of a student mob engaged in firing pistols into the air to protest for the right to carry guns on campus. 

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• SOURCE: TIME
  11/4/2022
  

  The United States of Political Violence

  From federal judges to local public health departments and school boards, violent threats against public officials are increasingly part of the political scene, according to Clarence Anthony of the National League of Cities. 

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• SOURCE: MSNBC
  10/26/2022
  

  Kidada Williams Joins Chris Hayes to Talk Reconstruction and Political Violence

  "Ex-Confederates didn't let go of slavery lightly. They did what they could to hold on to it. And so, African-Americans largely had to fight their way out of bondage."

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• SOURCE: NPR
  9/27/2022
  

  Law Professor Unearths Murder Cases from Jim Crow Era

  Margaret Burnham has been appointed by President Biden to a five-person Civil Rights Cold Case Review Board to increase public access to records of unsolved racially motivated crimes. 

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• SOURCE: CNN
  8/29/2022
  

  Fantasy Series Take a Selective Approach to Historical Accuracy as an Excuse for Sexual Violence

  Medievalist Eleanor Janega wonders whether the creators of the "Game of Thrones" universe use historical accuracy as a justification to show graphic violence; their insistence on verisimilitude flags in other areas. 

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• 8/28/2022
  

  Stephen Aron's Work Examines Moments of Intercultural Peace in the West

  by James Thornton Harris

  Both triumphalist and revisionist histories of America's westward expansion emphasize violence, and disagree about whether to understand it with pride or guilt. But what can we make of the moments where understanding and accommodation temporarily prevailed? 

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• 7/31/2022
  

  The Highland Park Horrors Won't Break the Gun Cult's Mythic Hold on America

  by Thomas Lecaque and J.L. Tomlin

  The myth of the armed citizen has little to do with the American revolution or the vision of the founders. It's all about the right's desire for a revolution to come. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  7/25/2022
  

  The Gun Industry Created a New Consumer—Now They're Killing Us

  by Ryan Busse

  Aiming at a clientele of isolated, insecure young men, the gun industry began to advertise the killing power of its products and encouraging buyers to see this power as a key to their masculine patriotic identities. 

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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: HuffPost
  6/13/2022
  

  The Families of Victims of Anti-Abortion Violence Face a Post-Roe World

  The antiabortion movement has always included a violent, terroristic element. How will the pending Supreme Court decision influence its possible revival? 

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• SOURCE: WNYC
  6/8/2022
  

  Monica Muñoz Martinez on the Border, Violence, and Uvalde

  Michelle Garcia, journalist, essayist, Soros Equality Fellow and Dobie Paisano writer-in-residence, and Monica Muñoz Martinez, associate professor of history at the University of Texas-Austin, talk about the border security apparatus at Uvalde, and the history of violence and discrimination at the South Texas and Mexican border.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  6/9/2022
  

  A Marker Recognizing Fannie Lou Hamer in Mississippi is a Step Toward Justice

  by Keisha N. Blain

  As conservatives restrict the teaching of the history of racism in America, the town of Winona, Mississippi has taken a necessary step to memorialize the state-sanctioned jailhouse beating of Fannie Lou Hamer and other activists in 1963.