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SOURCE: Substack
6/12/2023
Medgar Evers's Memory Shows Us Unchecked Violent Rhetoric Will Yield Political Violence
by Claire Potter
"Medgar Evers died at the hands of people whose ideological (and, in some cases, actual) descendants threaten our democracy with violence today."
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
6/12/2023
How Must We Respond to MAGA Threats of Political Violence?
by Tom Nichols
"Finally, there’s nothing wrong with some dismissive scorn among sensible voters. These people are not 10 feet tall. They are, in fact, small and ridiculous."
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
3/16/2023
Like the Klan, January 6 Deniers Will Lose
by Adam Serwer
During Reconstruction, the rapid growth of partisan media outlets made it impossible to tell whether stories of Klan atrocities were true or "fake news." Elaine Frantz Parsons explains how the reality of the Klan became established.
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SOURCE: New York Times
11/19/2022
There are No "Lone Wolves"
Building on the work of Kathleen Belew and others, the Times editorial board argues that recent episodes of racial terrorism are part of a global white nationalist movement.
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SOURCE: The Intercept
11/6/2022
Post-9/11 Wars Created the Foot Solders of Far-Right Violence
Historian Kathleen Belew says that war affects not only veterans, but makes an entire society more receptive to the possibility of violence.
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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: New York Times
10/31/2022
The Line Between Rhetoric and Political Violence is Fading Fast
by Matthew Dallek
By rhetorically signalling contempt for the government, public institutions, and their opponents, the leaders of the Republican Party are failing to maintain the separation of politics and violence.
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SOURCE: The New Republic
11/1/2022
Do "We" Have a Political Violence Problem?
A longitudinal study by the University of Maryland suggests that even looking back to the 1960s, the right has been much more likely to promote violence as an instrument of politics.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
8/25/2022
Containing the Far Right Means Explaining Why a Democratic, Nonviolent Society is Better
Nicole Hemmer and Post columnist Greg Sargent discuss the echoes of the 1990s and Oklahoma City in the rise in violent rhetoric on the right and what can be done to check it.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
8/15/2022
The New Era of Political Violence is Here
by Tom Nichols
Rather than civil war, the emerging threat in America is heavily-armed individuals informed by mass delusion.
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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."