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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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5/18/2022
Historians on the Mainstreaming of the "Great Replacement" Myth
by HNN Staff
This conspiratorial view of a plot by elites to replace whites with nonwhite and immigrants 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: Made By History at the Washington Post
5/17/2022
Buffalo Shooting Exposes How History Shapes the Present
by Chad Williams
"Buffalo’s unique history of African American freedom, civil rights struggle and perseverance in the face of structural racism and economic neglect remind us of why Gendron targeted this particular community and why this shooting is especially heinous."
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
5/16/2022
Buffalo Shooting Reflects Deeply Rooted American Ideas
by Jesse Curtis
Labeling the so-called "Great Replacement" a conspiracy theory obscures how closely it hews to commonplace American ideas about race, nation, and who is entitled to rule.
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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: PBS News Hour
3/19/2022
Will Alabama Expunge White Supremacist Language that Remains in its Constitution?
Alabama's 1901 constitution was written expressly to enshrine white supremacy. Voters will have the chance to approve changes to its language by a ballot referendum this fall.
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SOURCE: Oregon Public Broadcasting
3/14/2022
How the KKK Sowed White Supremacy in Oregon in the 1920s
Both racist and anti-Catholic bigotry fed the rise of the Klan as a power in Oregon's politics in the early 20th century, with an estimated 50 chapters and 58,000 members.
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SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
2/11/2022
Ottawa Truck Protests are an Extension of Canada's Settler Colonial History
by Taylor Dysart
Today's Canadian protesters include many of the contemporary far right, but they all draw on a concept of freedom as individual entitlement to rule that has roots in the displacement of the nation's indigenous people.
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SOURCE: Religion Dispatches
2/10/2022
Missing from the Conversation on Christian Nationalism? Whiteness
by Peter Laarman
The extreme wing of the Christian right is attracting attention for its rhetoric equating freedom with their own power to determine the course of society. A minister argues that recent works in religious history show that it's a mistake to leave out the significance of white racial identity to that movement.
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SOURCE: AL.com
1/12/2022
Alabama's Capitol is a Crime Scene, with a 120 Year Coverup
The Alabama Capitol in Montgomery was the first seat of the Confederate government and the place where white Democrats ratified a Jim Crow constitution in 1901. You'd learn little of this by touring the museum-like building.
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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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SOURCE: AlterNet
12/8/2021
Thomas Zimmer: One-Party Theocratic Authoritarian Takeover is a Real Risk
"I think the idea that Democrats could get the support of white conservative voters by focusing on governing well, by emphasizing “pocketbook issues,” underestimates the depth of the ideological struggle that we are witnessing."
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SOURCE: WYPR
12/8/2021
Kathleen Belew on Her "Field Guide to White Supremacy"
Belew discusses the impact of the Charlottesville civil lawsuit verdict, the ongoing prosecutions of Capitol rioters, and the ongoing problem of white supremacist, neo-Nazi and right-wing extremist organizations.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
11/30/2021
The History of the "Anti-White" Victim Mantra of White Supremacy
by Ibram X. Kendi
'"Anti-racism is anti-white' is the old and explosive mantra of avowed white supremacists. It has been their organizing vehicle, fueling their rage, fueling their backlashes, fueling their delusions."
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SOURCE: New York Times
Kathleen Belew: The Mainstreaming of White Supremacy
The historian discusses the normalization of far-right ideology on Ezra Klein's podcast, featuring guest host Nicole Hemmer.
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SOURCE: The Guardian
11/10/2021
White Supremacists Attacked Democracy and Have Thus Far Faced No Consequences
by Carol Anderson
Threatening to demolish the structure of government to preserve white supremacy is a time-honored American tradition, as is escaping consequences for doing so.
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SOURCE: Forward
11/3/2021
Lipstadt "Taken Aback" by Antisemitic Symbols at Charlottesville
Deborah Lipstadt's testimony featured discussion of the historical content of antisemitism; her cross examination by defendant Christopher Caldwell included crass questions about Holocaust jokes.
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SOURCE: New York Times
11/2/2021
Charlottesville Civil Trial Brings Deborah Lipstadt into Court Against Hate Again
In a 48-page report she prepared for the trial, Lipstadt wrote that “this fear of active replacement by the Jew, derived directly from the historical underpinnings of antisemitism, is a central feature of contemporary antisemitism.”
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