#1274 From White Supremacy to the White Power Movement
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 22 May 2019
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Air Date: 5/21/2019
Today we take a look at the recent trend of White Nationalist and White Power-related violence, the history of where it's coming from and why the US government does next to nothing to combat it.
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: Radical White Terrorism with Nesrine Malik - Intercepted with Jeremy Scahill - Air Date 3-20-19
Global anti-muslim and anti-immigrant hate is growing. Mainstream politicians are fueling it. The media and government are failing the people.
Ch. 2: Tim Wise on New Zealand, Violence of White Privilege - The Chauncey DeVega Show - Air Date 3-16-19
White supremacists see Trump's influence, and think he's on the right track but not doing good enough.
The founding of our nation is in slavery and violence. The news doesn't get it right, and can't figure out why a white many would burn down black churches.
Ch. 4: Radical White Terrorism with Kathleen Belew - Intercepted with Jeremy Scahill - Air Date 3-20-19
Explaining the tactics and strategy of the White Power movement to attempt to overthrow the government, then the world.
White Nationalism flourishes in our military as a recruiting ground for future white power terrorists
Ch. 6: Documenting Hate - New American Nazis - Frontline Film Audio Track - Air Date 11-26-18
White supremacist groups appeal to veterans, loners, conservatives, and they infiltrate military and police.
VOICEMAILS
Ch. 7: White supremacists know the value of electing people of color - Dave from Olympia, WA
Ch. 8: Algorithms & soup cans - Alan from Connecticut
Ch. 9: Encouraging John to call in more - Alan from Connecticut
Ch. 10: To Corey from New Jersey on the destructive nature of systemic individualism - Abdul from DC
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 11: Final comments on why there’s no contradiction for some racists to have voted for Obama before switching to Trump
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| 0:00.0 | This program is made possible by members and donors, so huge thanks to everyone who |
| 0:07.0 | contributes on Patreon to support the show. |
| 0:09.8 | And now welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of the Left podcast in which we shall |
| 0:14.1 | learn about the recent trend of white nationalist and white power related violence, the history |
| 0:20.0 | of where it's coming from, and why the US government does next to nothing to combat it. |
| 0:25.2 | Yesterday come from Intercepted, the Chancidovega show, the breakdown with Sean King, redacted |
| 0:31.4 | tonight with Lee Camp and Frontline. |
| 0:40.4 | In the aftermath of the 9-11 attacks, there was an immediate uptick in anti-Muslim rhetoric, |
| 0:46.1 | hate crimes spiked, and the US went to war against, quote, radical Islamic terrorism. |
| 0:52.3 | Nearly two decades later, this spin has become, in the eyes of many US political figures, |
| 0:58.0 | set in stone policy, a view that ultimately leads to the demonization of Islam as a religion. |
| 1:04.7 | We have in Donald Trump, a president who has openly espoused sympathy for white supremacists. |
| 1:11.3 | He is attempted to ban Muslims from entering the United States because they are Muslim, |
| 1:16.6 | and he said he supports the killing of the families of suspected terrorists. |
| 1:21.0 | Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United |
| 1:27.2 | States. |
| 1:29.2 | Trump doesn't talk about all victims equally, and he is consistently refused to apply the |
| 1:43.2 | gutter talk that he engages in when the shooter is a Muslim to white people who commit acts |
| 1:48.5 | of terrorism, or when the victims are Muslims. |
| 1:51.9 | In fact, Trump consistently denies the very facts that the whole world is witness to, including |
| 1:58.3 | the fact that extremist white supremacist violence is on the rise. |
| 2:02.7 | But not all of those people were neo-Nazis, believe me, not all of those people were white |
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