#1295 How Fascism Uses White Supremacy to Delegitimize Non-Whites and Enrich the Wealthy
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 7 August 2019
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Air Date: 8/06/2019
Today we take a look at the racist attacks by Trump and his supporters against "The Squad" and how those attacks are in line with a long tradition of working to delegitimize and silence the perspectives of non-whites in America
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: A Racist By Any Other Name - Backtalk with Amy Lam and Dahlia Balcazar - Air Date 7-25-19
Trump's racism towards the squad is actually being called racism by some media outlets, and we need to keep calling it out.
Trump is 21st-century fascism, filled with toxic masculinity, nationalism and white supremacy.
Trump and his racist are an ongoing attack on democracy, and its very loud, white supremacy.
Ch. 4: Why "Send Her Back" Reverberated So Loudly - On the Media - Air Date 7-19-19
Ibram X. Kendi, founding director of American University’s Antiracist Research and Policy Center, considers a different line of inquiry: who gets to be American? Kendi and Brooke talk about how the president's comments have plenty of precedent in history.
Trump is doubling down on racist attacks aimed at the congresswomen of color, he is propping up white supremacy and using fear tactics.
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| 0:31.1 | Now welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of Left podcast, in which we shall learn |
| 0:35.6 | about the racist attacks by Trump and his supporters against the squad and how those attacks |
| 0:41.6 | are in line with a long tradition of delegitimizing and silencing the perspectives of non-whites |
| 0:47.7 | in America. |
| 0:49.2 | Before we get started though, here's just a few thoughts to take with you. |
| 0:53.1 | We're going to hear reference, not right away, toward the end of the show, to Henry |
| 0:58.8 | Wallace's article on fascism in America. |
| 1:02.7 | And if you have not heard of Henry Wallace, I don't blame you, he was one of FDR's vice |
| 1:07.0 | presidents, and he was quite progressive for his time, and he wrote an article, sort of |
| 1:12.8 | an op-ed in the New York Times, and he was talking about the dangers of how fascism could |
| 1:19.0 | come to America. |
| 1:20.0 | Obviously, he was living through a time of fascism in Europe, and so he was trying to warn |
| 1:24.3 | people about what fascism may look like when it comes here, because it wouldn't look |
| 1:29.9 | the same, it was his point. |
| 1:32.1 | It would come wrapped in the American flag, it would come with Christianity as its call |
| 1:40.4 | to action. |
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