#1394 White Terrorism and Willful Ignorance
Best of the Left - Leftist Perspectives on Progressive Politics, News, Culture, Economics and Democracy
Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 27 January 2021
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Air Date 1/26/2021
Today we take a look at our long history of ignoring domestic, right-wing terrorism from the Oklahoma City bombing through to the predictable actions of militia groups in 2020 and beyond.
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SHOW NOTES
Ch. 1: Tracing the roots of the America's biggest domestic terror attack - PBS News Hour - Air Date 2-17-20
The 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing was the largest act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history. A new documentary on the PBS series American Experience takes a fresh look at the events and motivations that led to the attack by Timothy McVeigh
Ch. 2: The Dangers of White Supremacy - It's Been a Minute with Sam Sanders - Air Date 10-2-20
Sam talks with Kathleen Belew, assistant professor of history at the University of Chicago, about what we get wrong when we talk about the white power movement.
While working as a senior analyst in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in 2009, Daryl Johnson authored a report warning about the increasing dangers of violent right-wing extremism in the United States, sparking a political firestorm in the process
Ch. 4: How the Oklahoma City Bombing Changed the U.S. - AJ+ - Air Date 2-26-19
In the almost 25 years since explosives killed 168 adults and children, what has the United States learned from the Oklahoma City bombing? And what can it tell us about the future of far-right extremism in the U.S.?
Ch. 5: Most Violence is Right Wing. Period. Stop Lying - David Pakman Show - Air Date 8-22-19
Most violence is right wing, and it's important not to be distracted from that undeniable reality.
The government must wake up to the threat of domestic terrorism before it's too late, says former Homeland Security counterterrorism analyst Daryl Johnson.
Ch. 7: What’s Fueling Far-Right Hate in America? - AJ+ - Air Date 2-19-19
The number of far-right extremist groups prone to violence is increasing in the U.S. It's a threat the government was warned about a decade ago. But what's fueling the rise of hate, and what's the nation doing to combat it?
Former Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson discusses what the Biden administration's national security team will have to undertake.
MEMBERS-ONLY BONUS CLIP(S)
To talk about the rise of white supremacist violence and the Trump administration’s response, we speak to Daryl Johnson, a former senior analyst in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
No one listened when the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI sounded the alarm about the rise of white supremacist and far-right domestic terrorism, says former DHS intelligence analyst Daryl Johnson and Greg Huffman of Facing South.
VOICEMAILS
Ch. 11: We made it! (But not all of us) - Nick from California
Ch. 12: The cause and result of moral panic - Paul from Vermont
FINAL COMMENTS
Ch. 13: Final comments on moral panic and the shifting eras of white supremacist violence
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| 0:19.7 | And now, welcome to this episode of the award-winning Best of the Left podcast, in which we shall |
| 0:24.7 | learn about our long history of ignoring domestic right-wing terrorism from the Oklahoma City |
| 0:30.8 | bombing through to the predictable actions of militia groups in 2020 and beyond. |
| 0:36.5 | Clips today are from the PBS NewsHour. |
| 0:39.2 | It's been a minute with Sam Sanders, Democracy Now, AJ Plus, The David Pakman Show, The |
| 0:45.4 | Washington Post, MSNBC, and The Real News. |
| 0:58.7 | April 1995. |
| 1:01.0 | A writer rental truck with 5,000 pounds of explosives ripped through the Alfred P. Mara |
| 1:09.4 | Federal Building in Oklahoma City. 168 people were killed, 19 children among them. |
| 1:20.2 | I knew very little of the story. |
| 1:21.9 | I remember a lot of people remember that day and the image of that building, with its face |
| 1:28.7 | blown off, an image that we weren't used to or accustomed to at the time. |
| 1:32.7 | Barrett Goodman is director of the film, Oklahoma City. |
| 1:36.2 | Wow, I think a lot of people remember this as a simple story of a lone terrorist committing |
| 1:41.2 | an act. |
| 1:42.2 | It actually has very deep roots. |
| 1:44.1 | And when we pulled on those roots, a whole, a whole other story sort of appeared. |
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