(2017/06/09) The rise of hate in America (White Supremacy)
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Jay Tomlinson
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🗓️ 9 June 2017
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
Edition #1110
Today we take a look at some of the structures of white supremacy and the moment in the sun it is currently enjoying
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Show Notes
Ch. 1: Opening Theme: A Fond Farewell - From a Basement On the Hill
Ch. 2: Act 1: Hate Groups Promise Revolt If Trump Abandons White Supremacy - @RingOfFireRadio - Air Date: 12-31-16
Ch. 3: Song 1: A Dose of White Supremacy - Neffe Odom Kragh-Muller
Ch. 4: Act 2: As Confederate Monuments Come Down, the Struggle Continues - On the Media - Air Date 5-26-17
Ch. 5: Song 2: Soft Serve - Soul Coughing
Ch. 6: Act 3: Steve Bannon Loves This "Shockingly Racist" Book - @theyoungturks - Air Date: 03-08-17
Ch. 7: Song 3: Your Racist Friend - They Might Be Giants
Ch. 8: Act 4: Heidi Beirich on White Supremacist violence - CounterSpin (@FAIRmediawatch) - Air Date 6-2-17
Ch. 9: Song 4: We Are Nowhere And It's Now - Bright Eyes
Ch. 10: Act 5: Learn How to Effectively Fight & Report Hate in Your Community via @SPLCenter - Best of the Left Activism
Ch. 11: Song 5: Right to Complain - Trombone Shorty & Marc Broussard
Ch. 12: Act 6: Something Is Emerging From This Community - On the Media - Air Date 6-2-17
Voicemails
Ch. 13: How do we talk to people who's beliefs aren't based on fact? - Marguerite from North Carolina
Voicemail Music: Loud Pipes - Classics
Ch. 14: Final comments on the toxic garbage dump that is White Supremacy
Ch. 15: Bonus Clip: How to Argue - Love and Radio - Air Date 2-11-17
Closing Music: Here We Are - Everyone's in Everyone
Activism:
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Read and share SPLC's "Ten Ways to Fight Hate: A Community Response Guide"
#ReportHate crimes to SPLC at splcenter.org/reporthate
Stay informed about hate-fueled incidents across the country via SPLC's Hatewatch
EDUCATE YOURSELF
SPLC Hatewatch: Headlines for 6/7/2017 (SPLC Hatewatch)
Defiant Alt-Right “Patriots” Encounter Portland’s Simmering Anger After Train Killings (SPLC Hatewatch)
As Hate Crimes Rise, The Trump Administration Blocks Funding to Fight Domestic Extremism (Right Wing Watch)
Why Taking Down Confederate Memorials is Only a First Step (The Conversation)
Protest in the Era of Donald Trump (Huffington Post)
Written by BOTL social media/activism director Amanda Hoffman
Produced by Jay! Tomlinson
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| 0:19.1 | Now welcome to the award winning Best of the Left Podcast with clips today from Ring of |
| 0:22.8 | Fire on the media, the Young Turks and Counter-Spin. |
| 0:29.4 | The so-called alt-right is already pretty unhappy with Donald Trump. |
| 0:34.6 | And now when we say alt-right, what we really mean is the hateful fringe of the United States |
| 0:39.4 | population. |
| 0:41.0 | Those folks, the folks who helped to launch Donald Trump's political career and helped |
| 0:44.8 | to put him in office, are very mad right now because they're afraid that they may have |
| 0:48.6 | also been conned like the rest of middle America and believing that Donald Trump was actually |
| 0:54.1 | a white supremacist. |
| 0:55.2 | So they have come out and said, if Donald Trump does not stick firmly to those white supremacist |
| 1:02.4 | teachings that he espoused during his campaign, there will be a full-on revolt from the white |
| 1:09.0 | supremacist community. |
| 1:11.0 | And this is coming from people like Mark Weber, Jared Taylor, David Cole, all of whom run |
| 1:15.4 | some form of a different media outlet aimed at either denying the Holocaust, at trying |
| 1:22.8 | to expose some sort of Jewish Zionist control of the country, or just flat-out saying that |
| 1:29.1 | white people are the best people. |
| 1:31.7 | Those are the guys right now who are so mad that Donald Trump appears to be backtracking |
| 1:36.5 | when all the white supremacy he threw out during the campaign. |
| 1:40.7 | And what this story really tells us is that you cannot make the argument that Donald |
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