#61: Bipartisan Violence
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2017
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
In the last few weeks, protests have been turning violent across the country. But who is starting the violence? Those on the far-left, far-right, or both? And what does the police response tell us about what the U.S. might become?
Hosts Maria Hinojosa and Julio Ricardo Varela lead a discussion on this and more with Farah Stockman, reporter for the New York Times, and Mike German, former FBI agent, who worked as an undercover agent among white supremacists.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of In Thethick is brought to you by 1,800 Flowers. |
| 0:04.0 | All the anger that is justifying this violence is based on we're victims, therefore our violence is justified. |
| 0:11.0 | What they're selling is victimhood, both sides. |
| 0:13.8 | Hey, welcome to In The Thick, a podcast about politics, race and culture from a POC perspective. |
| 0:22.4 | I'm Julio Rico-Lober-Ella, and I'm Maria Inuosan and I'm Maria Inu Hosa and I'm joined by Farah stockman |
| 0:26.9 | reporter for the New York Times. Welcome back Farah. |
| 0:30.0 | Hey thanks for having me and also joining us from New York is Mike German, a former FBI agent who worked as an undercover agent among white supremacist. |
| 0:39.0 | Welcome back to you too, Mike. |
| 0:41.0 | Thanks for having me again. So let's just dive into the news. We're |
| 0:45.0 | gonna start by turning to France. A lot of people were scared that this wave of |
| 0:51.0 | ethnic nationalism that we've seen with Donald Trump with Brexit might |
| 0:55.0 | spread to France? |
| 0:57.0 | Centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron appearing with his wife, celebrating a decisive victory |
| 1:01.9 | over the far-rights Marine rights Marine Le Pen winning by a landslide margin of about 30 points. |
| 1:07.0 | Lappen did get over 30% of the vote. |
| 1:10.0 | So Mike, you know, are you more worried because of the fact that there's this 30% out there in France that did vote for Le Pen? |
| 1:17.7 | Or is this a sigh of relief? |
| 1:19.8 | I think there is a sigh of relief. |
| 1:21.8 | You know, it's obviously better than the alternative but I think it demonstrates again |
| 1:26.3 | that this ethnic nationalism if you want to put it that way is still a prevalent part of the political discourse in Europe and the United States. |
| 1:39.3 | What about you, Farah, are you feeling about what happened in France? |
| 1:42.6 | Well, my friends in France are pretty relieved. |
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