Charlottesville: One Year Later

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🗓️ 10 August 2018

⏱️ 51 minutes

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It’s been a year since the violence of the “Unite the Right” rally and the political turmoil of its aftermath. How did Charlottesville change the country? Has the alt-right withered under the new scrutiny or grown amidst the new visibility? And what responsibility do tech platforms have to stop the spread of hateful ideologies? Links - "The White Nationalists Are Winning" (Adam Serwer, August 10, 2018) - “White threat in a browning America” (Ezra Klein, Vox, July 30, 2018) - “The Hate Report: The alt-right is down, but not out” (Will Carless and Aaron Sankin, Reveal, June 1, 2018) - “The Defense That Failed White Nationalists” (Adam Serwer, May 10, 2018) - “The Lost Boys” (Angela Nagle, December 2017 Issue) - “The Hoods Are Off” (Matt Thompson, August 12, 2017) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's been a year since white supremacist marched through the streets of Charlottesville, Virginia.
0:05.6	A year since Heather Hire, a young woman protesting against the march of the so-called Alt-Write,
0:10.9	was brutally killed by one of those demonstrators and a year since America's
0:15.3	president initially declined to condemn them. How have those events in Charlottesville
0:20.0	changed America? What hasn't changed at all? This is Radio Atlantic. Hi, I'm Matt Thompson, Executive Editor of The Atlantic.
0:45.0	With me from New York is my co-host, my esteemed co-host, Alex Wagner.
0:50.0	Hello, Alex.
0:52.0	Matt, it's great to hear your voice.
0:53.6	Happy Summer.
0:54.6	Great to hear yours and happy summer to you.
0:57.6	Our other esteemed co-host Jeff Goldberg is off Galavanting.
1:00.6	However, with me in DC are two of our in-est-mobile colleagues, senior editor
1:06.2	Jillian White. Hi Matt. Hi Jillian.
1:09.0	Wamp, Wamp! And her deputy politics editor Adam Serwer.
1:14.0	Hello Adam.
1:15.4	Hey Matt.
1:16.4	Hey Alex.
1:18.0	Thanks for having me.
1:18.8	It's great.
1:19.8	Thanks for joining us guys.
1:21.0	It's great to have me.
1:22.0	Yes, and thank you for joining us for this light-hearted topic. A year ago, this weekend, on August 11th and 12th, 2018, demonstrators from a cluster of white supremacist and white nationalist groups the quote unquote
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