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Explain It to Me

Domestic terrorism after El Paso

Explain It to Me

Vox Media Podcast Network

Politics, Society & Culture, Education, News

4.48K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

ProPublica’s Dara Lind joins Jane and Matt to talk about the mass shooting in El Paso and what it means to take white nationalist violence seriously. Recommended reading: “The top House Republican is blaming video games for the weekend’s mass shootings” by Jane Coaston, Vox “A question for conservatives: what if the left was right on race?” by Jane Coaston, Vox “Crush This Evil” by The Editors, National Review “Who are the Trenchcoat Mafia?” BBC News “Columbine: Whose Fault Is It?” by Marilyn Manson, Rolling Stone “Network exposure and excessive use of force” by Marie Ouellet et al, Criminology & Public Policy (white paper) Join the Weeds Facebook group! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Christy Carlson Romano has made a bunch of content all about the dark side of

0:05.3

childhood fame which makes her unlike a lot of other former child stars but

0:10.9

she's fine with that. People are in their trauma. You cannot rush them out of it.

0:15.6

When we ask like you know why are they coming forward I can't assume to know why

0:21.0

unfortunately I can only sweep my side of the street. Christy Carlson Romano on

0:26.9

life after Disney. This week on Into It, Vultures Pop Culture Podcast.

0:33.9

What on earth is that? What are you doing Jeff? That makes a crazy noise.

0:40.5

Hello, welcome to another episode of the Weeds on the Box and Media Podcast

0:55.7

Network. I'm Matthew Eclacius here with Jane

0:57.6

Kostin and Dara Lind. We had sort of originally planned to talk about something

1:03.0

else but over the weekend mass shootings in Dayton, Ohio and in particular in

1:08.8

El Paso, Texas have brought back to the fore a lot of debates about guns and

1:14.2

gun control that we've been having on and off for years in this country but

1:19.0

also I think seem to have focused attention in a clearer way than we've seen in

1:25.5

the past on the sort of ideological white supremacist white nationalist

1:32.1

ideology that appears to have motivated the El Paso shooter although I think not

1:36.5

the Ohio shooter but also several other killings. I mean, dating back to the

1:41.9

the church shooting in South Carolina years ago but I think it is coming into

1:48.0

view for people that this has become a pattern with an ideological inflection

1:54.8

and some element of copycat that this is now a prescribed formula that a

2:01.1

person brought into a certain worldview might look at some of these other

2:05.7

killings and say to themselves like these guys were on the right track in

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