Hate in the homeland
Reveal
The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX
4.7 • 218 Ratings
🗓️ 8 June 2019
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
This episode surveys the state of the hate movement in America, focusing on how hate groups are spreading their message and winning converts.
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| 0:00.0 | From the Center for Investigative Reporting in PRX, this is Reveal. |
| 0:09.4 | I'm Al Etzen. |
| 0:11.2 | And if you like me, the last couple years, you felt this rising sense of dread when watching |
| 0:18.6 | the news. |
| 0:19.6 | Mass shootings by white supremacists, violent rallies, opinion shows regurgitating white |
| 0:24.8 | nationalist talking points, and of course, social media. |
| 0:28.8 | The new frontier of extremism, it is everywhere. |
| 0:33.4 | Reveal has been covering these movements, and for the next two weeks, we're taking a |
| 0:37.2 | deep dive into hate, examining institutional racism, and also the hidden methods terrorists |
| 0:43.7 | use to spread hate like a virus. |
| 0:48.0 | This march, a gunman massacre dozens of Muslim worshipers in Christchurch, New Zealand. |
| 0:53.5 | Megan Squire was in her car, headed back to her home in North Carolina when she heard |
| 0:57.8 | the news. |
| 0:58.8 | And I heard two different newscasters flipping back and forth between the news stations. |
| 1:02.4 | And one of them said they saw an 83-page manifesto or something like that. |
| 1:05.6 | The other one said a 70-something page manifesto. |
| 1:07.6 | And I went, oh, what's going on here? |
| 1:09.6 | There's multiple versions. |
| 1:11.0 | Megan is a computer scientist and professor at Elon University. |
| 1:15.0 | A few years ago, she was researching, well, boring things, like software developers. |
| 1:20.3 | No offense. |
| 1:21.8 | The software work ended. |
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