Hating In Plain Sight

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4.6 • 8.7K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2019

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

Two opposing views on how to cover white supremacy; hate group archivists debate how to understand evil without spreading it; and more.

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0:00.0	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.
0:03.9	Brooke Gladstone is off this week.
0:06.1	I'm Bob Garfield.
0:08.0	At least 49 people are dead this morning, dozens others injured.
0:11.6	This time, it was on the other side of the world.
0:14.2	A mass shooting at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand.
0:17.9	49 people killed in a shooting massacre at two mosques, the gunman live streaming the horror.
0:23.3	Not Pittsburgh, not Charleston, not Santa Barbara, not Jeffersontown, Kentucky.
0:29.1	But it was as familiar as it was distant.
0:32.5	White man, anger, racial hatred, guns, death.
0:37.4	It was like traveling someplace exotic and finding
0:40.6	a McDonald's terrorism as American franchise, with all the uniformity that goes with it.
0:49.3	Horror, tears, and even before the victims are identified, the search for answers.
0:54.7	Why, why, why, why would you do this? Why he did it, I don't think we'll ever really know.
0:59.0	I mean, the depths of his mind is, it's impossible to understand.
1:03.2	No, not really. We knew immediately, because as the franchise operator's guide dictates,
1:09.4	the killer told us.
1:11.3	The suspect posted a racist manifesto online.
1:14.8	Of course a manifesto.
1:16.8	And his manifesto talked about the fact that he saw President Trump as a symbol for
1:21.1	renewed white identity.
1:22.3	He's trolling.
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