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Hello, everyone.

Hello everyone, welcome to Factually.

I'm your host Adam Conover, and today, let's talk about white supremacy. I know I know it's a tough one but you know based on the events of the last year or two I think we got to do it. In 1992 a white supremacist named Louis Beam published an essay called

Leaderless Resistance. His big idea, which had a lot of currency in the pale and pasty circles of white nationalists at the time

was that white supremacists should take action on their own or in small groups without taking

orders from any leadership.

See, he figured that if white supremacist used

any form of formal hierarchical organization,

it would be too easy for the government to come in and bust it up,

cut the head off the snake, and the body will die, right?

So, instead of snakes, leaderless resistance

advocated that white nationalists should be more like worms,

or I guess even more like worms.

Either way it's fitting. instead of there being anyone in charge

Leaderless resistance advocated that there be cells which coordinated loosely with each other

sharing information through newspapers and computers so that if one cell was

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