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PREVIEW: Talia Lavin on white supremacy and antifascism

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Comedy, Government, News, Culture, Politics

4.4645 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2020

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Pete speaks to journalist Talia Lavin about her new book Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy. This is a preview of an episode available in full to our $5 Patreon subscribers. To listen to the whole episode, as well as lots of other brilliant bonus episodes, please consider becoming one of our subscribers at www.patreon.com/CurrentAffairs!

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What draws people in to protecting whiteness to like feeling that the ultimate purpose of their lives

0:07.1

is to defend the white race against its racial enemies? You know, I think it's a lot of the same

0:12.4

things that lead people to join social movements of every stripe, including like becoming,

0:18.6

you know, an empowered, thoughtful leftist. It's loneliness. It's

0:23.9

feeling like they want a greater purpose in the world. It's rage. It's a sense of alienation or

0:30.7

displacement. I mean, the power of the white power movement is that it draws on a lot of

0:35.6

universal human sentiments. You want to be

0:38.1

part of something bigger. You want to feel that you're protecting and bettering the world.

0:42.4

And of course, the white power movement says, do it through violence, do it through violence

0:46.5

against minorities, do it through violence against minorities and Jews. But the sentiments that

0:51.4

they draw on are quite universal.

0:54.3

And people can feel downtrodden and displaced and alienated while being sort of objectively

1:01.7

pretty fine and like well off.

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