The Continuing Threat of White Extremism
The Lawfare Podcast
The Lawfare Institute
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🗓️ 13 April 2021
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
From the countless attacks on ethnic and religious minorities that have taken place in recent months to the January 6 riot on Capitol Hill, acts of violence and domestic terrorism are on the rise here in the United States. And a major driver behind many of these actions is a growing hostility toward members of racial and religious minorities among white Americans and a growing willingness to turn to violence as a result.
Last week, the Lawfare team was hosted by the National Security Law Society at the Georgetown University Law Center for a live discussion of what this disturbing trend means for U.S. national security. Lawfare editor-in-chief Benjamin Wittes, Lawfare deputy managing editor Jacob Schulz and Lawfare senior editor Scott R. Anderson joined Elizabeth Neumann, a former senior official in the Department of Homeland Security during the Trump administration, and Ryan Greer, the national security director for the Anti-Defamation League, to discuss how white extremism and domestic terrorism relate to each other, what's driving radicalization among white Americans and steps the Biden administration, among others, can take to combat it.
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| 0:25.6 | no bull and the aftermath. |
| 0:34.0 | When you're talking about 10 million people and by the way, there's no way to know which |
| 0:38.2 | of the 50 million that believe that the election was stolen are the 10 million that think |
| 0:44.6 | violence is justified. |
| 0:45.6 | Like, there's just no way for us to be able to track nor should we. |
| 0:49.5 | That's not the government's job to track and police thought. |
| 0:53.0 | So we need to reduce the pool of people that are vulnerable to radicalization, people |
| 0:57.8 | that are radicalized, so that law enforcement has a shot at hopefully detecting and disrupting |
| 1:03.9 | a threat before it occurs. |
| 1:05.8 | Super challenging environment we're in. |
| 1:08.5 | We had a shooting yesterday, we had another day. |
| 1:11.4 | This is just going to continue, unfortunately, for the near future for a variety of reasons. |
| 1:15.7 | But need to get started on prevention and hopefully in a few years it helps us reduce these |
| 1:21.0 | attacks. |
| 1:22.0 | I'm Scott Arr Anderson and this is the LawFair podcast for April 13th, 2021. |
| 1:28.3 | From the countless attacks on ethnic and religious minorities that have taken place in recent |
| 1:31.8 | months to the January 6th riot on Capitol Hill, acts of violence and domestic terrorism |
| 1:37.1 | are on the rise here in the United States. |
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