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The Dark Heart of White Nationalism w/ Journalist Vegas Tenold

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4.31.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2018

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

For six years, journalist Vegas Tenold embedded himself among the members of three of America's most ideologically extreme white nationalist groups including the KKK, neonazis, and the Traditionalist Workers Party. He reveals how this self-described Norwegian socialist managed to gain access to some of the worst hate groups in America, and why he says the most dangerous groups aren’t the KKK or neonazis, but a new class of well organized activists seeking to take their hateful ideology mainstream. He recalls covering the notorious Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville and explains why law enforcement was partly to blame for the violence. He talks about some of the dog whistles that politicians use to signal fidelity with white nationalists, his experience watching the 2016 election returns with the head of the Traditionalist Workers Party, and why he says these groups are ultimately doomed to fail. Plus the dangers of being a bald white Norwegian at a skinhead rally. Order Everything You Love Will Burn: Inside the Rebirth of White Nationalism in America on Amazon or Audible and follow Vegas Tenold on twitter at @vegastenold. Today's episode was sponsored by Everquote, Grasshopper, and Zyppah. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hi, I'm Ben Mathis, welcome to Kickass News.

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Six years ago, journalist Vegas Tennelled embedded himself among the members of three of America's

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most ideologically extreme white nationalist groups, the KKK, the National Socialist

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Movement, and the Traditionalist Workers' Party.

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At the time, these groups were part of a disorganized counterculture that felt far from

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the mainstream, but since then, all that's changed.

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Racially motivated violence has been on open display at rallies in Charlottesville, Berkeley,

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Pikesville, Phoenix, and Boston.

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