The Dig: The Roots of White Power Violence With Kathleen Belew
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🗓️ 7 November 2018
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Summary
The man who carried out the massacre in Pittsburgh was motivated by a belief that Jewish people were conspiring to destroy the white race by way of orchestrating mass immigration. It's a conspiracy theory with deep roots in America's violent white power movement and that today is echoed by Trump and Fox News. Dan interviews Kathleen Belew on her book Bring The War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America, a history of the white power revolutionary movement from 1975–1995.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our listeners who support us at patreon.com |
| 0:05.0 | and by Verso Books, which has loads of great left-wing titles, |
| 0:10.0 | perfect for Dig listeners like you. |
| 0:13.0 | One that you might like is City of Segregation |
| 0:16.0 | 100 years of struggle for housing in Los Angeles |
| 0:20.0 | by Andrea Gibbons. |
| 0:22.0 | City of Segregation documents 100 years of struggle against the enforced separation of racial groups |
| 0:28.4 | through property markets, constructions of community, and the growth of neoliberalism. |
| 0:34.1 | This movement history covers the decades of work to end legal support for segregation in |
| 0:38.4 | 1948, the 1960 Civil Rights Movement and Corps effort to integrate L.A.'s white suburbs. And the 2006 |
| 0:46.4 | victory, preserving 10,000 downtown residential hotel units from gentrification, enfolded with an ongoing resistance to the criminalization |
| 0:55.6 | and displacement of the homeless. |
| 0:58.0 | Andrea Gibbons reveals the shape and nature of the racist ideology that must be fought in Los Angeles and across the United States |
| 1:06.9 | if we hope to found just cities. City of segregation, 100 years of struggle for housing in Los Angeles, by Andrea Gibbons, |
| 1:16.2 | out now from Jacobin magazine. My name is Daniel Denver and I'm |
| 1:32.3 | broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island. |
| 1:35.0 | A man walked into Pittsburgh's Tree of Life Synagogue and massacred 11 Jews. |
| 1:40.0 | He was apparently motivated by a belief that Jewish people are conspiring to destroy the white race by way of orchestrating mass immigration. |
| 1:49.0 | In particular, he focused his ire on High-AS, the Jewish Refugee Resettlement Agency. |
| 1:55.5 | He wrote, quote, HIAS likes to bring invaders that kill our people. |
| 1:59.7 | I can't sit by and watch my people get slaughtered. |
| 2:02.7 | Screw your optics, I'm going in. |
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