The Era of Shitposting White Nationalist Terrorism

Angry Planet

Matthew Gault

War, Politics, Conflict, Government, History, News

4.3 • 882 Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2019

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

On March 15, a shooter entered two Mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. He killed fifty and injured 50 more. He left behind a bizarre and meme-laden manifesto. In February, authorities arrested a Coast Guard lieutenant who had been stockpiling weapons in anticipation of kicking off a race war. When it comes to terrorism, America’s problems are overwhelmingly white and nationalist. In terms or raw numbers, it’s not even close.

With us here today to talk about our collective white nationalism problem is Robert Evans. Evans is a conflict journalist who has reported on the fighting in Ukraine and Mosul, the host of Behind the Bastards—a podcast that explores the origin stories of the worst people in history, and and author of fine articles at Bellingcat where he charts the growth of online fueled right-wing terrorism. It’s the subject of his forthcoming audiobook—The War on Everyone.

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0:20.0	Just wanted to jump in here briefly to say that after we recorded this episode,
0:24.5	Facebook announced it was banning mentions of white nationalism and white separatism
0:29.2	from its platform.
0:30.5	It had already banned mention of white supremacy, but saw a distinction in separatism and nationalism.
0:37.0	Facebook no longer recognizes that distinction.
0:40.0	Thank you. Here's the show.
0:42.0	Start off with the voice of the lovely Robert Evans. Thank you. Thank you. Here's the show.
0:43.0	Start off with the voice of the lovely Robert Evans.
0:45.0	I would say the manifesto had two equal purposes.
0:48.1	One of them was to serve as a trap and to journalists and a trap to sort of the the global media and law enforcement
0:55.0	to confuse and distract them and essentially focus the discussion of the
1:01.3	shooting around this guy and his ideas even more than it was already
1:06.2	going to be. I would say an equal purpose of the manifesto was to entertain and inspire members of 8 chans poll board. You're listening to War College, a weekly podcast that brings you the stories from behind the
1:30.1	front lines.
1:31.6	Here are your hosts. Hello, welcome to War College. I'm Matthew Galt. And I'm Derek Gannin.
1:49.6	And I'm Kevin Nodell. On March 15th, a shooter entered two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand.
1:55.8	He killed 50 and injured 50 more. He left behind a bizarre and meme-laden manifesto.
2:01.9	In February, just a month prior, authorities arrested a Coast Guard lieutenant who had been stockpiling weapons in anticipation of kicking off a race war.
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