The Kids are Alt-right – What’s radicalising a new generation of extremists?

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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🗓️ 16 January 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Young people, particularly young men, are increasingly becoming radicalised toward the far-right. Often chronically online and extremely vulnerable to manipulation, just how big of a risk do they pose? And what can be done about it? Alex Andreou joins Cynthia Miller-Idriss, founding director of the Polarisation and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab (PERIL) at the American University in Washington, DC, in The Bunker. • “The far-right is really a spectrum for supremacist ideologies; which include white, christian, western, or misogynist supremacies, but also anti-government and anti-democratic supremacies.” – Cynthia Miller-Idriss • “The real shift we are seeing now compared to previous generations is that, where you used to have to be taken by the arm and invited by an individual to join a group, now all of that propaganda comes right to you online.” – Cynthia Miller-Idriss www.patreon.com/bunkercast Presented by Alex Andreou. Producer: Eliza Davis Beard. Audio production: Alex Rees. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. Music by Kenny Dickinson. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:19.7	right-wing terrorism. Out of 186 such arrests, 20 were children, and of those 20, 19 were linked
1:31.0	to far-right ideologies. We are talking about boys, principally 14, 15 years old,
1:37.2	said the head of counter-terrorism mad jukes, substantially younger than we have seen in the past.
1:43.0	It is a well-trodent generalization that young people gravitate to left-wing politics and gradually move away from them.
1:51.0	But all across Europe, there is a perception that the current surge of the
1:55.0	far right is increasingly fueled by young men. Is that true? If it is, why is it
2:01.9	happening and what can be done to change it?
2:04.4	My guest today is a scholar of the topic of radicalization.
2:07.8	She's the founding director of the Polarization and Extremism Research and Innovation Lab at the American University in Washington, D.C.
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