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Notes from America with Kai Wright

The New, Old White Supremacist Movement

Notes from America with Kai Wright

WNYC Studios

News Commentary, Politics, History, News

4.41.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2017

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

At the height of the election season last September, Hillary Clinton called Donald Trump’s supporters a “basket of deplorables.” The comments spread like wildfire, and the next day, Clinton walked them back. Yet the sentiment that a new movement of white nationalists was growing is true. Kai Wright takes a look at the so-called “basket of deplorables” and the alt-right movement that has emerged in recent years, from neo-Nazis to people fighting in the so-called “war on men.” He also chats with Note to Self's Manoush Zomorodi and Kat Aaron about how white supremacists are arming themselves online. “The goal is just chaos. The goal is to shut down civic discourse to make spaces where people are discussing important topics just so toxic that most people shut down,” said Aaron. Episode Contributors: Kai Wright Jessica Miller Karen Frillmann The United States of Anxiety is hosted by Kai Wright and produced by WNYC Studios. Listen to more shows from WNYC Studios: http://wny.cc/yzc4304odXp 
WNYC Studios is the producer of other leading podcasts including Freakonomics, Radiolab, Here's The Thing with Alec Baldwin and many more.

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0:00.0

This week we're dealing with a culture war that involves some really ugly stuff in language in ideas and in actions

0:07.8

So if you're not in the space to hear that right now, maybe save this one for later but do listen. This is the homework

0:18.0

that everybody has to do tonight. When the media, the hoax media and the

0:21.8

Clinton News Network goes after people tomorrow.

0:24.6

You have to be locked and loaded with the memes.

0:28.3

This is Mike Cernovich, and he's addressing his followers on a video the day before Hillary Clinton plans to give a speech about racism and Donald Trump's campaign.

0:37.0

Tomorrow Hillary is going to say, there's this thing out there called the alt-right and they are racist, the neo-Nazi anti-Semites.

0:46.0

Clinton's team had said that she was going to go there.

0:50.0

And Surnevich wanted anyone who identified with the alt-right to be ready.

0:54.0

He had already posted tons of these long rambling rants to the video sharing at Periscope.

0:59.0

But this one is a call to action and a how-to for gaming the news media whenever we start asking questions about racism.

1:09.0

Rule number one.

1:10.0

You need an answer for everything they're going to say an answer can't put you on the defense.

1:15.0

When they say the all never play defense that's crucial.

1:19.0

Rule number two. I'm rubber, your glue, whatever you say bounces off of me and sticks to you.

1:26.0

When the media says the alt-right hates Jews, then you know what I say?

1:32.0

Oh really, isn't interesting that rabbis in New York

1:36.0

are being knocked out by black teenagers who are associated with Black Lives

1:39.5

Matter?

1:40.2

That's absurd, but his point is, if accuses you of something throw it back at them.

1:45.0

And that sets up rule number three.

1:47.0

Totally change the subject with an outrageous counter accusation.

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