The Rising Danger Of Extremism In America

Our Body Politic

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🗓️ 8 September 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

One of the biggest threats facing Americans today…is extremism. What can be done to combat the rising danger of extremist events in the United States? On this episode of Our Body Politic, host Farai Chideya, speaks with Kristofer Goldsmith, founder and CEO of Taskforce Butler, about engaging veterans in the fight against extremism. Then Farai gets a debrief from journalist and Our Body Politic team member Joanne Levine, who attended the Mom’s For Liberty Annual Summit. They’re an organization that has been designated to have “racist” and “extremist ties. We round the show out with our Sippin’ the Political Tea roundtable that includes Robert P. Jones, the president and founder of the Public Religion Research Institute and Anthea Butler, the Geraldine R. Segal Professor in American Social Thought and chair of the department of Religious Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, about the connections between religion, race, politics and violence.

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1:14.1	Welcome to Our Body Politics. I'm the creator and host Farai Chidea. The insurrection on
1:20.4	January 6 was a large scale example of the extremism plaguing our country. On the show, we'll
1:26.0	hear about the effort to curb extremism by veterans,
1:29.0	how a group of moms has ties to extremist groups and the reality behind political violence.
1:34.5	Recent data from the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, and more,
1:38.5	shows an increase in mass casualty events linked to extremist views and more active clubs,
1:45.4	sometimes described as white supremacist fight clubs, are publicly showing hatred and intentionally targeting marginalized groups.
1:51.5	Last month in Jacksonville, Florida, a white man donning swastikas on his assault rifle
1:55.8	took the lives of three black people in the name of racial hate. This month, sentencing continues for those who
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