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The views expressed on this podcast are those of the participants, not of Reuters News. But I think people can find this in almost any religious or secular belief system, you know, and we have examples of people who have used terrorism and violence from

Buddhists to Christians, fromists to anti-abortion activists. We as human beings

are pretty good at demonizing the other and viewing them as subhuman and then using

violence against them. You're listening to Reuters War College, a discussion of the world in conflict, focusing on the stories behind the front

lines.

Hello. Hello and welcome to War College. I'm your host Matthew Galt. With me today is

Joseph Young. Young is professor at American University in Washington, D.C. and a contributing editor at the website

Political Violence at a glance. Joe, thank you so much for joining us.

Thank you, Matthew.

All right, so we're currently living in an era of renewed political violence, especially in America.

Left-wing Antifa groups set fires and smashed windows while right-wing malicious plan to blow up apartment buildings.

And on both sides, disaffected men turned to violence

to solve problems.

Joe, that's kind of why I wanted to have you on the show, and my first question is,

do you think political violence is on the rise in America or are people just paying attention to it more?

Yeah, so I think the first thing we have to take apart is that if we look at this differently between kind of long-term violence versus short-term violence.

And in the long-term, if we were looking at, you know, a hundred years, violence has definitely

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