TransLash Presents: No Such Thing As A Lone Wolf
TransLash Podcast with Imara Jones
TransLash Media
4.3 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2024
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
In Episode 3 of the Anti-Trans Hate Machine, Imara Jones explores how paramilitary groups like Patriot Front are modernizing and intensifying their anti-LGBTQ tactics. Working in tandem with local politicians, right-wing think tanks, and influential online actors like Libs of Tik-Tok, these groups are radicalizing American politics from the ground up, weaponizing transphobia to destabilize local communities. In this episode we’ll show how these dangerous synergies are spreading and learn about how Idaho is the testing ground for this new wave of far-right extremism, raising urgent questions about the future of democracy in America.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, fam, it's me, Amara. |
| 0:11.0 | Against the backdrop of the election, for the last year, I've been working on a huge investigation into far-right military groups and how anti-trans hate is the cornerstone of political violence |
| 0:22.9 | in America today. What I found is stunning and has huge implications for our country that are |
| 0:29.4 | crucial to understand as we head into the last days of the election. Right now, I'm going to share |
| 0:36.2 | the third and final episode of this series, |
| 0:38.3 | which does end on a hopeful note with concrete ways to chart a different course. You can |
| 0:44.8 | binge listen to the full season right here or subscribe right now to the anti-trans hate machine |
| 0:50.8 | wherever you get your podcast. |
| 1:21.6 | Under the cover of darkness, a 20-year-old white man slinks through the wooded area of the community church of Chesterland, a half-hour east of Cleveland, Ohio. He crosses a grassy clearing that opens up to the small church. Around him, the smell of gasoline and alcohol mixes in the air. |
| 1:31.7 | Rage radiates through him. |
| 1:35.3 | He can't let this play stand. |
| 1:38.3 | He places two glass bottles on the hard earth. |
| 1:42.3 | He's already stuffed both with purple and pink fabric. |
| 1:47.1 | A sign just above him in the church's window reads, |
| 1:51.0 | no matter where you are from, we're glad you're our neighbor. |
| 1:56.0 | In just a few days, families and children will gather here to watch a drag story hour. Now is his |
| 2:04.0 | time to act, to stop these events once and for all. Facing the doors of the church, he takes |
| 2:11.9 | hold of the bottles once again and sprays them with the gas and alcohol. |
| 2:20.6 | A match strikes and ignites the fabric inside. |
| 2:27.0 | He's ready to throw the crudely fashioned Molotov cocktails towards the doors of the church. |
| 2:30.9 | He hopes to burn it to the ground. |
| 2:42.0 | I'm Amara Jones, and this is the anti-trans hate machine, a plot against equality. |
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